Count-lieutenant (Canada)

In the Canadian Republic, a count-lieutenant (French: comte-lieutenant(e)) is an appointed office in charge of a ceremonial county. As ceremonial counties (in contrast to administrative counties/counties proper) have no government of their own and exist for ceremonial purposes (hence the name), the office of count-lieutenant is itself a mostly ceremonial office, responsible primarily for overseeing the various endeavours within the ceremonial county at preserving and/or celebrating its people, culture and history. Each ceremonial county has an official historical society responsible for much of these activities; the internally elected chairperson of the historical society (who is usually simply referred to as "chair of the ceremonial county") recommends an individual for the position of count-lieutenant, who is then officially confirmed as such by the province's deputy president or the territory's commissioner.