Ottawa, Ontario - 18 December 2014
Permanent Members
Kevin Stewart MacLeod
Kevin Stewart MacLeod is a native of Boularderie Island, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. He studied at Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) and Carleton University (Ottawa, Ontario), and received both an under-graduate degree in history/political science and a graduate degree in international affairs. He also pursued studies at l’Université de Bourgogne (Dijon, France).
Mr. MacLeod gained 10 years of parliamentary experience as an administrative assistant in the House of Commons. For 22 years, he served with the Department of Canadian Heritage, most notably as Chief of Protocol. In this role, he was responsible for, among other duties, the organization and delivery of Royal Tours to Canada by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and Members of the Canadian Royal Family. In 1992, Her Majesty invested Mr. MacLeod as a Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO) for personal service to the Sovereign. Subsequently, she promoted him to the rank of Lieutenant (LVO) in 2002 and, in 2005, to Commander (CVO) – the highest level of the Order available to Canadians – making him the only Canadian to have been promoted through all three ranks. During the 2005 Royal Tour, he served as Deputy Coordinator and then as Acting Canadian Secretary to Her Majesty.
Mr. MacLeod was appointed Usher of the Black Rod, Senate of Canada, on March 26, 2008. In addition to these duties, on March 31, 2009 he was further appointed Canadian Secretary to The Queen. In April 2010, he was also appointed by the Prime Minister to the Governor General Consultation Committee – a committee mandated to bring forward names for consideration for the appointment of a new Governor General. This process resulted in the eventual appointment of David Johnston as Canada’s 28th Governor General since Confederation.
Mr. MacLeod is the author of the bilingual historical novel “A Stone on Their Cairn / Clach air An Càrn,” about the lives of Scottish Highland settlers in rural Cape Breton. He also authored “A Crown of Maples/La Couronne canadienne” – an overview of the Canadian Crown and constitutional monarchy in Canada, published by the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Mr. MacLeod served as a reservist in Her Majesty’s Canadian Forces for some 20 years. He is a member of the Senate of the Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa and a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.
Robert Douglas Watt
Robert D. Watt was born in Picton, Ontario, and currently resides in North Vancouver, British Columbia. Mr. Watt holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts from Carleton University (Ottawa, Ontario).
Appointed Citizenship Judge in Vancouver in September 2009, he is a Canadian social historian who served as the first Chief Herald of Canada from 1988-2007 in the Office of the Secretary to the Governor General. Mr. Watt was previously Director of the Vancouver Museum, and the City of Vancouver Archivist.
Mr. Watt has served in several areas of heritage preservation and on the boards of the Royal Heraldry Society of Canada, the International Academy of Heraldry, the B.C. Museums Association, and the Vancouver Historical Society. He was also a resident of the Bureau permanent des congrès internationaux des sciences généalogique et héraldique. He has written, published and lectured extensively in Canada and internationally on Canadian heraldry, Canadian social history and material culture, notably historic Canadian stained glass, museum and archival studies and genealogy.
Appointed Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order in 2008, he is also an Officer of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John and received the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal and the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. In 2011, he was appointed Honorary Lieutenant Colonel of the 12th Vancouver Field Ambulance, a reserve unit in the Canadian Forces.
Jacques Monet
Jacques Monet was born in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec. After studying at the Collège Saint-Jean and at Loyola College in Montreal, he entered the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) at Guelph, Ontario. He received his B.A. from the Université de Montréal, his degrees in Philosophy and Theology at the Collège de l’Immaculée-Conception in Montréal, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in History from the University of Toronto.
Dr. Monet is currently the Director of the Canadian Institute of Jesuit Studies, a position he has held since 1988. He is also the Historian of the Archive of the Jesuits in Canada. He has taught at numerous colleges and universities across the country, and is involved in numerous boards and associations.
In 1966, Dr. Monet was ordained to the priesthood at the Church of the Immaculée-Conception in Montréal and made his final profession in the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) at Saint-Pierre-de-Montmartre, Paris, in 1971.
