Editing Hal Jackman

{{Short description|Canadian businessman}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix = [[The Honourable]]
| name             = Hal Jackman
| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=CAN|OC|OOnt|CD|size=100%}}
| image            = 
| caption          =
| order            = 25th
| office           = Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
| term_start       = December 11, 1991
| term_end         = January 24, 1997
| monarch          = [[Elizabeth II]]
| governor_general = [[Ray Hnatyshyn]]<br />[[Roméo LeBlanc]]
| premier          = [[Bob Rae]]<br />[[Mike Harris]]
| predecessor      = [[Lincoln Alexander]]
| successor        = [[Hilary Weston]]
| birth_name       = {{nowrap|Henry Newton Rowell Jackman}}
| birth_date       = {{birth date and age|1932|6|10}}
| birth_place      = [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], Canada
| spouse           = Maruja Trinidad Duncan
| parents          = [[Harry Jackman]]<br />Mary Coyne Rowell
| relatives        = [[Nancy Ruth]] (sister)<br />[[Newton Rowell]] (grandfather)
| occupation       = Businessman
}}

'''Henry Newton Rowell''' "'''Hal'''" '''Jackman''' {{post-nominals|country=CAN|OC|OOnt|CD}} (born June 10, 1932) is a Canadian billionaire businessman who served as the [[List of lieutenant governors of Ontario#Lieutenant Governors of Ontario, 1867-present|25th]] [[Lieutenant Governor of Ontario]] from 1991 to 1997.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/hal-jackman/?sh=1e4dfabd2b56|title = Hal Jackman|website = [[Forbes]]}}</ref> He is the son of former [[Member of Parliament (Canada)|Member of Parliament]] [[Harry Jackman]] and philanthropist Mary Rowell Jackman. His mother was the daughter of another former Member of Parliament, [[Newton Rowell]]. His sister, [[Nancy Ruth]], is a philanthropist who was appointed to the [[Senate of Canada|Senate]] in 2005.

==Life and career==
Jackman was educated at [[Pickering College]], the [[University of Toronto Schools]], [[Upper Canada College]] (where he was a member of [[Upper Canada College houses|Jackson's House]]), the [[University of Toronto Faculty of Law]], and the [[London School of Economics]].

He was the chairman of the board of [[National Trust Company]] and [[Empire Life|The Empire Life Insurance Company]], businesses primarily owned and controlled by his family. In 1964, he married Maruja Trinidad Duncan.

Jackman was the [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]] candidate in the [[Toronto]] riding of [[Rosedale (electoral district)|Rosedale]], which had been previously held by his father, in the [[1963 Canadian federal election|1963]], [[1965 Canadian federal election|1965]] and [[1974 Canadian federal election]]s. He lost on all three occasions to [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]] [[Donald Stovel Macdonald]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wRZIBAAAQBAJ&q=hal+jackman+%22progressive+conservative+candidate%22+for+ontario&pg=PT38|title=Thumper: The Memoirs of the Honourable Donald S. Macdonald|isbn=9780773581814|last1=MacDonald|first1=Donald S.|last2=McQueen|first2=Rod|date=October 2014}}</ref>

Jackman was a longtime fundraiser for the Progressive Conservatives, and he became a supporter of the [[Canadian Alliance]] when it was formed prior to the 2000 election. He was also an advocate of the [[Unite the Right (Canada)|Unite the Right]] movement, which resulted in the creation of the [[Conservative Party of Canada]].

==Viceregal appointment==
Jackman was appointed as Lieutenant Governor of Ontario by [[Governor General of Canada|Governor General]] [[Ray Hnatyshyn]] in 1991, on the advice of Prime Minister [[Brian Mulroney]], and he became a Member of the [[Order of Canada]] the same year. He focused on support for the arts, history and national unity during his time in office.

He served as Lieutenant Governor until 1997 and was then appointed to the [[Order of Ontario]] in 1998. He was promoted to Officer in the Order of Canada in the year 2000.

==Other distinctions==
Jackman did not serve in the military, but he received the [[Canadian Forces' Decoration]] in recognition of his service as an honorary colonel of [[the Governor General's Horse Guards]], a Toronto militia unit.

He was named chancellor of the [[University of Toronto]] in 1997. Following his retirement from that post, he was elected as the fourth [[Visitor]] of [[Massey College]].

==Coat of arms==
{{Infobox COA wide
|image = Henry Newton Rowell Jackman Escutcheon.png
|escutcheon = Per chevron Gules and Or in chief a sun between two spur-rowels also Or in base issuant from barry wavy Argent and Azure a mount Vert thereon an oak tree proper fructed Or<ref>{{cite web|url=https://reg.gg.ca/heraldry/pub-reg/project-pic.asp?lang=e&ProjectID=1611&ProjectElementID=5399 |title=Henry Newton Rowell JACKMAN |publisher=Canadian Heraldic Authority |access-date=28 May 2020}}</ref>
|crest = A griffin segreant Gules holding in the dexter claw a representation of the mace of the House of Commons of Canada and in the sinister claw a morning star battle mace Or
|motto = ''Optima Conserva'' ([[Latin]] for 'Preserve the best things')
}}

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.gg.ca/honour.aspx?id=2952&t=12&ln=Jackman Order of Canada Citation]

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[[Category:Lieutenant governors of Ontario]]
[[Category:Members of the Order of Ontario]]
[[Category:Members of the United Church of Canada]]
[[Category:Officers of the Order of Canada]]
[[Category:University of Toronto alumni]]
[[Category:Upper Canada College alumni]]
[[Category:Progressive Conservative Party of Canada candidates for the Canadian House of Commons]]
[[Category:Ontario candidates for Member of Parliament]]
[[Category:Candidates in the 1963 Canadian federal election]]
[[Category:Candidates in the 1965 Canadian federal election]]
[[Category:Candidates in the 1974 Canadian federal election]]