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'''Charles Vincent Massey''' {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|PC|CH|CC|GCStJ|CD|FRSC(hon)}}{{#tag:ref|In Massey's [[Order of Canada]] citation on the website of the [[Governor General of Canada]], his [[post-nominal letters]] are listed as: PC, CH, CC.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Right Honourable Vincent Massey |url=https://www.gg.ca/en/honours/recipients/146-8008 |url-status=live |department=[Honour recipients] |publisher=Office of the Governor General of Canada |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220513051810/https://www.gg.ca/en/honours/recipients/146-8008 |archive-date=May 13, 2022}}</ref> Massey was, however, entitled to far more letters; his 1948 autobiography ''On Being Canadian'' lists him as: CH, [[Doctor of Civil Law|DCL]], [[Doctor of Laws|LLD(hon)]], FRSC. The [[Veterans Affairs Canada|Department of Veterans Affairs]] page on the [[Canadian Forces' Decoration]] mentions that Massey was the first governor general to be awarded the medal upon taking office, which entitled him to utilize the post-nominal letters ''CD''. The same page lists him as "The Right Honourable Vincent Massey, CC CH GCJ CD",<ref name="CD VAC">{{cite web |year=2001 |title=Canadian Forces' Decoration |url=http://www.veterans.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=collections/cmdp/mainmenu/group11/cfd |publisher=Veterans Affairs Canada |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110116082243/http://www.veterans.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=collections/cmdp/mainmenu/group11/cfd |archive-date=January 16, 2011}}</ref> although this listing
Massey was born into an influential [[Toronto]] family and was educated in [[Ontario]] and England, obtaining a degree in history 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 [[Cabinet of Canada|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|royal commission]] on the arts between 1949 and 1951, which resulted in the [[Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters and Sciences|Massey Report]] and subsequently the establishment of the [[Library and Archives Canada|National Library of Canada]] and the [[Canada Council|Canada Council of the Arts]], among other grant-giving agencies. In 1952 he was appointed Governor General by [[Monarchy of Canada|King]] [[George VI]] on the recommendation of [[Prime Minister of Canada|Prime Minister]] [[Louis St. Laurent]], to replace [[Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis|the Viscount Alexander of Tunis]] as [[viceroy]], and he occupied the post until succeeded by [[Georges Vanier]] in 1959.
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