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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 91. Chapters: Graham Greene, Yo-Yo Ma, Sarah McLachlan, Adrienne Clarkson, Sam Waterston, Wendy Mesley, Alec Baldwin, Callum Keith Rennie, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Maury Chaykin, Ellen Page, Tony Burman, Brian Cox, Colleen Dewhurst, Sarah Polley, Rachel McAdams, Russell Peters, Paul Gross, Rick Mercer, Stephen McHattie, Megan Follows, Colm Feore, Seán Cullen, Jackie Burroughs, Allan King, Erin Karpluk, Chris Cuthbert, Peter Mansbridge, Torri Higginson, Ron MacLean, Shirley Douglas, Amin Bhatia, Mark Korven, Mary Walsh, Ian Tracey, Shenae Grimes, Ernie Coombs, Bob McKeown, Janet Wright, Jim Hughson, Kris Lemche, Brian Stewart, Ksenia Solo, Graeme Campbell, Eric Robertson, Tracey Deer, Paul Soles, Kay Tremblay, Nick Hector, Yanna McIntosh, Lushin Dubey, Neil Macdonald, Wendy Crewson, Steven Silver, Rex Murphy, Donald Brittain, Cathy Jones, Cara Pifko, Michael Riley, Sturla Gunnarsson, Joe Schlesinger, Shaun Majumder, Nicky Guadagni, Diana Swain, Gil Cardinal, Robin Cass, Céline Galipeau, David Cubitt, Alisen Down, Tina Keeper, Victor Malarek, Michael Murphy, Neil Diamond, Arsinée Khanjian, Andy Nulman, Patrick McKenna, Diane D'Aquila, Lucy Decoutere, Hart Hanson, Robert Wisden, Gavin Crawford, Stephan Carrier, Brad Turner, Kevin Brauch, Mike Clattenburg, Beverly Thomson, Sophie Lorain, Ali Mukaddam, John J. Thomson, Hélène Joy, Evan Solomon, Ken Finkleman, Tanya Allen, Anna Maria Tremonti, Sonja Smits, Lorne Frohman, Milan Kymlicka, Greg Thomey, Dan Matheson, Terry Leibel, Sara Botsford, Michel Jetté, Patrick Brown, Carol Spier, David New, Mark Lee, Tom Kennedy, Julie Stewart, Asaph Fipke, Mark Zsifkovits, Richard Chevolleau, John Welsman, Martha Gibson, Avis Favaro, Bette MacDonald, Anne Marie La Traverse, Christina Jennings. Excerpt: Adrienne Louise Clarkson (née Adrienne Louise Poy, February 10, 1939) is a Canadian journalist and stateswoman who served as Governor General of Canada, the 26th since Canadian Confederation. Clarkson arrived in Canada with her family in 1941 as a refugee from Hong Kong and raised in Ottawa, Ontario. After receiving a number of university degrees, Clarkson worked as a producer and broadcaster for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and a journalist for various magazines. Her first diplomatic posting came in the early 1980s, when she promoted Ontario culture in France and other European countries. She was in 1999 appointed as governor general by Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada, on the recommendation of Prime Minister of Canada Jean Chrétien, to replace Roméo LeBlanc as viceroy, and she occupied the post until succeeded by Michaëlle Jean in 2005. While Clarkson's appointment as the Canadian vicereine was generally welcomed at first, she caused some controversy during her time serving as the Queen's representative, mostly due to costs incurred in the operation of her office, as well as a somewhat anti-monarchist attitude toward the position. On October 3, 2005, Clarkson was sworn into the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, giving her the accordant style of The Honourable; however, as a former governor general of Canada, Clarkson is entitled to be styled for life with the superior form of The Right Honourable. She subsequently published her memoirs, founded the Institute for Canadian Citizenship, and became Colonel-in-Chief of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. Clarkson's ancestry lies with the Hakka in Taishan, Guangdong, China, from where her paternal grandfather (¿¿ Pinyin...