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30-481: The awards were created in 1992 under the patronage of then Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn and his wife Gerda Hnatyshyn . From 1992 to 2014, they typically honoured six figures per year; since 2015 they have honoured five. In addition to the lifetime awards, they also present the National Arts Centre Award to honour a figure who has had significant career achievements within the past year but

60-711: A Ukrainian Canadian , was born in Saskatoon , Saskatchewan , to Helen and John Hnatyshyn . John practised as a lawyer, but also became involved in politics, running unsuccessfully in three federal elections in the riding of Yorkton before becoming Canada's first Ukrainian-born senator in 1959. John's political links and friendship with John Diefenbaker , the future prime minister, would provide his son with frequent exposure to high-calibre political debate. Ray Hnatyshyn attended Victoria Public School and Nutana Collegiate Institute in Saskatoon, then went on to study at

90-428: A 2021 gala, with no new honorees named for 2021 itself. Ray Hnatyshyn Ramon John Hnatyshyn PC CC CMM CD QC (Can) QC (Sask) FRHSC( hon ) ( / n ə ˈ t ɪ ʃ ən / nə- TISH -ən ; March 16, 1934 – December 18, 2002) was a Canadian lawyer and statesman who served as the 24th governor general of Canada from 1990 to 1995. Hnatyshyn

120-526: A ceremony in the Senate chamber on January 29, 1990. Hnatyshyn thereafter made an effort to open up Rideau Hall —the monarch's and governor general's residence in Ottawa —to the public, establishing a visitors' centre and initiating guided tours of the palace and the royal park in which it sits . These moves marked a complete reversal of the policies of his predecessor Sauvé, who had closed Rideau Hall to

150-486: A lawyer. That year, on January 9, he married Karen Gerda Nygaard Andreasen , eventually having and raising two sons with her. In the 1964 Saskatchewan general election , he ran unsuccessfully as a Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan candidate in the electoral district of Saskatoon City . In 1966 he began teaching at the University of Saskatchewan's College of Law as a sessional lecturer, and in 1973 he

180-587: A live gala at the National Arts Centre, and are typically recorded for broadcast by CBC Television at a later date. Once inducted into one of the main "lifetime achievement" categories, a recipient is not honoured again in future years; however, a recipient of the NAC or RJH awards may be later named as a lifetime achievement recipient. In 1994, Paul Gessell of the Ottawa Citizen criticized

210-657: A minority government in that election, and Hnatyshyn was appointed on June 4 to the Cabinet chaired by Joe Clark as Minister of Energy, Mines, and Resources , as well as Minister of State for Science and Technology. The PC minority government fell in December 1979, and the Liberals regained power in the subsequent federal election held on February 18, 1980. Hnatyshyn was re-elected MP in Saskatoon West, and

240-525: A number of state visits , including one to Ukraine , before his time serving at Her Majesty's pleasure ended on February 6, 1995. Throughout his tenure as the Canadian viceroy, Hnatyshyn was both defended and criticised by the Monarchist League of Canada . In their final summary of Hnatyshyn's years in office, though, the former governor general was generally viewed to have not stood up for

270-547: A tone-on-tone rendering of part of Hnatyshyn's coat of arms . Two years later, a 48-minute documentary DVD examining the life of Hnatyshyn, A Man for all Canadians was released in Canada by IKOR Film. [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] There is a Ramon J. Hnatyshyn fonds at Library and Archives Canada . Queen%27s Privy Council for Canada Too Many Requests If you report this error to

300-627: Is not yet considered to be at the "lifetime achievement" stage of their career, and the Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for Voluntarism in the Performing Arts to honour people who have been active in voluntary service to the arts. Recipients of the lifetime achievement and NAC awards receive $ 25,000 and a commemorative medallion; recipients of the RJH award receive a medallion, but are not given money. The awards are presented at

