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- Vincent_Massey abstract "Charles Vincent Massey PC CH CC CD FRSC(hon) (February 20, 1887 – December 30, 1967) was a Canadian lawyer and diplomat who served as Governor General of Canada, the 18th since Canadian Confederation.Massey was born into an influential Toronto family and was educated in Ontario and England, obtaining a degree in law and befriending future prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King while studying at the University of Oxford. He was commissioned into the military in 1917 for the remainder of the First World War and, after a brief stint in the Canadian Cabinet, began his diplomatic career, serving in envoys to the United States and United Kingdom. Upon his return to Canada in 1946, Massey headed a royal commission on the arts between 1949 and 1951, which resulted in the Massey Report and subsequently the establishment of the National Library of Canada and the Canada Council of the Arts, amongst other grant-giving agencies. He was in 1952 appointed as governor general by King George VI, on the recommendation of Canadian Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, to replace the Viscount Alexander of Tunis as viceroy, and he occupied the post until succeeded by Georges Vanier in 1959. Massey was the first Canadian-born individual to serve as Canada's governor general and he proved to be a successful transition for the office away from occupants who had consistently been both members of the peerage and born overseas.On September 16, 1925, Massey was sworn into the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, giving him the accordant style of The Honourable. However, Massey was later, as a former Governor General of Canada, entitled to be styled for life with the superior form of The Right Honourable. He subsequently continued his philanthropic work and founded Massey College at the University of Toronto and the Massey Lectures before he died on December 30, 1967.".
- Vincent_Massey activeYearsEndDate "1959-09-15".
- Vincent_Massey activeYearsStartDate "1952-02-28".
- Vincent_Massey birthDate "1887-02-20".
- Vincent_Massey birthName "Charles Vincent Massey".
- Vincent_Massey birthPlace Ontario.
- Vincent_Massey birthPlace Toronto.
- Vincent_Massey birthYear "1887".
- Vincent_Massey deathDate "1967-12-30".
- Vincent_Massey deathPlace London.
- Vincent_Massey deathPlace United_Kingdom.
- Vincent_Massey deathYear "1967".
- Vincent_Massey monarch Elizabeth_II.
- Vincent_Massey office "[[#External links".
- Vincent_Massey orderInOffice "18th".
- Vincent_Massey orderInOffice "Governor General of Canada".
- Vincent_Massey primeMinister John_Diefenbaker.
- Vincent_Massey primeMinister Louis_St._Laurent.
- Vincent_Massey profession Diplomat.
- Vincent_Massey religion Anglicanism.
- Vincent_Massey religion Methodism.
- Vincent_Massey religion United_Church_of_Canada.
- Vincent_Massey spouse Alice_Massey.
- Vincent_Massey successor Georges_Vanier.
- Vincent_Massey thumbnail Vincent_Massey_Signature.svg?width=300.
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- Vincent_Massey after Norman_Robertson.
- Vincent_Massey after Samuel_Beatty_(mathematician).
- Vincent_Massey after William_Duncan_Herridge.
- Vincent_Massey after "Unknown".
- Vincent_Massey altstyle "Monsieur".
- Vincent_Massey altstyle "Sir".
- Vincent_Massey before Henry_John_Cody.
- Vincent_Massey before Howard_Ferguson.
- Vincent_Massey before "New title".
- Vincent_Massey birthDate "1887-02-20".
- Vincent_Massey birthPlace Ontario.
- Vincent_Massey birthPlace Toronto.
- Vincent_Massey birthname "Charles Vincent Massey".
- Vincent_Massey children "Hart Parkin Vincent Massey II".
- Vincent_Massey children "Lionel Chester Hart Massey".
- Vincent_Massey crest "Out of an Antique Crown Or, a Bull's Head Sable, armed Gold, charged on the neck with a Lozenge Argent, thereon a Fleur de Lis also Sable.".
- Vincent_Massey dateOfBirth "1887-02-20".
- Vincent_Massey dateOfDeath "1967-12-30".
- Vincent_Massey deathDate "1967-12-30".
- Vincent_Massey deathPlace London.
- Vincent_Massey deathPlace United_Kingdom.
- Vincent_Massey dipstyle "His Excellency the Right Honourable".
- Vincent_Massey dipstyle "Son Excellence le très honorable".
- Vincent_Massey escutcheon "Argent, on a Chevron Sable between three Lozenges of the last, each charged with a Fleur de Lis of the first, three Stags' Heads erased Or.".
- Vincent_Massey hasPhotoCollection Vincent_Massey.
- Vincent_Massey honorificPrefix "The Right Honourable".
- Vincent_Massey honorificSuffix "PC CH CC CD FRSC".
- Vincent_Massey imagesize "160".
- Vincent_Massey monarch Elizabeth_II.
- Vincent_Massey motto "DUM TERAR PROSUM".
- Vincent_Massey name "Massey, Vincent".
- Vincent_Massey name "Vincent Massey".
- Vincent_Massey notes "By the time he was serving as the Canadian Minister to the United States, Massey was granted a coat of arms by the College of Arms, in London, United Kingdom. These were reworked by Alan Beddoe, and after the end of Massey's viceregal service, he was granted an augmentation of honour by Queen Elizabeth II.".
- Vincent_Massey number "0".
- Vincent_Massey office "Governor General of Canada".
- Vincent_Massey office "[[#External links".
- Vincent_Massey offstyle "Votre Excellence".
- Vincent_Massey offstyle "Your Excellency".
- Vincent_Massey order "18".
- Vincent_Massey otherElements "On the escutcheon a Canton Azure, a representation of the Crest of Canada as an honourable augmentation.".
- Vincent_Massey placeOfBirth "Toronto, Ontario".
- Vincent_Massey placeOfDeath "England".
- Vincent_Massey post Minister_without_portfolio.
- Vincent_Massey post1followed "n/a".
- Vincent_Massey post1preceded "n/a".
- Vincent_Massey post1years "--09-16".
- Vincent_Massey predecessor Harold_Alexander,_1st_Earl_Alexander_of_Tunis.
- Vincent_Massey primeminister John_Diefenbaker.
- Vincent_Massey primeminister Louis_St._Laurent.
- Vincent_Massey profession Diplomat.
- Vincent_Massey religion "Methodism/United, then Anglicanism".
- Vincent_Massey ribbon "CD-ribbon.png".
- Vincent_Massey ribbon "Canada100 ribbon.png".
- Vincent_Massey ribbon "GeorgeVICoronationRibbon.png".
- Vincent_Massey ribbon "GeorgeVSilverJubileum-ribbon.png".
- Vincent_Massey ribbon "Order of Canada ribbon bar.svg".
- Vincent_Massey ribbon "Order of Companions of Honour ribbon.png".
- Vincent_Massey ribbon "QEII Coronation Medal ribbon.png".
- Vincent_Massey ribbon "VOStJ ribbon.png".
- Vincent_Massey shortDescription "Governor General of Canada".
- Vincent_Massey signature "Vincent Massey Signature.svg".
- Vincent_Massey smallimage "VincentMassey.jpg".
- Vincent_Massey spouse Alice_Massey.
- Vincent_Massey successor Georges_Vanier.
- Vincent_Massey termEnd "1959-09-15".
- Vincent_Massey termStart "1952-02-28".
- Vincent_Massey title Governor_General_of_Canada.
- Vincent_Massey title High_Commission_of_Canada_to_the_United_Kingdom.