
50th Anniversary Of Order Of Canada Welcomes New Members
Musician/producer Daniel Lanois, Newfoundland singer-songwriter Alan Doyle, musician/producer Paul Mills, Montreal producer and former owner of Le Studio Andre Perry, musician/conductor William Earl Stafford, musicologist/broadcaster Sylvia L’Ecuyer, music promoter Francois Mario Labbe, and opera singer Tracy Dahl are among a list of 99 Canadians added to the Canada Day list of appointees to the Order of Canada.
The new member list includes 3 Companions (C.C.), 19 Officers (O.C.) and 77 Members (C.M.). Recipients will be invited to accept their insignia at a ceremony to be held at a later date.
The occasion also marked the 50th anniversary of the prestigious honours system. It was on July 1, 1967, that the Order of Canada received its first members.
Companions
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Peter Herrndorf*, arts leader
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Marshall Rothstein, retired Supreme Court justice
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The Prince of Wales (Extraordinary Companion category)
Officers
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Joseph Arvay, lawyer
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Yoshua Bengio, scientist
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Darleen Bogart, advocate
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Abdallah S. Daar, health researcher
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Denis Daneman, pediatrician-in-chief at the Hospital for Sick Children
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Mary Anne Eberts, advocate and litigator
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Richard Fadden, former CSIS director
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Chad Gaffield, historian
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Mark Messier, hockey player
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Michael Myers, actor
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Catherine O’Hara, actress
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William Siebens, philanthropist and business leader
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Christine Sinclair, soccer player
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Michele Stanton-Jean, bioethicist
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Alex Trebek, television host
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Hieu Truong, former Royal Canadian Mint engineering director
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Jean-Marc Vallee, director
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Gloria Cranmer Webster, Indigenous artist and educator
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Wayne G. Wouters, clerk of the Privy Council
Members
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Paul Albrechtsen, entrepreneur
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Judith G. Bartlett, doctor and Indigenous health advocate
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Rod Beattie, actor
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Ross J. Beaty, businessman and philanthropist
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Rene-Luc Blaquiere, Quebec tourism and culture promoter
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Rene Blouin, artist
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Louise Boisvert, community leader
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Denis Boivin, philanthropist
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Edwin Robert Bourget, marine ecology researcher
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Pierre Bourgie, philanthropist
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Dionne Brand, poet
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Geoffrey Cape, green space designer
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Chantal Caron, artist
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Graydon Carter, journalist and editor of Vanity Fair
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Meredith Chilton, art historian
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Joyce Churchill, autism volunteer and activist
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Susan Coyne, writer and actress
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Susan Elizabeth Crocker, philanthropist
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Cathy Crowe, street nurse
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Tracy Dahl, opera singer and mentor
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Michel Dallaire, business leader
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Peter B. Dent, medical educator
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Alan Doyle, musician
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Nady A. el-Guebaly, addictions researcher
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Liza Frulla, politician
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Brian F. Gable, editorial cartoonist
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Lise Gaboury-Diallo, author
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Emmanuelle Gattuso, philanthropist
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Douglas Maitland Gibson, former publisher and president of McClelland and Stewart
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Sibylla Hesse and Francois Godbout, philanthropists
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Rick Green, comedian and actor
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Diane Proulx-Guerrera and Salvatore Guerrera, health care philanthropists
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Ellen Hamilton, artist
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Robert Keith Harman, engineer and entrepreneur
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Christopher House, choreographer and dancer
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Mi’sel Joe, Indigenous leader
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Roxanne Joyal, Me to We Social Enterprise Inc. founder
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Daniel Kandelman, dentistry researcher
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Margo Kane, Indigenous performing artist
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Gregory S. Kealey, labour relations historian
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Francois Mario Labbe, Canadian music promoter
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Daniel Roland Lanois, artist and music producer
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Catherine Latimer, executive director John Howard Society of Canada
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Sylvia L’Ecuyer, musicologist and broadcaster
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Garry M. Lindberg, Canadarm developer and former Canadian Space Agency executive
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John Macfarlane, editor and journalist
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Pierre Maisonneuve, journalist
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Felix Maltais, science educator
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Patricia Mandy, Indigenous health care promoter
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Michael Massie, Inuit sculptor
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Peter Gould McAuslan, brewer
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Kim McConnell, agriculture promoter
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Marguerite Mendell, educator and anti-poverty researcher
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Paul Mills, musician and producer
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Saeed Mirza, structural engineer
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Anita Molzahn, nurse and researcher
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George Myhal, philanthropist
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Elise Pare-Tousignant, arts educator
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Terrance Paul, Indigenous leader
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Jean Perrault, former president of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities
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Andre Perry, record producer
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Jane Ash Poitras, First Nations visual artist
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Gail Erlick Robinson, women’s mental and physical health pioneer
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Judy Rogers, former Vancouver city manager
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Jacqueline Fanchette Clay Shumiatcher, philanthropist
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John H. Sims, former deputy minister of justice
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Gordon J. Smith, makeup artist
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William Earl Stafford, musician and conductor
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Bryan W. Tisdall, science educator
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William Waiser, Saskatchewan historian
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Lorne Waldman, lawyer
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Sharon Lynn Walmsley, HIV/AIDS researcher
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Meeka Walsh, arts critic and writer
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Bert Wasmund, metallurgical engineer
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William Wilder, philanthropist