Honorific-Prefix: | Her Honour the Honourable |
Antoinette Perry | |
Honorific-Suffix: | OPEI |
Office: | 29th Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island |
Term Start: | October 20, 2017 |
Governor General: | Julie Payette Mary Simon |
Premier: | Wade MacLauchlan Dennis King |
Preceded: | H. Frank Lewis |
Birth Place: | Tignish, Prince Edward Island |
Profession: | Schoolteacher, church organist |
Alma Mater: | Université de Moncton (1976) |
Antoinette Perry, (born 1953 or 1954)[1] is a Canadian former schoolteacher and the 29th lieutenant governor of Prince Edward Island since 2017, acting as the province's viceregal representative of King Charles III of Canada. She was appointed on September 14, 2017, by Governor General David Johnston on the constitutional advice of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,[2] [3] [4] and was sworn in on October 20, 2017, succeeding H. Frank Lewis.[5] Perry's swearing in ceremony took place in Tignish, Prince Edward Island, marking the first time a PEI lieutenant governor was sworn in outside of the province's capital, Charlottetown.[6]
Perry is an Acadian who taught as a schoolteacher for 32 years after attaining a bachelor's degree in music education at the Université de Moncton in 1976, and has also served as the church organist at St. Simon & St. Jude Church in Tignish.[7] Perry, who is single, is the first unmarried lieutenant governor of Prince Edward Island.
Escutcheon: | Azure a rank of organ pipes Or charged with a treble clef Gules. |
Crest: | A blue jay rising Proper wearing a coronet flory and holding in its beak a mullet Or issuant from a coronet erablé Gules. |
Supporters: | Two Doberman pinschers each gorged of oregano and summer savoury leaves standing on a verdant base set with lady’s slipper flowers and oak leaves bordered by sandstone cliffs beaches and the sea Proper. |
Motto: | One Day At A Time [8] |