Category Archives: Succession (Sovereign)

The Second Elizabethan Age Draws to a Close

Posted on 2022/09/08 by J.W.J. Bowden

The British earlier this year celebrated the Platinum Jubilee earlier this year by planting trees to form part of “The Queen’s Green Canopy.”  The venerable oak represents strength, endurance, and continuity and seemed the most fitting way to extend the … Continue reading →

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Thomas D’Arcy McGee and the Vice-Royalty of Canada

Posted on 2020/12/27 by J.W.J. Bowden

The Dorchester Review has just published my piece detailing how Thomas D’Arcy McGee advocated between 1858 and 1864 establishing a new branch of the Royal House of Saxe-Cobourg and Gotha in the Kingdom of Canada, with a separate line of … Continue reading →

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New Brunswick’s Lieutenant Governor Has Died In Office

Posted on 2019/08/02 by J.W.J. Bowden

Jocelyne Roy-Vienneau, the Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick, has just died of cancer after having revealed the diagnosis in the fall of 2018 around the time of the last change of government from Gallant to Higgs. CBC News reports that … Continue reading →

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Lagassé and Bowden on the Crown as Corporation Sole and Royal Succession

Posted on 2014/04/04 by J.W.J. Bowden

Philippe Lagassé and I have written a short article on the Crown of Canada as a corporation sole and how this fundamental attribute of the Crown pertains to royal succession and section 41(a) of the Constitution Act, 1982. I’d like … Continue reading →

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Michael Ignatieff’s Fire & Ashes: An Oath of Allegiance If Necessary, But Not Necessarily to the Queen

Posted on 2013/09/29 by J.W.J. Bowden

Ignatieff Reveals His Thoughts on the Oath of Allegiance and Canada’s Constitutional Monarchy In his new autobiography of his brief stint in Canadian politics, Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics, Michael Ignatieff couched his opposition to the parliamentarians’ … Continue reading →

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