Proclamation Announcing the Appointment of the Governor General (SI/95-22)

By His Excellency the Right Honourable Roméo A. LeBlanc, a Member of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada, Chancellor and Principal Companion of the Order of Canada, Chancellor and Commander of the Order of Military Merit, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada.

To All to Whom these Presents shall come,

Greeting:

A Proclamation

Whereas Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, by Commission under the Great Seal of Canada bearing date the sixteenth day of January, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and ninety-five, was graciously pleased to appoint me to be, during the Royal Pleasure, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief in and over Canada, and further, in and by the said Commission, authorized, empowered and commanded me to exercise and perform all and singular the powers and directions contained in certain Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Canada, bearing date the eighth day of September in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven constituting the Office of Governor General and Commander-in-Chief in and over Canada and in any other Letters Patent adding to, amending or substituted for the same.

And Whereas, in accordance with the said Letters Patent, I have caused the said Commission under the Great Seal of Canada appointing me to be, during the Royal Pleasure, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief in and over Canada to be read and published with all due solemnity in the presence of the Chief Justice or other Judge of the Supreme Court of Canada and of Members of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada, and have taken the Oaths prescribed by the said Letters Patent.

Now, Therefore, Know You that I have thought fit to issue this Proclamation in order to make known Her Majesty’s said appointment and to make known that I have entered upon the duties of the said Office of Governor General and Commander-in-Chief in and over Canada.

And I do Hereby require and command that all and singular Her Majesty’s Officers and Ministers in Canada do continue in the execution of their several and respective offices, places and employments, and that Her Majesty’s loving subjects and all others whom these Presents may concern do take notice thereof and govern themselves accordingly.

Given under my Hand and Seal of Office at Ottawa, this eight day of February in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and ninety-five and in the forty-fourth year of Her Majesty’s Reign.