330-633: The Governor General's International Award for Canadian Studies . Among numerous other official and ceremonial duties, the Governor General presided over celebrations to mark the 125th anniversary of Confederation and welcomed to Rideau Hall the Prince and Princess of Wales , along with a host of foreign dignitaries such as President of Russia Boris Yeltsin and King Hussein and Queen Noor of Jordan . Further, Hnatyshyn undertook

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360-511: The Persian Gulf . Hnatyshyn was then buried at Beechwood Cemetery in Ottawa. Various memorials followed Hnatyshyn's death: On March 16, 2004, Canada Post unveiled at a ceremony, attended by Hnatyshyn's widow , a $ 0.49 postage stamp designed by Vancouver graphic artist Susan Mavor, and bearing the formal portrait of Hnatyshyn taken by Canadian Press photographer Paul Chaisson on the day Hnatyshyn became governor general, along with

390-603: The University of Saskatchewan , earning a Bachelor of Arts in 1954, and a Bachelor of Laws two years later. He was called to the bar of Saskatchewan in 1957 and briefly worked at a Saskatoon law firm, then moved to Ottawa in 1958 to take a position as an assistant to Walter Aseltine , the Government Leader in the Canadian Senate . Hnatyshyn returned to Saskatoon in 1960 and resumed his career as

420-527: The Canadian Crown that he represented, choosing to follow, instead of Vincent Massey 's example, that of Sauvé, who was herself seen as a republican. This lack of loyalty, it was argued, left Hnatyshyn with few defenders when he was targeted by members of the Reform Party for his salary and taxes. It was thought by John Pepall that Hnatyshyn's name had been selected by Mulroney to put forward to

450-516: The Ottawa firm of Gowling, Strathy & Henderson in April 1989. On December 14, 1989, Queen Elizabeth II , by commission under the royal sign-manual and Great Seal of Canada , appointed Prime Minister Brian Mulroney 's choice of Hnatyshyn to succeed Jeanne Sauvé as the Queen's representative . He was the second consecutive Saskatchewan-born Governor-General. Hnatyshyn was sworn in during

480-662: The PCs began to trail the Liberals in opinion polling, Mulroney announced a cabinet shuffle, naming Hnatyshyn Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada on June 30. He was called to the bar of Ontario the same year, and was appointed Queen's Counsel in Canada in 1988. Saskatoon West was abolished before the election of 1988 , and Hnatyshyn attempted to follow most of his constituents into Saskatoon—Clark's Crossing , but lost to NDP challenger Chris Axworthy . Following his defeat, Hnatyshyn returned to practising law, joining

510-684: The Queen for appointment as governor general because Hnatyshyn, who had just recently been a member of the Cabinet headed by Mulroney until losing his parliamentary seat in the 1988 election, was someone Mulroney could "hardly feel any deference for", allowing Mulroney to continue to show the "juvenile extreme of the politician's craving for publicity and centre stage" he had while Jeanne Sauvé was governor general. After his departure from Government House, Hnatyshyn returned to Gowling, Strathy & Henderson, where he became senior partner. In November 2002 he

540-791: The arts. To these ends, he established in 1992 the Governor General's Performing Arts Award , the Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for Voluntarism in the Arts, and the Governor General's Flight For Freedom Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literacy. Further, he founded the International Council for Canadian Studies, the Governor General Ramon John Hnatyshyn Education Fund, the Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for Law, and

570-609: The awards for paying lip service to diversity in Canadian arts despite the fact that only two people of colour, pianists Oscar Peterson and Jon Kimura Parker , had ever been named as honorees as of that time. One named honoree in 2005, singer-songwriter and poet Raymond Lévesque , declined the honour due to his support of the Quebec sovereignty movement. The awards proceeded that year with five lifetime honorees instead of six. In 2018, Governor General Julie Payette faced controversy when she announced that she would not be presiding over

600-413: The ceremony, the first time in the history of the awards that the sitting governor general did not attend. Payette offered little clarification of her reasons for not attending, but had faced some criticism since the beginning of her term around her apparently limited workload. Due to a change in the award's scheduling from fall to spring, the awards were not presented in 2007. Jazz singer Michael Bublé

