From The Ottawa Citizen...

The pomp and circumstance of being the Queen's representative never touched LeBlanc's core. Pichette, who also worked for LeBlanc at Rideau Hall, remembers a Sunday morning in February when the Governor General appeared in the foyer.

"There he was, the Governor General, with a wrench in his hand, wearing an awful checked lumberjack's sweater* and jeans — and he'd just been down trying to fix the furnace.

"He said, 'I had to do it myself. I don't want to trouble people on a Sunday.'"

* I assume this to be what we call a lumberjack shirt or doeskin shirt. It was a staple here for cold weather.