Honouring our past and shaping our future.

One of my favourite things to do is to ask Canadians to tell the story of how they came to be in this country. Are your ancestors First Nations or Inuit or Metis, the original people of the land? Did your forebears come here for love? For money? To escape religious persecution? Did they come looking for a better future, not for themselves, but for their children? I was born in Winnipeg, Man, and although my 4 grandparents lived there when I was born, they all came from elsewhere. I have chosen a theme for my presidential year at the College, which is “Honouring our past and shaping our future.” Let me honour the past by telling you about my own origins.