Art historian, Senator.
Born at Winnipeg on 15 May 1948, one of three children of Constance White (1908-1999) and Richard Gilchrist Glover (1909-1985), she became an art historian and served as Curator (1970-1980) and Director (1999-2004) of the Winnipeg Art Gallery and Director of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (1980-1999). She also founded and was Director of the Buhler Gallery at the St. Boniface General Hospital (2007-2016).
She was a member of the Board for the National Gallery of Canada (2005-2009) and Canada Council for the Arts (1990-1993), a member of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation and Manitoba Rhodes Scholarship Committee, an Adjunct Professor of Art History at the University of Winnipeg (2011-2017), and Chair of the Board of Governors for the University of Manitoba (2013-2016). She served in the Senate of Canada (2016-2023). She is presently the Manitoba representative on the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.
In recognition of her service, she was named a YMCA-YWCA Women of Distinction Award (2002) and a Manitoba Women Trailblazer (2021). She received honorary doctorates from the University of Manitoba (2021) and York University (2025), a 125th Anniversary of Canadian Confederation Medal (1992), and a Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal (2002).
On 28 April 1973, she married John Alexander Bovey at Ottawa, Ontario and they had two daughters. After his death, she married John Harvard.
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Mitchell House (45 East Gate, Winnipeg)
“Glover - Bovey,” Winnipeg Free Press, 31 March 1973, page 26.
Death registrations [Richard Gilchrist Glover, Constance White Glover], British Columbia Vital Statistics.
Obituary [Richard Gilchrist Glover], Winnipeg Free Press, 26 September 1985, page 66.
Biography, PatriciaBovey.com.
“Four distinguished leaders to receive honorary degrees at Fall Convocation,” York University, 6 October 2025.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 1 November 2025
