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A list of the 88 new appointees to the Order of Canada

OTTAWA — Governor General Mary Simon has made 88 new appointments to the Order of Canada. Here is the list of notable Canadians: Companion Pierre Boivin — Montreal (This is a promotion within the order.
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Governor General Mary Simon arrives for a ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Patrick Doyle

OTTAWA — Governor General Mary Simon has made 88 new appointments to the Order of Canada. Here is the list of notable Canadians:

Companion

Pierre Boivin — Montreal (This is a promotion within the order.)

Officers

Stephen Aaron Arshinoff — Toronto

Sylvia Beth Bashevkin — Toronto

Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta — Toronto

Ronald Frank Burnett — Vancouver (This is a promotion within the order.)

Stan Douglas — Vancouver

Dafna Debora Gladman — Toronto

Carlton Lloyd Gyles — Guelph, Ont.

Nada Jabado — Montreal

Maureen Ann Jennings — Toronto

Dominique Alice Lemieux, O.C. (deceased) — Saint-Étienne-de-Bolton, Que.

Randy Lennox — Oakville, Ont.

Tania Murray Li — Toronto

Marco Antonio Marra — Vancouver

David Richard McCann — Vancouver

Jeffrey John McDonnell — Vernon, B.C.

Derek Muir — Grimsby, Ont.

Stanley Nattel — Montreal

General Walter John Natynczyk (retired) — Hartington, Ont.

Lesley E. Paulette — Smith’s Landing First Nation, Fitzgerald, Alta.

Heather Rankin — Mabou, Cape Breton, N.S.

Ryan Reynolds — Vancouver and New York

Christiane Rousseau — Mont-Saint-Grégoire, Que.

Tricia Catherine Smith — Vancouver (This is a promotion within the order.)

George A. Trusler — Toronto

Members

Ruth Elsie Abernethy — Wellesley, Ont.

Donald Alder — Vancouver

Vincent Asselin — Montreal

Orland Arthur Backstrom — Winnipeg

Louise A. MacCallum and Michael A. Barnstijn — Guelph, Ont.

Barry Kenneth Blanchard — Canmore, Alta.

John Anthony Boeckh — Westmount, Que.

Nicole Bourque-Bouchier — Fort McMurray, Alta.

Maureen Constance Boyd — Ottawa

Sandy Howard Buchman — Toronto

James Kevin Cameron — Lethbridge, Alta.

David A. Chitayat — Toronto

Stacy Churchill — Toronto

Colin Roswell Clarke — Oakville, Ont.

Fabienne Colas — Carignan, Que.

Felix J. E. Comeau — Mississauga, Ont.

Carol Ann Cowan-Levine — Toronto, Ontario

Donald A. Dippo — Comox, B.C.

Mariette Doduck — Vancouver

Laurent Duvernay-Tardif — Montreal

Morna Edmundson — Vancouver

Roy Douglas Elliott — Elliot Lake, Ont.

Pyarali Gulamani Nanji — Toronto

Pinchas Gutter — Toronto

Daniel A. Haas — Toronto

Aura Kagan — Thornhill, Ont.

Jean-Pierre Kingsley — Ottawa

Isolde Lagacé — Montreal

André Bernard Lalonde — Ottawa

Jeanne Brigitte Lehman — Edmonton

Karen Levine — Toronto

John Donald Longhurst — Winnipeg

Irving Ludmer — Montreal

Lorin Jean MacDonald — Toronto

Kevin Ray Martin — Edmonton

Louis Ménard — Montreal

Kenneth Leslie Mould — Winnipeg

Wendy Muckle — Ottawa

Steve Murphy — Halifax

Vijayakumar Murty — Toronto

Scott Oake — Winnipeg

Barbara Jean Perry — Oshawa, Ont.

Diane Marie Pitre — Campbellton, N.B.

Michael J. Prince — Victoria

Julia Berger Reitman — Montreal

Bernard Paul Richard — Cap-Pelé, N.B.

Richard Rose — Toronto

Greg Ryan — Toronto

Chloé Sainte-Marie — Montreal

Guy Saint-Jacques — Saint-Lambert, Que.

Walter Schneider — Toronto

Joseph A. Schwarcz — Montreal

Charles Clayton Scott — Banff, Alta.

Sam D. Shemie — Montreal

Diane Patricia Helen Sims — Stratford, Ont.

Valerie Sue Tarasuk — Toronto

Tirajeh Tehranchian — Toronto

Gabriel David Tuccaro — Fort Chipewyan, Alta.

Jean Turmel — Montréal, Que.

Ajay K. Virmani — Oakville, Ont.

Allan Douglas George Wade — Duncan, B.C.

Mark Zuehlke — Victoria

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 18, 2024

The Canadian Press

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