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Canada’s fourth post-Confederation Governor General took office on this date in 1878. His Excellency was only 33 and his full name was John George Edward Henry Douglas Sutherland Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll. Lorne’s wife was none other than Princess Louise, a daughter of Queen Victoria itself.
Both Lorne and his Princess were accomplished artists. In Canada, they were to play roles in the earliest years of the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts and the National Gallery of Canada. Historian P.B. Waite wrote that Lorne has not received a fair shake before history. “He loved Canada and was an excellent publicist for the new dominion just when it needed such promotion,” Waite argued. “His trip to the prairies and to British Columbia showed he had an excellent appreciation of the press, and his sketches and writings attracted public attention. He himself was caught and held by the beauty of the country ….
You can read more about this past Governor General at his entry in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography at
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