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

By The Canadian Press on December 18, 2024.

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 – Montrea

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