Canadian Institutions Established By Governors General
- Royal Society of Canada – The Marquess of Lorne
- Canada's first anti-tuberculosis association – The Earl of Minto
- The Battlefields Park – The Lord Grey
- King's Jubilee Cancer Fund – The Earl of Bessborough
- Vanier Institute of the Family – Georges Vanier
- Sauvé Foundation – Jeanne Sauvé
- The Hnatyshyn Foundation – Ray Hnatyshyn
- Institute for Canadian Citizenship – Adrienne Clarkson
- Michaëlle Jean Foundation – Michaëlle Jean
Read more about this topic: Governor General Of Canada
Famous quotes containing the words canadian, institutions, established, governors and/or general:
“We’re definite in Nova Scotia—’bout things like ships ... and fish, the best in the world.”
—John Rhodes Sturdy, Canadian screenwriter. Richard Rossen. Joyce Cartwright (Ella Raines)
“We as a nation need to be reeducated about the necessary and sufficient conditions for making human beings human. We need to be reeducated not as parents—but as workers, neighbors, and friends; and as members of the organizations, committees, boards—and, especially, the informal networks that control our social institutions and thereby determine the conditions of life for our families and their children.”
—Urie Bronfenbrenner (b. 1917)
“[Rousseau] has not had the precaution to throw any veil over his sentiments; and as he scorns to dissemble his contempt of established opinions, he could not wonder that all the zealots were in arms against him.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
“I do love this people [the French] with all my heart, and think that with a better religion and a better form of government and their present governors their condition and country would be most enviable.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“There was not a tree as far as we could see, and that was many miles each way, the general level of the upland being about the same everywhere. Even from the Atlantic side we overlooked the Bay, and saw to Manomet Point in Plymouth, and better from that side because it was the highest.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)