page_title: Vincent Massey
section_title: Honorific eponyms
hierarchical_section_title: Vincent Massey / Honours / Honorific eponyms
caption_attribution_description: English: Vincent Massey Park in Ottawa, Canada.
context_page_description: Charles Vincent Massey PC CH CC CD FRSC was a Canadian lawyer and diplomat who served as the Governor General of Canada, the 18th since Confederation. Massey was the first Governor General of Canada who was born in Canada.
  Massey was born into an influential Toronto family and was educated in Ontario and England, obtaining a degree in law and befriending future prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King while studying at the University of Oxford. He was commissioned into the military in 1917 for the remainder of the First World War and, after a brief stint in the Canadian Cabinet, began his diplomatic career, serving in envoys to the United States and United Kingdom. Upon his return to Canada in 1946, Massey headed a royal commission on the arts between 1949 and 1951, which resulted in the Massey Report and subsequently the establishment of the National Library of Canada and the Canada Council of the Arts, among other grant-giving agencies. In 1952 he was appointed Governor General by King George VI on the recommendation of Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, to replace the Viscount Alexander of Tunis as viceroy, and he occupied the post until succeeded by Georges Vanier in 1959.
context_section_description: Events
  : Massey Lectures
  Geographic locations
   Alberta: Mount Massey
   Newfoundland and Labrador: Massey Drive
   Ontario: Vincent Massey Park, Ottawa
   Saskatchewan: Massey Place, Saskatoon
   Saskatchewan: Massey Park, Saskatoon
  Buildings
   British Columbia: Vincent Massey Theatre (later Massey Theatre), New Westminster
   Ontario: Massey Building, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston
  Massey Library, within the Massey Building
   Ontario: Massey Quadrangle, Upper Canada College, Toronto
   Ontario: Vincent Massey Memorial Centre, Bewdley
   Ontario: Massey House, Trinity College, Toronto
   Quebec: Place Vincent Massey, Gatineau
   Quebec: Massey Building, Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu
  Schools
   Alberta: Vincent Massey Junior High School, Calgary
   Alberta: Vincent Massey School, Medicine Hat
   Manitoba: Vincent Massey High School, Brandon
   Manitoba: Vincent Massey Collegiate, Winnipeg
   New Brunswick: Vincent Massey Elementary School, St. Andrews
   Ontario: Vincent Massey Public School, Bowmanville
   Ontario: Vincent Massey Public School, Cornwall (closed)
   Ontario: Vincent Massey Collegiate Institute, Etobicoke (closed)
   Ontario: Vincent Massey Public School, Etobicoke
   Ontario: Vincent Massey Public School, Etobicoke (closed)
   Ontario: Vincent Massey School, Hamilton
   Ontario: Vincent Massey Public School, North Bay
   Ontario: Vincent Massey Public School, Oshawa
   Ontario: Vincent Massey Public School, Ottawa
   Ontario: Vincent Massey School, Ottawa
   Ontario: Massey College, University of Toronto, Toronto
   Ontario: Vincent Massey Secondary School, Windsor
   Quebec: Vincent Massey Collegiate, Montreal
   Quebec: Vincent Massey Elementary School, Saint-Hubert
   Saskatchewan: Vincent Massey Community School, Prince Albert
   Saskatchewan: Ecole Massey School, Regina
   Saskatchewan: Vincent Massey School, Saskatoon
   Saskatchewan: Vincent Massey Public School, Saskatoon
  Civic structures
   Ontario: Massey Road, Canton
caption: Vincent Massey Park in Ottawa
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