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A Hakka raised in Ontario, Clarkson's ancestry is from Taishan, Guangdong, ChinaThis article is on the geographic and cultural entity. For other meanings, see China (disambiguation). China ( Traditional Chinese: , Simplified Chinese: , Hanyu Pinyin: Zhongguo, Wade-Giles: Chung-kuo) is a country in continental East Asia with some oute. Since her father was a British subject, he was a part of a prisoner-of-war exchange with the Japanese Imperial Forces. Her family subsequently came to CanadaCanada historically the Dominion of Canada is the second-largest, and northernmost, country in the world. It is a decentralized federation of 10 provinces and 3 territories, governed as a constitutional monarchy, and formed in 1867 through an act of Confe, using the "special circumstances" clause in the Chinese Immigration Act of 1923The Chinese Immigration Act 1923 better known in the Chinese-Canadian community as the Chinese Exclusion Act was an act passed by the Federal Government of Canada, virtually banning all forms of Chinese immigration to Canada. After every efforts was made that allowed Chinese into Canada during the Second World War in 1942Events January January 1 World War II: The word " United Nations" is first officially used to describe the Allied pact. January 2 World War II: Manila is captured by Japanese forces. January 5 Amy Johnson disappears in flight over River Thames estuary ass. Clarkson is the daughter of William and Ethel Poy (伍英才).
Clarkson studied at OttawaThis article is about the capital city of Canada. For other meanings see Ottawa (disambiguation). City of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada ( In Detail) ( In Detail) Motto: Advance Ottawa/Ottawa en avant Area: 2,778. Population Total (2001) Cdn. CD Rank: Cdn. Rank: public schools, until 19561956 is a leap year starting on Sunday. see link for calendar) Events January January 1 End of Anglo- Egyptian Condominium in Sudan. January 16 President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt vows to reconquer Palestine January 26 1956 Winter Olympic Games open in, when she studied in the University of TorontoMotto Velut arbor aevo ("As a tree with the passage of time") Established 1827 School type Public President Frank Iacobucci (interim) Location Toronto, Ontario, Canada Enrollment 63,109 (48,863 at St. George Campus, 6,834 at UTSC, 7,412 at UTM) Faculty 2,'s Trinity College. It is during this time that she won a governor-general's medal in English. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1960, after which she travelled with her parents to East and Southeast Asia.
She began working on her Master's degree in 1962, with a thesis on George Meredith's poems. She married next year to Stephen Clarkson , a University of Toronto political science professor, until their divorce in 1975. The couple had two children, Blaise and Kyra. After the divorce, the children became estranged from their mother and now rarely speak to her.
Her post-graduate studies were done at the Sorbonne.
She is well-known from her work in broadcasting, having hosted and produced several shows for the CBC; these include Take Thirty, Adrienne at Large, the 5th estate, Adrienne Clarkson's Summer Festival, and Adrienne Clarkson Presents. She was the president and publisher of McClelland and Stewart from 1987 to 1988 and has written several books.
In the early 1980s she served a term as the province of Ontario's representative in Paris.
In 1992 she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 1999.
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