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On June 4, 1979, Hnatyshyn was sworn into the Queen's Privy Council for Canada [2] and served as a minister of the Crown in two non-successive governments until 1988. He was appointed governor general by Queen Elizabeth II in 1989, on the recommendation of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.
Jan 14, 2008 · Described as a “man of the people,” the affable Ray Hnatyshyn opened the grounds of Rideau Hall to Canadians and made the office of governor general more genial and approachable than it had been under his predecessor. He called his appointment the greatest honour possible for an “average Canadian.”. Ray Hnatyshyn.
Dec 23, 2002 · Ray Hnatyshyn was right for the times. Good-humoured when the country was sadly out of humour, simple when, for a while, the politicians were pretending the country was so complicated only...
Mar 17, 2003 · Ray HNATYSHYN, the former Conservative cabinet minister and governor general who died last week at 68, was just such a creature. Politics was in his blood, or at least imbibed at the dinner table. His father John, later Canada's first senator of Ukrainian extraction, was a Saskatoon chum of John Diefenbaker.
Ramon John Hnatyshyn was a Canadian lawyer and statesman who served as governor general of Canada, the 24th since Canadian Confederation.
The Hnatyshyn Foundation Mid-Career Award for Excellence in Visual Arts is awarded annually to a Canadian mid-career artist who has demonstrated excellence and innovation in their body of work and who shows promise of outstanding artistic achievement in the years ahead.
As Governor General of Canada from 1990-1995, Ray and Gerda Hnatyshyn were celebrated for bringing a friendly, approachable energy to the role and Rideau Hall. They founded the Governor General’s Summer Concert Series, reopened a historic skating rink, started the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award and an award for volunteerism in the ...
