Roméo LeBlanc
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Roméo LeBlanc 🇨🇦

Roméo LeBlanc (Known as "Roméo-Adrien LeBlanc")
First Acadian Governor General, Speaker of the Senate, "Fishermen's Minister"
Born 18 December 1927 🇨🇦 Memramcook, Canada
Passed Away 24 June 2009 Grande-Digue, Canada
Lifespan 81 years old
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"If I am to be remembered for anything, let it be that I stood by the inshore fishermen and the working people of our coasts."

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Acadian teacher and broadcaster who served as Pierre Trudeau's longest-serving Minister of Fisheries, Speaker of the Senate, and first Acadian Governor General.

Biographical Record

Roméo-Adrien LeBlanc was born in Memramcook, New Brunswick. Working as a high school teacher and foreign correspondent for Radio-Canada in Washington and London, LeBlanc served as press secretary to prime ministers Lester B. Pearson and Pierre Trudeau before winning election to the House of Commons in 1972.

For seven years, LeBlanc was Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, earning legendary status among coastal workers as the "Fishermen's Minister" by establishing Canada's 200-nautical-mile exclusive fishing zone in 1977. In 1995, he was sworn in as Canada's 25th Governor General, the first Acadian to hold the office, creating the Governor General's Caring Canadian Award.

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Final Resting Place

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Saint-Thomas Catholic Cemetery
Memramcook, Canada
GPS: 45.9833, -64.5667
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