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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 ...
- Deeply Held Opinions
- A Stark Racial Divide
- The Reporter Becomes The Story
And opinions? Whit Fraser’s got opinions. In a postscript, Fraser ends his memoir on a dark note, pointing out that northern Canada’s social and health care problems now appear to be as bad as they were 50 years ago. To that end, he calls for massive government action to reverse what he calls a tide of social destruction. “It’s the painful and trag...
And a stark racial divide emerged in the western N.W.T. One symptom was the “angry racist reaction to the growing Indigenous movement” that arose among non-Indigenous people in the western N.W.T. “The concept of Indigenous rights or title to lands based on historic ownership counted for nothing with them,” he said. So the minority Liberal governmen...
In a chapter titled “The Shit Hits the Fan,” Fraser said he threw his pencil down and demanded Berger accept him as a witness. He now describes this as a lapse in editorial judgment and a selfish act that he still feels conflicted about. “Well, I want to tell you right now that I don’t want the pipeline, and I don’t want it because the Indians don’...
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.
7. Sept. 2022 · Whit Fraser is the viceregal consort of Canada. He spent decades covering the North for CBC News, as well as serving as a national reporter in Ottawa. His novel The Cold Edge of Heaven is available now from Boulder Books.
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.
