The President of the Privy Council also has the largely ceremonial duty of presiding over meetings of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, a body which only convenes in full for affairs of state such as the accession of a new Sovereign or the marriage of the Prince of Wales or heir presumptive to the Throne (see Monarchy in Canada).
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Accordingly the last time the President of the Privy Council had to preside over a meeting of the Privy Council was in 1981 on the occasion of HRH The Prince of Wales' engagement to Lady Diana Spencer.
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In 1873, Alexander Morris was one of three Commissioners empowered by the Privy Council to make a treaty that would open up safe passage from Upper Canada via Lake Superior and the Rainy and Winnipeg Rivers to the Prairies.
Postnominals granted under the Canadian honour system include PC (Privy Councillor, granted to federal cabinet ministers and some other senior politicians including leaders of opposition parties); CM (Member of the Order of Canada); OC (Officer of the Order of Canada); and CC (Companion of the Order of Canada, the highest rank of that order).
Charles Avery Dunning, PC (July 31, 1885 – October 1, 1958) was born in Croft, Leicestershire, England.
Frederic Erskine Bronson, PC (December 4, 1886 – April 1953) was a leading Ottawa businessman and chairman of the Federal District Commission, forerunner of the National Capital Commission, a government body empowered with planning Canada's National Capital Region of Ottawa-Hull and Gatineau.
John Mercer Reid, PC (born February 8, 1937) is the former Information Commissioner of Canada, former president of the Canadian Nuclear Association, and a former politician.
Marjory LeBreton, PC (born July 4, 1940) is a former Leader of the Government in the Canadian Senate, a position of cabinet-rank; and past national chair of Mothers Against Drunk Driving in Canada.
### Marjory LeBreton PC, Leader of the Government in the Senate (February 6, 2006)
On Canada Day in 1992, which also marked the 125th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, Governor General Ramon Hnatyshyn appointed eighteen prominent Canadians to the Privy Council, including former Premier of Ontario David Peterson, retired hockey star Maurice Richard, and businessman Conrad Black.
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Provincial premiers are not commonly appointed to the QPC, but have been made members on special occasions, such as the centennial of Confederation in 1967 and the patriation of the constitution of Canada in 1982.
Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley, PC, KCMG (May 8, 1818 – June 25, 1896) was a Canadian politician and one of the Fathers of Confederation.
There were several appeals to Ottawa and a last-minute plea to Governor General Earl Grey who, on the advice of the Privy Council, declined commutation.