Alan Abraham

Alan Rockwell Abraham, CM ONS CD (born February 1, 1931) was the 27th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia.

Abraham, an engineering graduate from Saint Mary's University^[1] was involved in federal politics and helped with the organization of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's tours of the Maritimes. In 1983, Governor General Edward Schreyer, on the advice of Prime Minister Trudeau, appointed Abraham Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, the youngest in the province's history.^[1]

In 1996, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.^[2] He is a recipient of the Order of Nova Scotia.^[1]

References

Lieutenant Governors of Nova Scotia Post-Confederation (1867–present) Williams Doyle Howe Archibald Richey McLelan Daly Jones D. Fraser McGregor MacKeen M. Grant Douglas Tory Stanfield Covert Irwin Mathers Kendall McCurdy A. Fraser Plow MacKeen Oland Gosse Shaffner Abraham Crouse Kinley Freeman Francis J. Grant Lieutenant-Governors before Confederation (1786–1867) Parr Bulkeley Wentworth Prévost (Croke) Sherbrooke Smyth Dalhousie Kempt Jeffrey Maitland Jeffrey C. Campbell Falkland Dickson Harvey Bazalgette LeMarchant Phipps Doyle MacDonnell Williams Lieutenant-Governors of Cape Breton Island (1784–1820) Desbarres Macarmick Mathews Ogilvie Murray Despard Nepean Swayne Ainslie Governors before Confederation (1710–86) Vetch Nicholson Caulfeild Vetch Caulfeild Philipps Doucett Armstrong Cosby Mascarene Cornwallis Hopson Lawrence Ellis Belcher Wilmot W. Campbell Green Francklin Legge Francklin Arbuthnot Hughes Hamond Parr Lieutenant-Governors who served in the absence of Governors are listed in parentheses. Acting administrators are listed in italics.