* Jeanne Sauve; Canada’s First Woman Governor General

Jeanne Sauve, 70, Canada’s first woman governor general and Speaker of the House of Commons. Sauve served as governor general--the Queen of England’s representative in Canada--from 1984 to 1990. First elected to Parliament in 1972 from a Montreal-area district, Sauve became minister of state for science and technology in November, 1972. She also served as environment and communications minister. Sauve was the first woman to serve as Speaker of the House of Commons, holding the job from 1980 until she was appointed governor general in 1984 by former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. As Speaker, she was credited with cleaning up the administration of the House of Commons, tightening the bureaucracy that serviced members of Parliament and opening the first day-care center for their children. In Montreal on Tuesday after a long hospitalization for undisclosed causes.