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Journalist. author. Whit Grant Fraser CC (born November 26, 1942) [1] is a Canadian journalist, broadcaster, and author who, by virtue of his marriage to Mary Simon, is the 56th and current viceregal consort of Canada. [2]
- Whit Grant Fraser, November 26, 1942 (age 80), Merigomish, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Sharon Johnston (2017)
Photo credit: MCpl Anis Assari, Rideau Hall © OSGG, 2021. His Excellency Whit Grant Fraser is the spouse of Mary May Simon, Canada’s first Indigenous governor general and the 30 th governor general since Confederation. He was born in Merigomish, Pictou County, Nova Scotia on November 26, 1942.
Whit Fraser C.C. is a journalist, author and storyteller, and vice-regal consort of Canadian Governor General Mary Simon. His first book, a memoir of his life and work in Arctic communities titled True North Rising, won the 2019 NorthWords Book Prize. Fraser also served as founding chair of the Canadian Polar Commission, and as executive ...
18. Okt. 2021 · Oktober 2021. Bundespräsident Frank-Walter Steinmeier und Elke Büdenbender haben am 18. Oktober in Schloss Bellevue ein Staatsbankett zu Ehren der Generalgouverneurin von Kanada, Mary May Simon, und ihres Mannes Whit Fraser gegeben.
True North Rising. In this captivating memoir, Whit Fraser weaves scenes from more than fifty years of reporting and living in the North with fascinating portraits of the Dene and Inuit activists who successfully overturned the colonial order and politically reshaped Canada—including his wife, Mary Simon, Canada’s first Indigenous governor general.
9. Jan. 2019 · Whit Fraser’s memoir, True North Rising, looks back on his five-decade relationship with northern Canada. You can get the book from Burnside Publishing Corporation. By Jim Bell.
28. Apr. 2023 · 7. 278 views 9 months ago. Whit Fraser went north to Frobisher Bay (now Iqaluit, Nunavut) in 1967 to work for CBC's northern service. For the next 32 years he travelled to every community in...
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