Robert Watt | |
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Chief Herald of Canada | |
In office 1988 –June 26, 2007 | |
Monarch | Elizabeth II |
Governors General | |
Succeeded by | Claire Boudreau |
Deputy Chief Herald of Canada | |
In office 2006 –June 26,2007 | |
Monarch | Elizabeth II |
Governor General | Michaëlle Jean |
Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by | Bruce Patterson |
Saint-Laurent Herald | |
In office 2000 –June 26,2007 | |
Monarch | Elizabeth II |
Governors General | Adrienne Clarkson Michaëlle Jean |
Preceded by | Auguste Vachon |
Succeeded by | Bruce Patterson |
Personal details | |
Born | Robert Douglas Watt 1945 (age 78–79) Picton,Ontario,Canada |
Spouse | Alison Jean Logan (m. 1973) |
Alma mater | Carleton University (BA, MA) |
Occupation |
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Robert Douglas Watt LVO AIH FRHSC (born 1945) is a former Canadian museum curator and officer of arms who served as the first Chief Herald of Canada. [1] He was appointed at the foundation of the Canadian Heraldic Authority in 1988, and he was succeeded by Claire Boudreau in 2007.
Watt was born in Picton, Ontario, in 1945. He received a Bachelor of Arts in 1967 and a Master of Arts in 1968 from Carleton University. From 1969 to 1970, he was an archivist for the Public Archives of Canada. From 1971 to 1973, he was the Vancouver City Archivist.
In 1973, he was appointed as Curator of History at the Vancouver Centennial Museum (now the Vancouver Museum). He became Chief Curator in 1977 and was Director from 1980 to 1988. He was appointed as the first Chief Herald of Canada in 1988, and he served in that position until 2007.
He was appointed as a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO) in the 2008 New Year Honours and received his insignia from the Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace on May 16, 2008. Watt is also an Officer of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John and has been awarded the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal, the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal and the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Medal. He was made an Honorary Senior Fellow of Renison University College in 1990. [2]
He is currently the Honorary Lieutenant Colonel for 12 (Vancouver) Field Ambulance. [3] Watt served as a citizenship judge in Vancouver from September 2009 to September 2015. [4] He was president of the Académie Internationale d'Héraldique between 2015 and 2022.
In 2019, he wrote People Among the People: The Public Art of Susan Point, a non-fiction book describes the collected work of Susan Point through interviews and archival research. [5]
He is married to Alison Watt (née Logan), the former Director, University Secretariat of Simon Fraser University. [6]
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