Adrienne Clarkson: Difference between revisions

On October 3, 2005, Clarkson was sworn into the [[Queen's Privy Council for Canada]].<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.pco-bcp.gc.ca/index.asp?lang=eng&page=information&sub=council-conseil&doc=members-membres/chronolog-eng.htm#2001-2010| last=Privy Council Office| author-link=Privy Council Office (Canada)| title=Information Resources > Current Chronological List of Members of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada > 2001 –| publisher=Queen's Printer for Canada| date=October 30, 2008| access-date=February 27, 2009| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160215221747/http://www.pco-bcp.gc.ca/index.asp?lang=eng&page=information&sub=council-conseil&doc=members-membres%2Fchronolog-eng.htm#2001-2010| archive-date=February 15, 2016| url-status=dead}}</ref> She subsequently published her memoirs, founded the Institute for Canadian Citizenship, and became Colonel-in-Chief of [[Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry]].

 

Clarkson is a [[Chinese Canadian]] whose [[Ancestral home (China)|ancestry]] lies from the [[Taishanese people|Taishanese]] (paternal line) and [[Hakka people|Hakka]] (maternal line) peoples in [[Guangdong]], [[China]].<ref>{{cite web| url=http://history.sina.com.cn/bk/lszh/2015-03-23/1755117780.shtml| title=From "small refugee" to the first Chinese Canadian| date=March 23, 2015| publisher=Sina| access-date=July 24, 2016}}>/ref></ref> Her paternal grandfather ({{zh|first=j|labels=no|c=伍培 |j=ng5 pui4|p=Wǔ Péi}}) immigrated in the late 19th century to [[Chiltern, Victoria|Chiltern]], [[Australia]]. There, he operated a general store called ''Willie Ah Poy Fruitier and Confectioner'', ''Ah Poy'' being his name in the [[Vocative case|vocative]], based on the [[Taishanese]] pronunciation, and what Australian immigration officials heard Poy enunciate in response to their request for his name.<ref>{{cite book| last=Clarkson| first=Adrienne| title=Heart Matters| publisher=Penguin Group Canada| date=September 12, 2006| location=Toronto| page=[https://archive.org/details/heartmattersmemo0000clar_g7p5/page/32 32]| isbn=0-670-06546-3| url=https://archive.org/details/heartmattersmemo0000clar_g7p5/page/32}}</ref> Poy's first son, [[William Poy|William]], was born in [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]] but was later sent back to Taishan, from where he made his way to [[British Hong Kong|Hong Kong]]. There, he worked with his father for the [[Government of Canada|Canadian government]] and met and married Ethel Poy, with whom he had two children: [[Neville Poy|Neville]], born October 29, 1934, and Adrienne, born February 10, 1939. The elder went on to become a plastic surgeon in [[Toronto]] and married [[Vivienne Poy|Vivienne Lee]], who herself became a [[Senate of Canada|Senator]].<ref name=Janigan>{{cite journal|last=Janigan |first=Mary |author2=Nicol, John |title=Clarkson Appointed Governor General |journal=Maclean's |publisher=Kenneth Whyte |location=Toronto |date=September 20, 1999 |url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=M1ARTM0012014 |issn=0024-9262 |access-date=March 2, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608173512/http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=M1ARTM0012014 |archive-date=June 8, 2011 }}</ref>