Order of Canada appointee Andre Perry with John Lennon at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal
Order of Canada appointee Andre Perry with John Lennon at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal

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

  • Peter Herrndorf*, arts leader

  • Marshall Rothstein, retired Supreme Court justice

  • The Prince of Wales (Extraordinary Companion category)

Officers

  • Joseph Arvay, lawyer

  • Yoshua Bengio, scientist

  • Darleen Bogart, advocate

  • Abdallah S. Daar, health researcher

  • Denis Daneman, pediatrician-in-chief at the Hospital for Sick Children

  • Mary Anne Eberts, advocate and litigator

  • Richard Fadden, former CSIS director

  • Chad Gaffield, historian

  • Mark Messier, hockey player

  • Michael Myers, actor

  • Catherine O’Hara, actress

  • William Siebens, philanthropist and business leader

  • Christine Sinclair, soccer player

  • Michele Stanton-Jean, bioethicist

  • Alex Trebek, television host

  • Hieu Truong, former Royal Canadian Mint engineering director

  • Jean-Marc Vallee, director

  • Gloria Cranmer Webster, Indigenous artist and educator

  • Wayne G. Wouters, clerk of the Privy Council

Members

  • Paul Albrechtsen, entrepreneur

  • Judith G. Bartlett, doctor and Indigenous health advocate

  • Rod Beattie, actor

  • Ross J. Beaty, businessman and philanthropist

  • Rene-Luc Blaquiere, Quebec tourism and culture promoter

  • Rene Blouin, artist

  • Louise Boisvert, community leader

  • Denis Boivin, philanthropist

  • Edwin Robert Bourget, marine ecology researcher

  • Pierre Bourgie, philanthropist

  • Dionne Brand, poet

  • Geoffrey Cape, green space designer

  • Chantal Caron, artist

  • Graydon Carter, journalist and editor of Vanity Fair

  • Meredith Chilton, art historian

  • Joyce Churchill, autism volunteer and activist

  • Susan Coyne, writer and actress

  • Susan Elizabeth Crocker, philanthropist

  • Cathy Crowe, street nurse

  • Tracy Dahl, opera singer and mentor

  • Michel Dallaire, business leader

  • Peter B. Dent, medical educator

  • Alan Doyle, musician

  • Nady A. el-Guebaly, addictions researcher

  • Liza Frulla, politician

  • Brian F. Gable, editorial cartoonist

  • Lise Gaboury-Diallo, author

  • Emmanuelle Gattuso, philanthropist

  • Douglas Maitland Gibson, former publisher and president of McClelland and Stewart

  • Sibylla Hesse and Francois Godbout, philanthropists

  • Rick Green, comedian and actor

  • Diane Proulx-Guerrera and Salvatore Guerrera, health care philanthropists

  • Ellen Hamilton, artist

  • Robert Keith Harman, engineer and entrepreneur

  • Christopher House, choreographer and dancer

  • Mi’sel Joe, Indigenous leader

  • Roxanne Joyal, Me to We Social Enterprise Inc. founder

  • Daniel Kandelman, dentistry researcher

  • Margo Kane, Indigenous performing artist

  • Gregory S. Kealey, labour relations historian

  • Francois Mario Labbe, Canadian music promoter

  • Daniel Roland Lanois, artist and music producer

  • Catherine Latimer, executive director John Howard Society of Canada

  • Sylvia L’Ecuyer, musicologist and broadcaster

  • Garry M. Lindberg, Canadarm developer and former Canadian Space Agency executive

  • John Macfarlane, editor and journalist

  • Pierre Maisonneuve, journalist

  • Felix Maltais, science educator

  • Patricia Mandy, Indigenous health care promoter

  • Michael Massie, Inuit sculptor

  • Peter Gould McAuslan, brewer

  • Kim McConnell, agriculture promoter

  • Marguerite Mendell, educator and anti-poverty researcher

  • Paul Mills, musician and producer

  • Saeed Mirza, structural engineer

  • Anita Molzahn, nurse and researcher

  • George Myhal, philanthropist

  • Elise Pare-Tousignant, arts educator

  • Terrance Paul, Indigenous leader

  • Jean Perrault, former president of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities

  • Andre Perry, record producer

  • Jane Ash Poitras, First Nations visual artist

  • Gail Erlick Robinson, women’s mental and physical health pioneer

  • Judy Rogers, former Vancouver city manager

  • Jacqueline Fanchette Clay Shumiatcher, philanthropist

  • John H. Sims, former deputy minister of justice

  • Gordon J. Smith, makeup artist

  • William Earl Stafford, musician and conductor

  • Bryan W. Tisdall, science educator

  • William Waiser, Saskatchewan historian

  • Lorne Waldman, lawyer

  • Sharon Lynn Walmsley, HIV/AIDS researcher

  • Meeka Walsh, arts critic and writer

  • Bert Wasmund, metallurgical engineer

  • William Wilder, philanthropist

 

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