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[[The Right Honourable]] '''Adrienne Louise Clarkson,''' [[Queen's Privy Council for Canada|PC]] , [[Order of Canada|CC]] , [[Order of Military Merit|CMM]] , [[Order of Merit of the Police Forces|COM]] , [[Canadian Forces Decoration|CD]] , [[Doctor of Laws|LL.D]] (born [[February 10]], [[1939]]) was the [[Governor General of Canada]] from [[October 7]], [[1999]] to [[September 27]], [[2005]]. She was the first [[Chinese Canadian]] and second [[woman]] to hold this position, the first being [[Jeanne Sauvé]]. With Clarkson's appointment, the tradition of naming [[Canadian]] born citizens to the post (beginning with [[Vincent Massey]]).
A [[Hakka]] born (as {{zh-cp|c=伍冰枝|p=Wǔ Bīngzhī}}, Hakka: Ńg Pên-kî) in [[Hong Kong]] to [[William Poy]] and [[Ethel Poy]] (伍英才 Pinyin: Wǔ Yīngcái), but raised in [[Ontario]], Clarkson's ancestry is from [[Taishan]], [[Guangdong]], [[China]]. Since her father was a [[United Kingdom|British]] subject, he was a part of a prisoner-of-war exchange with the [[Japanese Imperial Forces]]. Her family subsequently came to [[Canada]], using the "special circumstances" clause in the [[Chinese Immigration Act of 1923]] that allowed Chinese into Canada during the [[Second World War]] in [[1942]]. Her brother is retired [[Toronto]] plastic surgeon [[Dr Neville Poy]].
==Early career==
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