Gordon Arnaud Winter

{{Short description|Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador}}

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| honorific-prefix = The Honourable

| name = Gordon Arnaud Winter

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| order = 6th

| office = Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland

| predecessor = Ewart Harnum

| successor = Tony Paddon

| term_start = July 2, 1974

| term_end = July 10, 1981

| monarch = Elizabeth II

| governor_general = Jules Léger
Edward Schreyer

| premier = Frank Moores
Brian Peckford

| birth_date = {{birth date|1912|10|06}}

| birth_place = St. John's, Dominion of Newfoundland

| death_date = {{death date and age|2003|08|01|1912|10|06}}

| death_place = St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador{{fact|date=September 2023}}

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Gordon Arnaud Winter, {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|OC}} (October 6, 1912 – August 1, 2003) was the sixth lieutenant governor of Newfoundland from 1974 to 1981.{{Cite web|url=http://www.heritage.nf.ca/govhouse/governors/g74.html|title=Winter, Hon. Gordon Arnaud (1912-2003)|date=August 2004|website=Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Web Site Project|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070612022738/http://www.heritage.nf.ca/govhouse/governors/g74.html|archive-date=June 12, 2007|url-status=|access-date=April 17, 2019}}

In 1974, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

In 1989, he headed the Winter Commission, the diocesan commission appointed by bishop Alphonsus Liguori Penney to undertake an inquiry about the clerical child sexual abuse scandal at Mount Cashel orphanage.

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