Christopher McCreery

McCreery's published works include:

• "The Order of Canada; Its Origins, History and Development" (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005)
• "The Canadian Honours System, 1st edition" (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2005)
• "On Her Majesty's Service; Royal Honours and Recognition in Canada" (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2007)
• "The Maple Leaf and the White Cross; A History of St. John Ambulance and the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in Canada" (Toronto Dundurn Press, 2008)
• "The Beginner's Guide to Canadian Honours" (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2008)
• "The Authentic Voice of Canada: R.B. Bennett Speeches in the House of Lords, 1941-1947" (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009).
• "The Canadian Forces' Decoration" (Department of National Defence, 2010)
• "Canadian Symbols of Authority: Maces, Chains and Rods of Office" (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2011)
• "Commemorative Medals of The Queen's Reign in Canada, 1952-2012" (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2012)
• "Maintiens Le Droit: Recognizing Service: A History of the RCMP Long Service Medal" (Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 2014)
• "Savoir Faire, Savoir Vivre: Rideau Club 1865–2015" (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2014)
• "The Canadian Honours System, 2nd edition" (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2015)
• "Fifty Years Honouring Canadians: The Order of Canada, 1967-2017" (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2016)
• "The Order of Canada: Genesis of an Honours System" (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017)

He also contributed a number of Commonwealth entries to Burkes Peerage and Gentry's "World Orders of Knighthood and Merit" (2006).

A number of chapters related to the role of the Governor General, reforms to the Canadian honours system and the modern role of the Provincial Lieutenant Governors were contributed by McCreery to "The Evolving Canadian Crown" (Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, Queen's University, 2012) and "Canada and the Crown: Essays on Constitutional Monarchy" (Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, Queen's University, 2013).

McCreery's most recent work is a pictorial history of Government House (Nova Scotia):

• "Government House Halifax: A Place of History and Gathering" (Fredericton: Goose Lane Editions 2020).[1]

McCreery is a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, a Fellow of the Centre for the Study of Democracy at Queen's University, a Fellow and Director of the Royal Heraldry Society of Canada, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a member of the Champlain Society, Orders and Medals Research Society, the Canadian Historical Association, and the Writers' Union of Canada. Since 2005, he has served as the National Historian for St. John Ambulance Canada and the Venerable Order of Saint John in Canada.

In February 2009, McCreery was appointed Private Secretary to the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia. During the 2010 Royal Tour of Canada, he was appointed a Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO) by Queen Elizabeth II in Halifax.[2]

McCreery previously served as a Senior Advisor to the Leader of the Government in the Senate, Marjory LeBreton (2007–2009); Senior Advisor to the Speaker of the Senate, Noel Kinsella (2006–2007); and Executive Assistant to Michael J. L. Kirby (2004–2006).

In 2010, McCreery was appointed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper to the Governor General Consultation Committee,[3] a special committee convened to recommend a successor to Michaëlle Jean. The panel recommended David Johnston.

In November 2010, McCreery submitted testimony to the Senate Standing Committee on National Security and Defence outlining the way in which the Maritime Command element of the Canadian Forces could be renamed the Royal Canadian Navy. This advice was ultimately followed by Minister of National Defence Peter MacKay on 15 August 2011, when the designation Royal Canadian Navy was returned to official use, along with Royal Canadian Air Force and Canadian Army.[4]

In April 2012, McCreery was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Canadian Museum of History / Canadian War Museum for a four-year term.[5]

• Official website
• McCreery's Order of Canada history website | www.orderofcanada50.ca
• Writers' Union of Canada biography | https://www.writersunion.ca/member/christopher-mccreely]