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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 71. Chapters: Neil Young, Carol Shields, Randy Bachman, Clara Hughes, Lynn Johnston, Gary Doer, Edward Schreyer, Loreena McKennitt, Sam Katz, Jennifer Botterill, Cindy Klassen, Maurice Strong, Burton Cummings, Lloyd Axworthy, Clarence Tillenius, Bramwell Tovey, Monty Hall, Gary Filmon, Dufferin Roblin, Howard Pawley, Sterling Lyon, Guy Maddin, Leo Mol, Elijah Harper, Saul Cherniack, John Harvard, Order of Manitoba, Izzy Asper, Phil Fontaine, Sol Kanee, Sylvia Ostry, Philip S. Lee, Henry Friesen, Ovide Mercredi, Evelyn Hart, Ken Ploen, Naranjan Dhalla, List of members of the Order of Manitoba, Tina Keeper, Ivan Eyre, Arnold Naimark, Mary Richard, Alfred Monnin, Clarence Barber, Pearl McGonigal, Peter M. Liba, Gail Asper, Arthur Mauro, W. Yvon Dumont, William John McKeag, Waldron Fox-Decent, Marjorie Blankstein, Helen Glass, Robert Beamish, Arnold Spohr, Bill Norrie, Em ke Szathmary, Baldur R. Stefansson, Kevin Patrick Kavanagh, Kathleen M. Richardson, James Burns. Excerpt: Gary Albert Doer, OM (born March 31, 1948) is a Canadian diplomat and politician from Manitoba, Canada. Since October 19, 2009, he has served as Canada's Ambassador to the United States. Doer previously served as the 20th Premier of Manitoba from 1999 to 2009, leading a New Democratic Party government. Gary Doer was born to a middle class family in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His background is German and Welsh. He graduated from St. Paul's High School and went on to study political science and sociology at the University of Manitoba for one year, but left to become a corrections officer at the Vaughan Street Detention Centre. He later rose to become deputy superintendent of the Manitoba Youth Centre. Doer's work environment was not always safe: he once had to deal with a hostage taking situation, and was attacked with a baseball bat on another occasion. Doer became pres...
