Ottawa, Ontario
14 April 2015
Permanent Members
Kevin Stewart MacLeod
Kevin Stewart MacLeod is a native of BoularderieIsland, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. He studied at BostonUniversity (Boston, Massachusetts) and CarletonUniversity (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 CapeBreton. 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 CarletonUniversity (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 VancouverMuseum, 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 president 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
Charlie Evalik
Charlie Evalik is from Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, and is a longtime leader of the territory’s most western region, Kitikmeot.
For several decades, Mr. Evalik has been fostering self-reliance for Nunavummiut through his efforts to improve economic opportunities, especially by the creation and promotion of Inuit-owned businesses. This includes his work as a founding member of the Nunavut Resources Corporation, which was created to diversify and further develop Nunavut’s economy by attracting investment to the territory. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board.
Mr. Evalik is also the past President of the Kitikmeot Inuit Association (KIA), which represents the interests of Kitikmeot Inuit by protecting and promoting their social, cultural, political, environmental, and economic well-being, a position he was elected to three times. During his tenure he successfully negotiated Inuit impact and benefit agreements with major resource developers and signed an agreement with the Department of National Defence which resulted in substantial opportunities for Inuit beneficiaries and Inuit-owned businesses during the environmental remediation of former Distant Early Warning Line sites. He was also instrumental in helping direct KIA’s two economic development subsidiaries: the Kitikmeot Corporation and the Kitikmeot Economic Development Commission.
Mr. Evalik also worked for the Enokhok Development Corporation and PanArctic Oils Limited and held several positions with the Hamlet of Cambridge Bay and the Government of the Northwest Territories. He also served as a Senior Negotiator with the Tunngavik Federation of Nunavut and later as Chief Negotiator and Nunavut Implementation Panel member for Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated. In addition, he was an important contributor to the settlement of the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement and was heavily involved in the negotiations that preceded the creation of the territory.
Mr. Evalik received an Honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Alberta in 2011 and received a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012.
Michael Shouldice
Michael Shouldice is a lifelong educator known as “a pillar of education in Nunavut” for his commitment to post-secondary education, students and community.
He recently retired as President of the NunavutArcticCollege after serving in various capacities at the school for almost 30 years.
In 1988 Mr. Shouldice became Vice President of what was then known as Keewatin Campus, later moving into the position of Campus Director and Dean for the college’s Kivalliq campus.
Mr. Shouldice became President of the NunavutArcticCollege in 2011. Under his leadership the college experienced significant growth including the addition of new post-secondary programs development to meet the territory’s labour market demands for Early Childhood Educators, training in the tourism sector, apprenticeship and pre-apprenticeship programs.
He is also known for ensuring a balance between northern and southern learning expectations, bringing Inuit culture into the forefront of Nunavut’s adult and post-secondary education systems.
Mr. Shouldice was honoured with a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012.
