page_title: Jeanne Sauvé
section_title: Honorific eponyms
hierarchical_section_title: Jeanne Sauvé / Titles, styles, honours, and arms / Honours / Honorific eponyms
caption_attribution_description: English: Fort Sauve, Royal Military College of Canada
context_page_description: Jeanne Mathilde Sauvé PC CC CMM CD was a Canadian politician, and journalist who served as Governor General of Canada, the 23rd since Canadian Confederation.
  Sauvé was born in Prud'homme, Saskatchewan, and educated in Ottawa and Paris, prior to working as a journalist for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. She was then elected to the House of Commons in 1972, whereafter she served as a minister of the Crown until 1980, when she became the Speaker of the House of Commons. She was in 1984 appointed as governor general by Queen Elizabeth II, on the recommendation of Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau, to replace Edward Schreyer as vicereine, and she occupied the post until succeeded by Ray Hnatyshyn in 1990. She was the first woman to serve as Canada's governor general and, while her appointment as the Queen's representative was initially and generally welcomed, Sauvé caused some controversy during her time as vicereine, mostly due to increased security around the office, as well as an anti-monarchist attitude towards the position.
  On November 27, 1972, Sauvé was sworn into the Queen's Privy Council for Canada.
context_section_description: Awards
   Alberta: Jeanne Sauvé Undergraduate Scholarship, University of Alberta, Edmonton
   Canada: Jeanne Sauvé Fair Play Award
   Canada: Governor General Jeanne Sauvé Fellowship
   Canada: Jeanne Sauvé Trophy
  Geographic locations
   Quebec: Jeanne-Sauvé Park, Montreal
   Quebec: Jeanne-Sauvé District, Outremont
  Buildings
   Ontario: Fort Sauvé, Kingston
  Schools
   Manitoba: Collège Jeanne-Sauvé, Winnipeg
   Ontario: École publique Jeanne-Sauvé, Sudbury
   Ontario: Ecole Jeanne-Sauvé, Orléans
   Ontario: Jeanne Sauvé Catholic School, Stratford
   Ontario: Jeanne Sauvé French Immersion Public School, London
   Ontario: Jeanne Sauvé French Immersion Public School, St. Catharines
   Ontario: Jeanne Sauvé French Immersion Public School,  Oshawa
  Organisations
   Ontario: Jeanne Sauvé Family Service
   Quebec: Sauvé Foundation
   Quebec: Jeanne Sauvé House
  Events
   Quebec: Jeanne Sauvé Lecture Series
caption: Fort Sauvé, Royal Military College of Canada
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