Dr. Monet is a specialist in Canadian constitutional and social history as well as 19th century French-Canadian nationalism, in Church and in Jesuit history. He has published many scholarly articles, and has also contributed to many books, including the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, and the Canadian Encyclopedia.
For his work, he has received various awards and honours. He is a recipient of Her Majesty The Queen’s Silver, Golden and Diamond Jubilee Medals, as well as the Governor General’s Gold Medal, among others.
Temporary Members
Ian Holloway
Ian Holloway was born in Halifax Nova Scotia. He received a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Laws from Dalhousie University, a Master of Laws from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Doctorate from the Australian National University. He also completed the Advanced Executive Program at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and the Leadership 21 Program at Harvard University’s John. F. Kennedy School of Government.
Before beginning his academic career, Dr. Holloway worked in a private practice in Halifax with the McInnes Cooper law firm, focusing on labour and employment law. He also served as the law clerk to the Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Canada.
Dr. Holloway served a term as Associate Dean at the Australian National University, as a visiting professor of law at the National University of Singapore, and also held an appointment at Cambridge University.
He was the longest serving Dean of Law at the University of Western Ontario, holding the position from 2000-2011. He is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Calgary, where he has served since 2011.
Dr. Holloway is also a retired Chief Petty Officer in the Royal Canadian Navy, who spent a total of 26 years serving in the Royal Canadian and Royal Australian Navies.
He has published two books, numerous book chapters, and many articles in law journals in Canada and throughout the world. In addition, he has published a book on naval history as well as 25 essays and other pieces in various legal and non-legal periodicals.
Dr. Holloway is a member of the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society and the Law Society of Upper Canada. In 2003, he was elected a member of the American Law Institute, an honour held by only a few Canadians. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2005.
He is currently a Trustee of the Law School Admission Council and a member of the NALP Foundation’s National Advisory Board. Dr. Holloway serves as a Governor of the Southern Alberta Division of the Canadian Corps of Commissionaires and was a member of the Advisory Council to the Minister of Canadian Heritage on the Commemoration of the War of 1812. He also served as the legal education and training team leader for the Canadian Bar Association’s Futures project.
Dr. Holloway was awarded the Canadian Forces Decoration in 1989, the Commemorative Medal for the 125th Anniversary of Canadian Confederation in 1992, and in 2013, he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.
Ingrid Speaker
Ingrid Speaker was born in Taber, Alberta. She received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Calgary and a Bachelor of Education from the University of Alberta.
She is a former social worker for the Government of Saskatchewan, a former guidance clinic worker in mental health with the Government of Alberta, and a former English as a Second Language teacher.
Ms. Speaker is currently a partner and co-owner of Speaker Gravel, Sand and Rock Limited and a partner in a dryland and irrigation farm.
She served as a member of the University of Lethbridge’s Senate from 1982-1989, was a member of the University of Lethbridge’s Board of Governors from 1987-1989, and was the institution’s seventh Chancellor from 1991 to 1995. In 1995 she established the Ingrid Speaker Medal for Distinguished Research, Scholarship or Performance, which is awarded annually to recognize and honour outstanding members of the university’s academic staff.
Ms. Speaker has also served in a number of other organizations including Vauxhall Performing Arts and the Vauxhall Figure Skating Club. She was the Honorary Chair of Habitat for Humanity and Honorary co-chair of the MRI Campaign for Lethbridge Regional Hospital. She was the Vice President of the Parliamentary Spouses Association from 1993-1997, a member of the National Church Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) from 1994-1997, a member of the Board of Directors of the Lethbridge Family Centre from 1994-1996, a Board Member of the Lethbridge and Southwestern Alberta Community Foundation from 1998-2004, and a Board Member of the Taber and District Seniors Housing Authority from 1998-2004.
In recognition of her community involvement she received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Lethbridge, and received the Alberta Centennial Medal for Volunteerism and was also named to the Vauxhall High School Wall of Fame.
Ms. Speaker is married and has two adult children and four grandchildren.
