Vincent Massey 1887-1967

Photos by Alan L Brown - Posted September, 2006

Part of the Massey family, Vincent was involved in the creation of Hart House at the University of Toronto in front of which this Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada plaque is located. Here's what it says:

Plaque coordinates: 43.663688 -79.393864

Vincent Massey, diplomat, philanthropist and patron of the arts, was born in Toronto and educated at the University of Toronto and Oxford. He served as Canada's first Minister to Washington (1926-30) and as Canadian High Commissioner to London (1935-46). Later he was named chairman of the Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters and Sciences, whose Report (1951) was a landmark in the cultural history of Canada. In 1952 Massey became the first native-born Governor General of Canada, and held that office until 1959. Hart House was the gift of the Massey Foundation, in which he played a leading part.

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