“The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness.”

— Vincent Massey

Address at the Convocation of the University of Manitoba, October 28, 1952
Speaking Of Canada - (1959)

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Governor General of Canada 1887–1967

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