On a day of firsts and in a scaled-back installation ceremony, Mary Simon becomes Canada’s 30th and first Indigenous Governor General: ‘I’ve always viewed Canada as a metaphor for family’

Mary Simon promises to breathe new life into the Office of the Governor General and to help lead Canadians on the road to reconciliation.

Mary Simon with her spouse Whit Fraser, left, and Usher of the Black Rod Greg Peters, pictured July 26, 2021, arriving at the Senate Building for her installation as Canada's 30th governor general of Canada. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

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BY CHRISTOPHER GULY

July 27, 2021

SENATE CHAMBER—In a tightly scripted ceremony, laden with tradition but limited in attendance by the COVID-19 pandemic, Mary Jeannie May Simon—a consequential Inuit leader born 73 years ago in the village of Kangiqsualujjuaq in the Nunavik region of northeastern Quebec—made Canadian history on...

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