Elizabeth Dowdeswell
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Her Honour the Honourable Elizabeth Dowdeswell OC OOnt |
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| 29th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario | |
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Assumed office September 23, 2014 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Governor General | David Johnston |
| Premier | Kathleen Wynne |
| Preceded by | David Onley |
| 3rd Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme | |
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In office 1992–1998 |
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| Secretary-General |
Boutros Boutros-Ghali Kofi Annan |
| Preceded by | Mostafa Kamal Tolba |
| Succeeded by | Klaus Töpfer |
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November 9, 1944 Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Relations | Sibling Ernie, Wayne, Marilyn, Des, Ivan, Shannon, David |
| Parents | Desmond Granville Patton and Janie Annette Patton (nee Reid) |
| Alma mater |
University of Saskatchewan Utah State University |
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Viceregal styles of Elizabeth Dowdeswell (2014–present) |
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V. Elizabeth DowdeswellOC OOnt (née Patton, born November 9, 1944) is the current Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, the 29th since Canadian Confederation. She is the representative of the Queen in Right of Ontario.
Dowdeswell (née Patton) was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on November 9, 1944, and moved with her family to Canada in 1947, settling in rural Saskatchewan. Her father Desmond Granville Patton (1920-2008) was a United Church of Canada minister. Dowdeswell married at a young age but soon divorced. She attended the University of Saskatchewan and Utah State University and later became a teacher and university lecturer.
Dowdeswell left teaching and entered public service, serving in Saskatchewan as deputy minister of culture and youth during the New Democratic Party government of Allan Blakeney, but was dismissed, along with other deputy ministers, after the Progressive Conservative government of Grant Devine took power in 1982.
She served in the federal public service in the 1980s, serving at one point as assistant deputy minister at Environment Canada with responsibility for the Atmospheric Environment Service and negotiating the Framework Convention on Climate Change. She also led a public inquiry into Canada’s unemployment benefits program and federal water policy.
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