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4. She was Canada s first Arctic ambassador In 1986, Simon led the Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC), a group created to represent the Inuit in Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and Chukotka (a Russian territory). At the ICC, she championed two priorities for Indigenous Peoples of the North: protecting their way of life from environmental damage and pushing for responsible economic development on their traditional territory. Later, in 2002, former prime minister Jean Chrétien named Simon Canada s first Arctic ambassador. In the position, Simon worked closely with the eight other circumpolar countries to encourage co-operation in the region. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mary Simon arrive at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Quebec, on Tuesday for Trudeau’s announcement that Simon will be Canada’s next governor general. (Image credit: Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press) ....
It was a completely different life, May said. We had to do chores, hauling water in buckets, hauling ice blocks in the winter. No Ski-Doos back then. If there was any distance involved, it was with a dog team. Simon was born at a Hudson s Bay Co. post in the Nunavik village of Kangiqsualujjuaq in 1947 before her father sent her and her siblings to school in Kuujjuaq, then called Fort Chimo. May, known as the first Inuk pilot in Eastern Canada, described his younger sister as meticulous. She played with dolls when she was young and she had little homes made for the dolls. She was always helping her mum with chores. All I can say is that she was a good girl growing up. ....
(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 lifes ....