Gordon Arnaud Winter Explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Honourable
Gordon Arnaud Winter
Order:6th
Office:Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland
Predecessor:Ewart Harnum
Successor:Tony Paddon
Term Start:July 2, 1974
Term End:July 10, 1981
Governor General:Jules Léger
Edward Schreyer
Premier:Frank Moores
Brian Peckford
Birth Date:6 October 1912
Birth Place:St. John's, Dominion of Newfoundland
Death Place:St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

Gordon Arnaud Winter, (October 6, 1912  - August 1, 2003) was the sixth lieutenant governor of Newfoundland from 1974 to 1981.[1]

In 1974, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

In 1989, he headed the Winter Commission, the diocesan commission appointed by bishop Alphonsus Liguori Penney to undertake an inquiry about the clerical child sexual abuse scandal at Mount Cashel orphanage.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Winter, Hon. Gordon Arnaud (1912-2003). August 2004. Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Web Site Project. https://web.archive.org/web/20070612022738/http://www.heritage.nf.ca/govhouse/governors/g74.html. June 12, 2007. April 17, 2019.