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His Honour the Honourable Norman Kwong, Order of Canada|CM, Alberta Order of Excellence|AOE, n?? Lim Kwong Yew, (林佐民, pinyin: L??n Zuǒm??n), (born 1929 in Calgary, Alberta|Calgary, Alberta) is a former professional athlete and is the current Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta|Lieutenant Governor of Alberta. After playing Canadian football|football in Western Canada High School, he went on to play for the Calgary Stampeders and then the Edmonton Eskimos, in the Canadian Football League. Nicknamed the "China Clipper", he won four Grey Cups during his CFL career and was the first Chinese Canadian to play in the league. He was named Canadian Athlete of the Year in 1955. He was inducted into the CFL Hall of Fame in 1969, the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame in 1975 and the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame in 1987. He is also a past president and general manager of the Calgary Stampeders, also of the Canadian Football League. He was a co-owner of the Calgary Flames in 1989 when they won their first Stanley Cup. After his career as an athlete, his public stature from sports, helped him move on to politics and government. In 1971 he ran for the Alberta Progressive Conservatives in Calgary Millican, failing to join his party when it almost swept Calgary, Alberta|Calgary and the rest of the province. In 1988 Kwong was made a Member of the Order of Canada and has served as the national chairman of the Canadian Consultative Council on Multiculturalism. Appointed to the post of Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta on January 20, 2005, Kwong replaced Lois Hole, who died in office on January 6, 2005. Kwong welcomed Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II to Alberta in June 2005 on a visit comemorating Alberta's first 100 years in confederation.
start box succession box| before=Lois Hole| title=List of Alberta lieutenant-governors|Alberta lieutenant-governor| after=Incumbent| years=2005- end box Alberta politics Category:1929 births|Kwong, Norman Category:Lieutenant Governors of Alberta|Kwong, Norman Category:Chinese Canadians|Kwong, Norman Category:Members of the Order of Canada|Kwong, Norman Category:Canadian Football League players|Kwong, Norman Category:Calgarians|Kwong, Norman pl:Norman Kwong This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Norman Kwong".
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