TORONTO — Former Ontario lieutenant-governor and diplomat James Bartleman's career took him to nearly every corner of the world, but it seemed he was never far from his impoverished Port Carling, Ont., upbringing and pride in his Indigenous roots.
Bartleman died this week at the age of 83, current Lt.-Gov. Elizabeth Dowdeswell announced Thursday. He used his time in the viceregal position to fight racism and discrimination and to uplift young Indigenous people, she said, including launching the first Lieutenant Governor's Book Drive, which collected 1.2 million books for First Nations schools and Native Friendship Centres.
Bartleman was born in the Muskoka region, and wrote in several books about the traumatic racism he experienced growing up. Bartleman got what he calls his"big break" as a teenager when the caretaker for Robert Clause, an American with a summer estate on Lake Joseph in Muskoka, offered him a summer job. He spent seven summers working there, and after Bartleman finished Grade 12, Clause offered to fund higher education for Bartleman.
Bartleman served as a diplomat for more than 30 years, including as ambassador to Cuba, ambassador to Israel, ambassador to the European Union, and ambassador to the North Atlantic Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
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