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Donald Stewart Ethell (born July 23, 1937) is a retired Canadian Army colonel and was the 17th Lieutenant Governor of Alberta. ==Career== Ethell was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1937, the son of a nurse and a navy chief petty officer.〔(Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Alberta Order of Excellence ) 〕 He enlisted in the Canadian Army in 1955 after being rejected by the Navy and rejected from the Air Force.〔(Bennett, Dean. "Retired colonel ecstatic to become Queen’s right hand in Alberta." ) ''The Globe and Mail'', May 9, 2010.〕 Ethell enlisted as a rifleman in the Queen's Own Rifles of Canada at the age of 17 and underwent basic training at the Currie Barracks in Calgary. He served in West Germany during the Cold War and rebadged to Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry in 1970 when the Queen's Own Rifles of Canada was removed from regular army service. He rose through the non-commissioned officer ranks to warrant officer until he was commissioned as an officer in 1972. Demonstrating an ability for leadership, Ethell eventually rose to the rank of colonel. He eventually became a veteran of 14 international peacekeeping deployments, with service in Cyprus, (Lebanon ), Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Israel, Central America and the Balkans. Following his military retirement in 1993,〔(Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Meet the LG ) 〕 Ethell became involved in humanitarian efforts, including CARE Canada. He is an officer in the Order of Canada and the Order of Military Merit and a member of the Alberta Order of Excellence.
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