Lord Tweedsmuir

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, was an internationally famous Scottish author of thrillers including The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915). In 1935, he was appointed Governor General of Canada by King George V, quickly falling in love with the vast Canadian northern landscape and traveling extensively by canoe and floatplane.

Tweedsmuir declared that a Canadian's primary loyalty was not to the British Empire, but to Canada itself. In 1936, he founded the Governor General's Literary Awards to foster Canadian literature. He coordinated the historic 1939 royal tour of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, dying in office at the Montreal Neurological Institute.