Iona Campagnolo

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The Honourable Iona Campagnolo PC, OC, OBC, LL.D

27th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia
In office September 25, 2001 – September 30, 2007
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Governor General	Adrienne Clarkson Michaëlle Jean
Premier	Gordon Campbell
Preceded by	Garde Gardom
Succeeded by	Steven Point
Personal details
Born	(1932-10-18) October 18, 1932 Galiano Island, BC
Nationality	Canadian
Profession	Politician

Iona Campagnolo, PC OC OBC (born October 18, 1932) is a Canadian politician, and was the first woman and 27th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia. Prior to becoming Lieutenant Governor she was a Canadian politician and cabinet member in the Liberal government of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.

Career

Born Iona Victoria Hardy on Galiano Island, she got her start in politics in 1966 when she was elected an alderwoman in the city council of Prince Rupert, British Columbia. In 1974, she turned to federal politics, and ran as a Liberal Party candidate for the Canadian House of Commons in the riding of Skeena. She was elected, and in 1976, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau recommended her appointment to Cabinet, as Minister of Amateur Sports. She lost her seat to NDP challenger Jim Fulton in the 1979 election.

In 1982, she became president of the Liberal Party of Canada, a largely administrative position. During the 1984 convention which elected John Turner as Party leader, Campagnolo created a minor furor within the Liberal Party: she said that second-place leadership candidate Jean Chrétien was "second in the balloting, but first in our hearts".

When John Turner became Liberal leader in 1984, a television camera caught Turner patting Campagnolo's bottom. Although Campagnolo herself dismissed it (and patted Turner right back), the incident was used to paint Turner as being out of touch with contemporary women's issues.

Campagnolo ran in North Vancouver—Burnaby in the September 1984 election but was defeated in the Mulroney landslide that reduced Turner's Liberals to 40 seats. She did not run for re-election as party president at the next Liberal convention in 1986.

In 1973, she was made a Member of the Order of Canada and promoted to Officer in 2008. In 1998, she received the Order of British Columbia.

In 2001 she was appointed by Governor General Adrienne Clarkson, on the advice of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, as British Columbia's first female Lieutenant Governor. At her swearing-in, Campagnolo concluded her remarks in Chinook, saying, "konoway tillicums klatawa kunamokst klaska mamook okoke huloima chee illahie" - meaning: "everyone was thrown together to make this strange new country (British Columbia)."^[1]

As the Queen's Vice-Regal Representative in British Columbia, she is styled The Honourable for life. However, as she was already a Member of The Queen's Privy Council for Canada before she became Lieutenant-Governor, she was already styled The Honourable.

In 2003 the Chief Herald of Canada granted armorial bearings to Campagnolo.

Awards

Member of Order of Canada, 1973
Order of British Columbia, 1998
Honorary Doctor of Laws (LL.D) from University of Victoria, 2007
Officer of Order of Canada, 2008
Honorary Degree from University of British Columbia, 2009 ^[2]
Honorary Degree from Royal Roads University, 2010 ^[3]

Arms

Arms of Iona Campagnolo

Notes	The arms of Iona Campagnolo consist of:^[4]

Crest	Issuant from a circlet Vert edged Or set with a frieze of dogwood flowers, a trumpeter swan (Cygnus buccinator) wings elevated Argent gorged with a scarf of the MacDonald tartan proper.

Escutcheon	Azure two pallets wavy, overall a double arched bridge Argent masoned Azure.

Supporters	Dexter a female Kermode bear sinister a male Kermode bear (Ursus americanus Kermodie) both proper and gorged with a collar of red cedar Vert pendent therefrom a hurt, that to the dexter charged with an orca as styled by Tsimshian artist Roy Henry Vickers, that to the sinister charged with an eagle as styled by Haida artist Bill Reid Or.

Compartment	A grassy mound set with Blue Camas (Camassia quamash), nodding onion (Allium cernuum) and Garry oaks (Quercus garryana) proper above barry wavy Argent and Azure.

Motto	With Change is Peace

References

↑ http://thetyee.ca/Life/2006/01/10/StillSpeakChinook/
↑ 2009 UBC Honorary Degree Recipients announced
↑ 2010 Royal Roads honours trio of inspiring “islanders” at spring convocation
↑ Canadian Heraldic Authority (Volume IV), Ottawa, 2003

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Parliament of Canada
Preceded by Frank Howard	Member of Parliament for Skeena 1974-1979	Succeeded by Jim Fulton
Party political offices
Preceded by Norman MacLeod	President of the Liberal Party of Canada 1982–1986	Succeeded by Michel Robert
Order of precedence
Preceded by Steven Point	Order of precedence in British Columbia as of 2013	Succeeded by Dave Barrett

v t e Lieutenant Governors of British Columbia

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Persondata
Name	Campagnolo, Iona
Alternative names
Short description	Canadian politician
Date of birth	October 18, 1932
Place of birth	Galiano Island, BC
Date of death
Place of death

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