Peter Liba
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Peter Liba | |
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22nd Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba | |
In office March 2, 1999 – June 30, 2004 | |
Monarch | Elizabeth II |
Governors General | Roméo LeBlanc Adrienne Clarkson |
Premier | Gary Filmon Gary Doer |
Preceded by | Yvon Dumont |
Succeeded by | John Harvard |
Personal details | |
Born | Peter Michael Liba May 10, 1940 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
Died | June 21, 2007 Lake of the Woods | (aged 67)
Spouse |
Shirley Ann Collett (m. 1963) |
Profession | journalist, businessman |
Peter Michael Liba CM OM (May 10, 1940 – June 21, 2007) was a Canadian journalist, businessman and 22nd Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba.
Biography
Liba was born in
Atomic Energy of Canada from 1981 to 1986 with Marc Lalonde
.
In 1993 he was appointed executive vice-president of
CanWest Global Communications Corp and was promoted to executive director of corporate affairs in 1997. He also served two terms as chairman of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters, and was also president of the Western Association of Broadcasters and the Broadcasters Association of Manitoba. President of his own company, Peli Ventures Inc., from 1975 he was actively involved in several social and philanthropic groups in the Winnipeg area. In 1984 Liba was appointed a member of the Order of Canada
and in 1998 was inducted into the Canadian Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame.
The appointment as Manitoba's lieutenant-governor may have been, in part, a reflection of
MP John Harvard
.
Liba died on June 21, 2007, at his cottage at Lake of the Woods.
References
Winnipeg Free Press, retrieved 22 January 2015
Arms
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External links
- Order of Canada Citation
- Obituary from CBC Manitoba