About the Author

The Honourable David C Onley is a Canadian former journalist who served as the 28th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 2007 until 2014. His seven-year term makes him the longest serving Lieutenant Governor of Ontario since Albert Edward Matthews and the province's second longest serving viceroy since Confederation. As the province's first Lieutenant Governor with a disability, Onley said he would use his vice-regal position to help remove physical barriers to Ontario's 1.5 million people with disabilities, as well as focus on other issues affecting the disabled, including obstacles to employment and housing. Prior to his viceregal appointment, Onley was a television journalist. He worked primarily for Citytv as a weather reporter, before moving on to cover science and technology stories. Later on, he worked with the 24-hour news station CablePulse 24 as a news anchor and host of a weekly technology series. A published author, he was founding president of the Aerospace Heritage Foundation of Canada. He is married to Ruth Ann Onley, a Christian music performer, author and writer.