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(Justin Trudeau/Twitter) A residential school Survivor is Queen s newest representative. At a Tuesday press conference at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Quebec, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that Mary Simon, an Inuit woman, will be Canada s 30th Governer General after receiving Queen Elizabeth II s approval. I am honoured and humbled to be Canada s first Indigenous Governor General,  Simon says. I can confidently say that this appointment is a historic and inspirational moment for Canada. Simon began her remarks Inuktitut, another first. She was raised in Kuujjuaq, a village on the shore of Koksoak River on Ungava Bay in Quebec and former Hudson s Bay post. Simon attended Fort Chimo day school, where she was denied the ability to learn French despite in the predominantly French-speaking Quebec, something she says she is working on. Her father was a white fur trader from Manitoba. Simon says she led a very traditional lifestyle and says her

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