OTTAWA - Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean will return to Haiti next week to see the devastation wrought by January's earthquake on the country where she was born.
Jean plans to visit the island nation March 8 and 9, travelling to the capital Port-au-Prince, the hard-hit town of Leogane and her ancestral hometown, Jacmel.
She then heads to Santo Domingo for a one-day state visit to the Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti.
The trip is likely to be an emotion-packed one for Jean, whose adopted daughter was also born in Haiti.
Jean broke down during a news conference the day following the 7.0 magnitude quake, which reduced much of Haiti to rubble and claimed the lives of an estimated 200,000 people.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper toured the devastation last month.
