Robert Watt

For other people named Robert Watt, see Robert Watt (disambiguation).
The coat of arms for Robert Watt as the former Chief Herald of Canada

Robert Douglas Watt, LVO FRHSC (born 1945) was the first Chief Herald of Canada. He was appointed at the foundation of the Canadian Heraldic Authority, and 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 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. In 1988, he was appointed Chief Herald of Canada.

Robert Watt is married to Alison Watt, the former Director, University Secretariat of Simon Fraser University.

He was appointed 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. Mr. 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. Watt was made an Honorary Senior Fellow of Renison University College in 1990.[1]

He is currently the Honorary Lieutenant Colonel for 12 (Vancouver) Field Ambulance. Watt served as a Citizenship Judge in Vancouver from September 2009 to September 2015.[2]

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Notes

  1. Dr. Gail Cuthbert Brandt 'Bold and Courageous Dreams' Renison University College, 2014, pg. 132
  2. Profiles of citizenship judges

References

Heraldic offices
New title Chief Herald of Canada
1988 2007
Succeeded by
Claire Boudreau


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