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Place of Birth: St. Laurent, Manitoba, Canada
About Yvon Dumont
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- Yvon Dumont, (born January 21, 1951) is a Manitoba politician and office-holder.
- In 1993, he became the first member of Manitoba's Métis community to be appointed as the province's 21st Lieutenant Governor.
- He was born in St.
- Laurent, Manitoba. He became involved in the Manitoba Metis Federation in 1967, and became its Director for the Interlake region in 1972.
- He was chosen Executive Vice-President of the Federation in 1973, and served as its President from 1984 to 1993. Dumont was also a founding member of the Native Council of Canada in 1972, and served as President of the Métis National Council from 1988 to 1993.
- He has participated as a representative of the MMF at Canadian First Ministers' conference, and has been actively involved in constitutional debates concerning Canada's aboriginal and Métis peoples.
- Dumont has rejected the integration of Métis services into larger aboriginal institutions, expressing concern that Métis distinctiveness could be lost. Dumont has also been a municipal councillor in St.
- Laurent, and was on the Board of Governors for the University of Manitoba.
- He received a Manitoba Metis Federation Award in 1993, and a National Aboriginal Achievement Award, now the Indspire Awards, in 1996. Dumont's appointment as Lt.
- Governor of Manitoba coincided with a national reappraisal of Métis leader Louis Riel's role in the province's creation.
- Once regarded as a rebel and an outlaw, Riel has in recent years been accepted as a Father of Confederation for his role in establishing a provisional government in the Red River Colony.
- The appointment of Dumont as Lt.
- Governor undoubtedly reflected this changed perspective. The position of Lt.
- Governor is largely ceremonial, and Dumont had very little influence over the Progressive Conservative government of Gary Filmon. Dumont was appointed to the Order of Manitoba in 2001.
- He ran again for the leadership of the MMF in 2003, but was defeated by David Chartrand.
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