Vivienne Poy

Vivienne Poy

Vivienne Poy (née Lee; 利德蕙; Cantonese Yale: Ley6 Dak1-way6; Mandarin Pinyin: Lì Déhuì; born May 15, 1941 in Hong Kong) was appointed to the Senate of Canada in 1998. Poy came to Canada as a university student in 1959. She is the first Canadian senator of Asian ancestry. She graduated from St. Paul's Co-educational College, McGill University, Seneca College and University of Toronto.

For 14 years, Poy served as president of Vivienne Poy Mode, a fashion design company that she founded in 1981. She was selected as Chancellor of the University of Toronto in December 2002.

Poy is the daughter of Richard Charles Lee (利銘澤; pinyin: Lǐ Míngzé), who is the son of famous businessman Hysan Lee in Hong Kong, and Esther Yewpick Lee (黃瑤璧) and the sister-in-law of Adrienne Clarkson, who was Governor General of Canada from 1999 to 2005. Vivienne Poy's husband Dr. Neville Poy, a retired plastic surgeon, is Adrienne Clarkson's brother.

See also

*List of Ontario senators
*Chinese Canadian

External links

* [http://www.sen.parl.gc.ca/vpoy/ Senator Vivienne Poy's official web site]
* [http://www.asiawind.com/pub/forum/fhakka/mhonarc/msg02501.html The story behind the surname Poy]
* [http://www.parl.gc.ca/common/senmemb/senate/isenator_det.asp?senator_id=146&sortord=N&Language=E&M Political biography from the Library of Parliament]


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