Marilyn Trenholme Counsell

The Hon.
 Marilyn Trenholme Counsell
28th Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick
In office
April 18, 1997 – August 26, 2003
Monarch Elizabeth II
Governor General Roméo LeBlanc
Adrienne Clarkson
Premier Frank McKenna
Ray Frenette
Camille Thériault
Bernard Lord
Preceded by Margaret McCain
Succeeded by Herménégilde Chiasson
Senator for New Brunswick
In office
September 9, 2003 – October 22, 2008
Nominated by Jean Chrétien
Personal details
Born October 22, 1933 (1933-10-22) (age 78)
Baie Verte, New Brunswick
Political party Liberal
Spouse(s) Kenneth Walter Counsell (1972-)
Residence Sackville, New Brunswick

Marilyn Trenholme Counsell, ONB (born October 22, 1933) is a former Canadian Senator and Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick from 1997 to 2003.

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Early years

Born Marilyn Trenholme in Baie Verte, New Brunswick, she is the daughter of Mildred Baxter Trenholme and the late Harry Frederick Trenholme. She married Kenneth Walter Counsell in 1972.

Trenholme Counsell has an undergraduate degree from Mount Allison University and a medical degree from the University of Toronto. She worked as a nutritionist and family physician in Sackville, New Brunswick before entering politics in 1987. She was elected member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick for Tantramar in the 1987 General Election and served until 1997. During this time, from 1994 to 1997 she also served in the cabinet as Minister of State for the Family and Minister of State for Family and Community Services.

Lieutenant Governor

She served as the 28th Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick from 1997 to 2003.

Senator

She was appointed to the Senate in 2003 by Governor General Adrienne Clarkson, on the advice of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, and sat as a member of the Liberal caucus. As a Senator, she was a tireless advocate for literacy. On September 8, 2006, she took her campaign to the Westmoreland Correctional Institution in Dorchester, New Brunswick as part of International Literacy Day where she lauded Turning a New Page as well as the Corrections Canada staff and the inmates for their steadfast efforts to bring literacy to the children of Moncton's District Two. She reached the mandatory retirement age on October 22, 2008.

Arms

Arms of Marilyn Trenholme Counsell
Notes
The arms of Marilyn Trenholme Counsell consist of:[1]
Crest
Upon a helmet mantled Azure doubled Or within a wreath of these colours issuant from a coronet rim Or the upper edge set with roses Argent alternating with thistle flowers Or a demi white-tailed deer proper gorged with a coronet érablé charged on the shoulder with a mullet and bearing between its legs a bolt of lightning all Or.
Escutcheon
Azure issuant in base a pile barry wavy Vert and Argent fimbriated and charged with a rod of Aescalapius Or in chief two open books Argent bound Or.
Supporters
Dexter a yellow labrador Or gorged with a collar of birch bark proper fimbriated Vert sinister a mare Or unguled and maned Azure gorged with a like collar.
Compartment
A grassy mound Vert set with roses Or leaved Vert and marsh violets Purpure leaved Vert above barry wavy of three Argent Azure and Argent.
Motto
Joyful Joyful We Adore Thee

References

  1. ^ Canadian Heraldic Authority (Volume III), Ottawa, 1998 

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