630-560: The foundation for honouring Neil Young , on the grounds that he had lived in the United States for many years and had, according to Gessell, "turned his back" on Canada, and Gilles Vigneault due to his support of the Quebec sovereignty movement . He further predicted, correctly, that Joni Mitchell would be an honoree in the near future, but opined that she was an inappropriate choice for the same reason as Young. In 2001 he criticized

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660-676: The funeral rite of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church—officiated by Archbishop Yurij , Bishop of Toronto, and the clergy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church—and a eulogy from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 's chief correspondent, Peter Mansbridge . Adrienne Clarkson , by that time the sitting governor general, paid tribute to him via video, as she and her husband were en route to spend Christmas with Canadian troops stationed in

690-444: The general public. In 1991, Hnatyshyn staged on the grounds the first of the annual Governor General's Summer Concert Series and, the year after, mounted His Excellency's Most Excellent Rock Concert and re-opened the skating rink to the public. These events blended with some of Hnatyshyn's self-imposed mandates during his viceregal tenure, which included a desire to engage Canadian youth and focus attention on education and to encourage

720-473: The post until succeeded by Roméo LeBlanc in 1995. As the Queen's representative, Hnatyshyn followed an egalitarian approach by reversing some exclusive policies of his predecessors, such as by opening up Rideau Hall to ordinary Canadians and tourists alike, and was praised for raising the stature of Ukrainian Canadians . He subsequently practiced law and sat as Chancellor of Carleton University before dying of pancreatitis on December 18, 2002. Hnatyshyn,

750-402: The riding of Saskatoon—Biggar against New Democratic Party incumbent Alfred Gleave . He thereby became a member of Parliament (MP). He was appointed the PCs' deputy house leader in 1976. When Saskatoon—Biggar was abolished ahead of the 1979 election , Hnatyshyn followed most of his constituents into the newly established riding of Saskatoon West , where he won re-election. The PCs won

780-727: Was appointed Queen's Counsel in Saskatchewan. In his youth, Hnatyshyn enrolled in the Royal Canadian Air Cadets , where he was a member of 107 Spitfire Squadron in Saskatoon. He was enlisted as a reservist with the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) from 1951 to 1956, then served in the RCAF's 23 Wing (Auxiliary) from 1956 to 1958. In the 1974 federal election , Hnatyshyn ran as a Progressive Conservative Party (PC) candidate and narrowly won

810-670: Was born and educated in Saskatchewan and served in the Royal Canadian Air Force prior to being elected to the House of Commons in 1974. On June 4, 1979, Hnatyshyn was sworn into the Queen's Privy Council for Canada 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 . He replaced Jeanne Mathilde Sauvé as viceroy , and occupied

840-458: Was installed as Chancellor of Carleton University in Ottawa; however, he died of complications from pancreatitis shortly before Christmas that year. Per tradition, and with the consent of his family, Hnatyshyn lay in state for two days in the Senate chamber. Though he was Ukrainian Orthodox , he was commemorated in his state funeral in a multi-faith ceremony on December 23, 2002, at Ottawa's Christ Church Cathedral . The service included

870-619: Was named opposition critic for justice. Brian Mulroney replaced Joe Clark as PC leader following the 1983 leadership election , and named Hnatyshyn Opposition House Leader in April 1984. The PCs won a landslide majority government in the 1984 federal election , and Hnatyshyn was named Government House Leader in November 1984, before adding President of the Privy Council to his portfolio in February 1985. By mid-1986, as

900-462: Was named as the recipient of the National Arts Centre award in 2016; however, as he was unable to attend the gala due to vocal cord surgery, he received the award at the 2017 gala instead. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada , the 2020 gala was cancelled; however, as that year's recipients had already been announced in February before COVID-related lockdowns came into effect, they were honoured at

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