Janice Filmon
{{Short description|25th Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix = The Honourable
| name = Janice Filmon
| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=CAN|OC|OM|size=100%}}
| image = Janice Filmon.jpg
| caption = Filmon in July 2017
| order = 25th
| office = Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba
| term_start = June 19, 2015
| term_end = October 24, 2022
| monarch = Elizabeth II
Charles III
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| premier = {{plainlist|
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| predecessor = Philip S. Lee
| successor = Anita Neville
| birth_name = Janice Clare Wainwright
| birth_date = c. {{birth year and age|1943}}
| birth_place = Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
| spouse = Gary Filmon ({{abbr|m.|married}} {{circa|1963}})
| children = 4
| residence =
| profession =
| occupation = Social worker, community activist
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| alma_mater = University of Manitoba (BSc)
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Janice Clare Filmon {{post-nominals|country=CAN|OC|OM}} ({{nee}} Wainwright; born {{circa|1943}}) is a Canadian former social worker who served as the 25th lieutenant governor of Manitoba from 2015 to 2022. Her appointment became effective June 19, 2015. She was the viceregal representative of Queen Elizabeth II and King Charles III of Canada in the Province of Manitoba.
Early life
Filmon was born around 1943.{{cite web|url=http://news.umanitoba.ca/embracing-leadership/|title=Embracing Leadership|website=News.umanitoba.ca|access-date=10 October 2018}} A social worker, philanthropist and community activist, she was made a member of the Order of Canada in 2012 and the Order of Manitoba in 2007.{{cite web|url=http://www.gg.ca/honour.aspx?id=11109&t=12&ln=Filmon|title=Order of Canada citation}} She is the chair of the CancerCare Manitoba Foundation and founder of the A Leadership Initiative in Voluntary Efforts (A.L.I.V.E.) volunteer program. She was born in Winnipeg and was a 1964 graduate from the University of Manitoba with a Bachelor of Science degree in home economics. Her husband is Gary Filmon, a former premier of Manitoba; they have four children.{{cite web|url=http://globalnews.ca/news/1898473/janice-filmon-appointed-manitobas-lieutenant-governor/|title=Janice Filmon appointed Manitoba's Lieutenant-Governor|website=Globalnews.ca|access-date=10 October 2018}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z_eSERHkDTYC&q=Janice+Wainwright+filmon&pg=PA356|title=Manitoba Premiers of the 19th and 20th Centuries|first1=Barry|last1=Ferguson|first2=Robert|last2=Wardhaugh|date=10 October 2018|publisher=University of Regina Press|page=356|isbn=9780889772168|access-date=10 October 2018|via=Google Books}}{{cite web |title=Janice Clare Filmon |url=http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/filmon_jc.shtml |publisher=Manitoba Historical Society |date=March 23, 2015 |access-date=March 24, 2017}}
Lieutenant governor
On March 19, 2015, Filmon was appointed by Governor General of Canada David Johnston on the advice of Prime Minister Stephen Harper to be the next Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba, replacing Philip S. Lee.{{cite web|url=https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/Janice-Filmon-will-be-sworn-in-as-Manitobas-lieutenant-governor-on-June-19-301129281.html|title=Janice Filmon will be sworn in as Manitoba's lieutenant-governor on June 19|date=23 April 2015|website=Winipegfreepress.com|access-date=10 October 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/janice-filmon-new-vice-regal-297344271.html|title=Janice Filmon new vice-regal|date=24 March 2015|website=Winnipegfreepress.com|access-date=10 October 2018}} As the viceregal representative in Manitoba, she was styled "Her Honour" while in office and will have the right to the style "the Honourable" for life.
Arms and honours
= Coat of arms =
Filmon was granted a coat of arms through Grant of Arms and Supporters, with differences to Allison Joy Filmon, David Clark Filmon, Gregg Alan Filmon and Susanna Clare Filmon, on May 15, 2019.{{Cite web|url=https://reg.gg.ca/heraldry/pub-reg/project.asp?lang=e&ProjectID=3152&ShowAll=1|title=Filmon, Janice Clare [Individual]|last=General|first=The Office of the Secretary to the Governor|website=reg.gg.ca|language=EN|access-date=2020-02-14}}{{Infobox COA wide|escutcheon=Argent a maple tree eradicated Purpure, its leaves Bleu Céleste, Azure, Gules and Vert, its roots voided of a heart.|crest=An American robin proper, holding in its beak an annulus Sable, wearing a coronet of prairie crocuses Purpure and perched on a nest bearing four eggs proper.|supporters=wo doves Argent beaked and legged Sable, their wings embellished Bleu Céleste, Azure, Vert and Gules, their exterior wings elevated, each wearing a coronet of prairie crocuses Purpure and standing on a field of wheat proper above a bar wavy Bleu Céleste.|motto=JOY IN SERVICE • LOVE OF FAMILY|year_granted=2019}}
References
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{{s-bef|before=Philip S. Lee|as=the 24th Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba}}
{{s-ttl|title=Order of precedence in Manitoba
as the 25th Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba}}
{{s-aft|after=Edward Schreyer|as=the 18th Premier of Manitoba}}
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Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:Lieutenant governors of Manitoba
Category:Members of the Order of Canada
Category:Members of the Order of Manitoba
Category:Politicians from Winnipeg
Category:Canadian women viceroys