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The Honourable John Harvard, Manitoba's lieutenant governor, will be speaking at the Royal Canadian Legion in Flin Flon. Harvard will address the annual Remembrance Day Banquet this Saturday evening. Legion President Robert Penner said all of the credit for bringing Harvard to speak goes to the Legion's Bob Collacott. "It should be a feather in our cap because it is the first time to my knowledge that we've had the lieutenant governor at our Remembrance Day Banquet," said Penner. Harvard was installed as the 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba on June 30, 2004. Before his appointment, he served as a Member of Parliament for 16-years (1988-2004) and as a broadcast journalist from 1957-1988, including 18 years with CBC. Harvard was first elected in the Federal riding of Winnipeg St. James and subsequently re-elected (three times) in the constituencies of Charleswood Assiniboine and Charleswood St. James-Assiniboia. He sat on the government side of the House for more than ten years (1993-2004) and during that time chaired several all-party committees of the House of Commons. Harvard is originally from Glenboro, Manitoba.
