This collection of medals comprisies material made for special presentation to Governor-General Georges P. Vanier and Madame Pauline Vanier, not only during his term of office, but also from many other periods during his long and distinguished career as soldier, diplomat and statesman. Medals acquired or amassed by the Right Honourable George P. Vanier, military officer, diplomat and Governor-General of Canada (1959-1967), including the following: 100 Years of Italian Settlement in Canada; Major-General Honourable Sir Eugene Fiset, Lieutenant Gouverneur de la Province de Québec (1940); La Banque de France; Etienne Gilson; U.S.S.R. - C.C.C.P. Cobet Exhibition; Senat - République Francaise - Senateur Louis André; William Shakespeare 400th Anniversary Stratford Festival Theatre (1964); Vimy Ridge Memorial; 2 Jacques Cartier 1491-1557; Laval University; 2 La Federation Nationale des Plus Grands Invalides de Guerre; Université de Lyon; Ville de Lille; Jacques Cartier - French Economic Mission to Canada 9th-16th October (1962); Dieppe Chamber of Commerce.
Two Souvenir de la Resistance Rochelaise La Rochelle (1945); Aide Francaise; Loyola Medal; Royal Architectual Institute with clasp and collar; Poland's Millenium of Christianity, presented by Polish Scouts and Guides of Canada, November 5, 1966; Dieppe; Ville de Dieppe; Au Service de la Pensée Francaise; Louis Pasteur - Dole, Ville Natale de Pasteur; Centenaire de la Banque de l'Algerie et de la Tunisie (1951); 400th Anniversary of Vallette Condita (1966); Ville de Caen; Louis Pasteur - Institut Pasteur.
Sir Louis Hippolyte Lafontaine, 1807-1864; Inauguration de monument du Maréchal Haig (small); Inauguration de monument du Maréchal Haig (large); Pour la terre et le foyer; His Excellency the Governor Général and Her Royal Highness Princess Alice; Bluenose II; Toronto City Hall, September 13, 1965; Les Carrosses a cinq solz R.A.T.P. 1662-1962; S.M. La Reine Elizabeth II La France à 2 juin, 1953; Général Réquin, 1879-1953; Champlain 1603-1932 Compagnie Générale Transatlantique; Exposition Interalliée de l'Epargne (1945); Cent Ans La Compagnie Générale transatlantique, 1855-1955; Tri-centenaire de la Réunion de l'Alsace à la France, 1639-1939.
Two Eduoard Herriot; Archeologicae et Numismaticae Marianopolitanae Societatis Sigillum, 1862-1962; Chambre de Commerce de Chambery; Prise de Vimy Memorial Canadian Army, 1914-1918; Général de Larinat; Jacques Marquette Tri-centenaire, 1637-1937; Ch. Maurice-Beaupre, 1889-1953, Conservateur en chef des Musées de Versailler et des Trianous; Institut de France; Ville de Dijon (1949); Louis XV; Franco-American Colonia Castorland (1796); Robert Cavelier de la Salle, 1643-1687; Young man and dog; 6 Loyola College Medals; Chamber de Commerce de la Rochelle; U.S.S.R. Cobet Exhibition; Ludovicus Magnus Rex Christianissimus; Head of a Woman; 4 Lapel Pins; Religious Medal; French Resistance Medal, 1940-1945; One Indian Rupee, in honour of Jawaharlal Nehru (1964).
Medal inventory numbers 5927 to 5958, 5960 to 5999, 6051, 6052, 6055, 6405 and 1842.
