Lieutenant Governor of Ontario Elizabeth Dowdeswell will be spending much of Tuesday (August 25) visiting the Peterborough area.
Hosted by Peterborough & the Kawarthas Tourism, she will first meet with Peterborough Mayor Dianne Therrien and Peterborough County Warden J. Murray Jones.
She will then visit local tourism destinations that have safely re-opened during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Her itinerary includes visits to Rolling Grape Vineyard and ZimArt’s Rice Lake Gallery in Bailieboro, The Silver Bean Café in downtown Peterborough, and Harley Farms and Lang Pioneer Village Museum in Keene.
Elizabeth Dowdeswell is Ontario’s 29th Lieutenant Governor. As the representative of Her Majesty The Queen, she carries out constitutional and ceremonial duties and facilitates citizen and community engagement.
She took office in later 2014. She is an officer of the Order of Canada, a member of the Order of Ontario, and the recipient of numerous distinctions and fellowships.