On the afternoon of September 8, 2022, the Governor General of Canada, the Right Honourable Mary May Simon, advised the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, the Honourable Elizabeth Dowdeswell, that the reign of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, whose reign as Queen of Canada and her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth and Defender of the Faith of more than 70 years, had ended by reason of demise of the Crown.