• The 1949 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were the 14th rendition of the Governor General's Awards, Canada's annual national awards program...
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  • The Governor General's Awards are a collection of annual awards presented by the governor general of Canada, recognizing distinction in numerous academic...
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  • one of fourteen Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit, seven each for creators of English- and French-language books. The awards was created by...
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  • The 1948 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were the 13th rendition of the Governor General's Awards, Canada's annual national awards program...
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  • The winners of the 1998 Governor General's Literary Awards were announced by Jean-Louis Roux, Chairman, and Shirley L. Thomson, Director of the Canada...
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  • written in English. It is one of four children's book awards among the Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit, one each for writers and illustrators...
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    The Governor General's Horse Guards is an armoured cavalry regiment in the Primary Reserve of the Canadian Army. The regiment is part of 4th Canadian Division's...
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  • 2015-08-18. "Governor General's Literary Awards". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2015-08-18. "Win Governor-General's Literary Awards". Victoria Times-Colonist...
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  • fourteen Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit, seven each for creators of English- and French-language books. The Governor General's Awards program...
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  • following is a list of the governors and governors general of Canada. Though the present-day office of the Governor General of Canada is legislatively...
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  • awards. The poetry or drama award was introduced one year later, as one of three 1937 Governor General's Awards. "Governor General's Literary Awards"...
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    American South, patterned after Louisiana Governor Huey Long. Released by Columbia Pictures on November 8, 1949, the film received widespread acclaim from...
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    in Montreal. See 1949 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. Stephen Leacock Award: Angeline Hango,...
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  • and presented separately, in early years the award was announced as part of the Governor General's Awards announcements, later moving to a separate announcement...
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    Hugh MacLennan (category Governor General's Award-winning fiction writers)
    professor of English at McGill University. He won five Governor General's Awards and a Royal Bank Award. MacLennan was born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, on March...
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    at any time advise the Queen to terminate the Governor-General's commission, the Governor-General had a right to dismiss the Government without advance...
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    The governor-general of Australia is the head of the executive branch of the federal government, serving as the representative of the Australian monarch...
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    the Governor-General Aide-de-camp to the Governor-General Maha Mudaliyar (Head Mudaliyar) Office Assistant, Governor-General's office The Governor-General...
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  • Darrel J. McLeod (category Governor General's Award-winning non-fiction writers)
    and sexual abuse, won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction at the 2018 Governor General's Awards and was a shortlisted finalist...
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    Sandra Mason (category Governors-general of Barbados)
    appointed the 8th governor-general of Barbados, with a term beginning on 8 January 2018. Simultaneously with her appointment, Mason was awarded the Dame Grand...
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  • bestseller, and was shortlisted for the 1998 Giller Prize and the 1998 Governor General's Award for English fiction. In 2003, Justin Trudeau championed the book...
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  • Laura Salverson (category Governor General's Award-winning fiction writers)
    of a 1937 Governor General's Award Black Lace (1938) Confessions of an Immigrant's Daughter (1939), winner of a 1939 Governor General's Award Immortal...
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    Winston Dugan, 1st Baron Dugan of Victoria (category Governors of South Australia)
    and 1949, was a British administrator and a career British Army officer. He served as Governor of South Australia from 1934 to 1939, then Governor of Victoria...
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    Salehuddin Ahmed (born 1949) is a Bangladeshi economist, civil servant, and a former governor of the Bangladesh Bank, the country's central bank. He is...
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    of Jerusalem. The lieutenant governor will present numerous other provincial honours and decorations and various awards that are named for and presented...
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    try changing the 1935 act to establish checks and balances on the Governor-General's powers.: 236  In response, Muhammad dismissed the Constituent Assembly...
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    lieutenant governor is an office of the Crown and serves as a representative of the monarchy in the province, rather than the governor general of Canada...
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    Jane Urquhart (category Governor General's Award-winning fiction writers)
    her fourth novel, The Underpainter, won the Governor General's Literary Award. Urquhart was born June 21, 1949, in Little Longlac, a small mining town in...
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    William Preston Lane Jr. (category Democratic Party governors of Maryland)
    1967) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 52nd Governor of Maryland from 1947 to 1951. Lane was born in Hagerstown, Maryland, on...
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  • Lois Braun (category 1949 births)
    1949) is a Canadian writer. She was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 1986 Governor General's Awards for...
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