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  • Governor General to honour remarkable achievements at Rideau Hall

    Media Advisory  –  December 9, 2021

    Members of the media are invited to Rideau Hall to cover a presentation of honours ceremony, during which Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada, will present honours to 23 deserving individuals.

  • UPDATE: 108th Grey Cup Championship in Hamilton

    Media Advisory  –  December 12, 2021

    OTTAWA—With regrets, Their Excellencies the Right Honourable Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada, and Mr. Whit Fraser will no longer be attending the 108th Grey Cup, the Championship of the Canadian Football League (CFL), in Hamilton, Ontario.

  • National Day for Truth and Reconciliation 2021

    Transcript
    [Screen Description: A stone inuksuk stands amongst trees. The grass and the leaves are green. There is a small yellow banner in the lower left corner of the screen, which reads “Rideau Hall.”]
    [Screen Description: The Governor General is sitting in a room at Rideau Hall. She is wearing a red and black blouse with a white blazer. A beaded pin representing an orange t-shirt is pinned to her blazer. She is also wearing an Order of Canada pin. There are paintings and a rustic cabinet behind her. There is a logo and a yellow banner in the lower left corner, which reads “Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary May Simon Governor General of Canada”. The text on the banner fades and is replaced with the same text in French. As she speaks, subtitles appear at the bottom of the screen in both French and English. In the background, we hear soft instrumental music.]
    [Governor General Mary May Simon:] Good evening. 
    [Governor General Mary May Simon:] (In French) Good evening.
    [Governor General Mary May Simon:] (In Inuktitut) Good evening.
    [Governor General Mary May Simon:] I am speaking to you from Rideau Hall, on the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinabe people. I am honoured to be Canada’s Governor General and to be part of acknowledging this very first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Today, I want to communicate a message to you: 
    [Governor General Mary May Simon:] (In French) Reconciliation requires effort every day from everyone. 
    [Governor General Mary May Simon:] (In Inuktitut) And this effort we must carry out for all time, for it has no end date or finish line. 
    [Governor General Mary May Simon:] (In French) On this National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, I urge you to pause and reflect on Canada’s full history. 
    [Governor General Mary May Simon:] (In Inuktitut) Do it to honour those Indigenous children who experienced or witnessed cruel injustices. Many emerged traumatized, many still suffer pain. 
    [Governor General Mary May Simon:] As we strive to resolve the tensions of the past with the promise of the future, we can stand together and move forward with grace and humility.
    [Governor General Mary May Simon:] (In Inuktitut) Make reconciliation a way of life.
    [Screen Description: The screen fades to black.]
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  • State Visit to Germany

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    [Screen Description:] The screen reads: Mary May Simon, Governor General of Canada (English), followed by gouverneure générale du Canada (French). The background is dark blue and the viceregal lion is in the centre of the image, above the text. A watermark at the bottom of the image indicates that this video is owned by Rideau Hall. [This same image is also seen at the end of the video.]
    [Screen Description:] The video illustrates a series of scenes featuring Governor General Mary May Simon and Mr. Whit Grant Fraser during their State visit to Germany. They visit several places, including Schloss Bellevue, the Brandenburg Gate, the Frankfurt Book Fair, Neue Wache, the Jewish Museum in Berlin, the Frankfurt Museum of Archaeology, and the Old Town of Frankfurt. There is music in the background.
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  • First Poppy Ceremony 2021

    Transcript
    [Screen Description:] The screen reads: Mary May Simon, Governor General of Canada (English), followed by gouverneure générale du Canada (French). The background is dark blue and the viceregal lion is in the centre of the image, above the text. A watermark at the bottom of the image indicates that this video is owned by Rideau Hall. This same image is also seen at the end of the video.]
    [Screen Description: The video illustrates a series of scenes featuring Governor General Mary May Simon and Mr. Whit Grant Fraser during the First Poppy ceremony at Rideau Hall. They each receive a poppy and then the Governor General presents poppies to Canadian veterans. Instrumental music is playing throughout the video.]
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