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George Stanley

George F.G. Stanley
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The Hon. George and Ruth Stanley, Government House, Fredericton, New Brunswick
Birth name George Francis Gillman Stanley
Born (1907-07-06)July 6, 1907
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Died September 13, 2002(2002-09-13) (aged 95)
Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada
Buried at Sackville Cemetery
Allegiance Canada
Awards CC, CD, KStJ, DPhil, DLitt, FRSC, FRHistS, FRHSC (hon.)
Spouse(s) Ruth Stanley
Other work historian, author, soldier, teacher, public servant
25th Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick
In office
December 23, 1981 – August 14, 1987
Monarch Elizabeth II
Governor General Edward Schreyer
Jeanne Sauvé
Premier Richard Hatfield
Preceded by Hédard Robichaud
Succeeded by Gilbert Finn
Military service
Allegiance Canada

Colonel George Francis Gillman Stanley, CC, CD, KStJ, DPhil, DLitt, FRSC, FRHistS, FRHSC (hon.) (July 6, 1907 – September 13, 2002) was a Canadian historian, author, soldier, teacher, public servant, and designer of the current Canadian flag.

George F.G. Stanley was born in Calgary, Alberta in 1907 and received a BA from the University of Alberta in Edmonton. He went to Keble College, University of Oxford, in 1929 as the Rhodes Scholar from Alberta, and held a Beit Fellowship in Imperial Studies and a Royal Society of Canada Scholarship. He earned a BA, MA, MLitt and DPhil. Always a keen athlete, he played for the Oxford University Ice Hockey Club, which won the Spengler Cup in 1931. At Oxford, he wrote his book, The Birth of Western Canada: A History of The , and began his lifelong work on Louis Riel.


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