Memorable Manitobans: Manitoba Recipients of the Governor General’s Caring Canadian Award / Sovereign’s Medal for Volunteers

Established in 1995 by Governor General Romeo Leblanc, this award is given to people and groups whose voluntary contribution provide extraordinary help or care to their community. Recipients must have served several years and, normally, not received a national or provincial honour. In 2015, it was renamed the Sovereign’s Medal for Volunteers.

Recipient	Location	Year
Paulette Lenore Aamot	The Pas
Basil Agnew	Morden
Ethan Allard	Winnipeg
Doreen Ander	The Pas
Wendy Anderson	Tilston
Eleanor Anderson	Dauphin
John Anderson	Dauphin
Vernon Anderson	Winnipeg
Shonda Ashcroft	Birtle
Anita Barlow	Winnipeg
Lilianne Barnabé	Winnipeg
M. Myrtle Barnett	Selkirk
Sandra Margaret Bartlett	The Pas
Harold Denis Bastable	Winnipeg
Theresa Bastien	The Pas
Rose Bateman	Killarney
Bryanne Bates-Ewanyshyn	Gilbert Plains
Christine Beaumont	Sainte-Anne
Janice Becking	Snow Lake
Sonja Mandziuk Bejzyk (1932-2022)	Winnipeg	2012
Michael Patrick Belhumeur	Winnipeg
Stella Blackbird	Elphinstone
James Blake	The Pas
John Bockstael	Winnipeg
William H. M. “Bill” Brace (1924-2007)	Clandeboye	1999
Glenda Brading	Reston
Katelyn Brown	Minnedosa
Lucille Sharon Bruce	Winnipeg
Brenda Cameron	Virden
Anita J. Campbell	Winnipeg
Claudia Ruth Campbell	Teulon
David Grant Campbell	Teulon
Dianne Ruth Campbell	The Pas
Sharon Campbell	The Pas
Elena Catalano	The Pas
Lois Charron	Snow Lake
David Chartrand	Winnipeg
Norman William Cheyne	Melita
Philip Chiappetta	Winnipeg
Robert Chochinov	Anola
Valerie Christie	Winnipeg
Mackenzie Hunter William Clark	Brandon
Geraldine Cloutier	The Pas
Linda Maxine Conley	The Pas
Jennifer Cook	The Pas
Jim William Corman	Smow Lake
Hazel Roseline Corman	Snow Lake
Robin Peter Cox	Carman
Raymond Francis Currie	Winnipeg
Kathleen Dawson	Winnipeg
Alice Dent	Dauphin
Edward William “Bill” Docking	Teulon
Isabella Dryden	Winnipeg
Clifford R. Ducharme	Winnipeg
Charlene Dziedzic	Teulon
Erle T. Einarsson	Winnipeg
Skylar Ferguson	Manitoba
Nancy Fleury	Teulon
Kevin Freedman	Winnipeg
Kiana Friesen	Kleefeld
Shirley L. Gibb (1929-2001)	Winnipeg
Madison Gigolyk	Kleefeld
Adrienne Gill	Winnipeg
Shayla Gillis	Baldur
Lina Sophia Gordon	Franklin
Murray E. Green	Napinka
Lorne Gregorash	Winnipeg
Christopher Hall	Winnipeg
Tom Hamson	Winnipeg
Murray Harvey	The Pas
Gerald Charles Hawranik	Winnipeg
Pamela Gail Hawranik	Winnipeg
Dona Henderson	Whitemouth
Carlee Henderson	Manitou
Madeline Hiebert	Winnipeg
Jorden Hill	Winnipeg
Douglas Hinchliffe	Swan River
Carol Hiscock	Winnipeg
Adrian Honish	Winnipeg
Craig Houston	Winnipeg
Janice Howe	Dugald
Henry A. Idonije	Brandon
Choice Omovbe Idonije	Winnipeg
Alexa Ilag	Winnipeg
Hilde Ilmer	Winnipeg
Ken Ivey	Virden
Irene Janzen	Winnipeg
Hayley Jenkins	Thompson
Joseph Raymond Johnson	Winnipeg
Dolly Johnson	Portage La Prairie
Shaye Kemball	Winnipeg
Eugène J. A. Kirouac	La Broquerie
Hank Klassen	Steinbach
Menno Klassen	Winnipeg
Edgar Klassen	Winnipeg
Hannah Koversky	Brandon
John Kroeker	Steinbach
Francis Kusner	Winnipeg
Terumi Kuwada	Winnipeg
Yvonne Kyle	Winnipeg
Krista Laberge	Winnipeg
Suzanne Lachance-Maas	Winnipeg
Alice Langill	St-Anne-des-Chênes
Gabriel Langlois	Winnipeg
Jeremy Larway	Oak Lake
Daniel Leclair	Winnipeg
Nelliene E. Leifer	Russell
Jeremy Liscum	Winnipeg
Devon Liscum	Winnipeg
Helen Wilms Litz (1932-2021)	Winnipeg	1999
Michel Loiselle	Winnipeg
Delmar Floyd Loucks	Melita
Katerina MacGregor	Winnipeg
Ian MacLean	Winnipeg
Roma Maconachie	Winnipeg
Brooklyn Maguathi	Brandon
Don Maksymchuk	The Pas
Donald Mann	Winnipeg
Devanand Michael Manny	Winnipeg
Barry P. Marchand	Winnipeg
Jean Marshall	Woodlands
Linnea Martens	Winnipeg
Patricia McBeth	Winnipeg
Dorothy McClintock Faris	Winnipeg
Julia Catherine McDonald (1902-2005)	Selkirk	1996
Linda McFarland	The Pas
Ellen McFarlane	Flin Flon
Valerie McIntyre	Winnipeg
Bonnie Lynne Meadows	The Pas
Beruk Meshesha	Winnipeg
Jeannette Metcalfe	Winnipeg
Alexandra Michaels	Winnipeg
Sonia Michalyshen	Oakbank
Janet M. Miller	Winnipeg
Kathy Miller	Winnipeg
Peter Mosondz	The Pas
Mel Mummery	Minnedosa
Amy Neufeld	Darlingford
Brooklyn Nichol	Darlingford
McKenna Nicholls	Morden
Annette Niven	The Pas
Ron Nobess	Winnipeg
Deborah “Debbie” Norman	Winnipeg
Joeseph Kyle Olaski	Winnipeg
Carla Paddock	Brandon
Emile Paul	Winnipeg
William Pearcey	Portage la Prairie
Braiden Pergis	Winniepg
Brittany Perkins	Winnipeg
Leonard Donnelly Peto (1918-2001)	Winnipeg	1996
Alana Plett	Landmark
Michelle Pottinger	Neepawa
Shania Pruden	Winnipeg
Louise Pryslak	Winnipeg
Bob Putko	Flin Flon
David Ramesar	Winnipeg
Cassie Ranville	Rorketon
Phyllis Reader	Winnipeg
Strinivasan Reddy	Winnipeg
John Francis Reilly	Winnipeg
Erica Ritter	Winnipeg
Brett Robinson	Brandon
Elizabeth Rochon	Winnipeg
Fred J. Ross	Stonewall
Lesley Sacouman	Winnipeg
Walter Saltzberg	Winnipeg
Yvonne Savard	LaBroquerie
John Shaw	Brandon
Greg Shedden	Stonewall
Annie Shwaluk	Shoal Lake
Jasmyn Singh	Winnipeg
Simryn Singh	Winnipeg
Sandra Skibo	Brandon
Journey Skjaerlund	Landmark
Avery Skog	Morris
Denny Smith	Winnipeg
Deb Smith	Pinawa
Declan Smith	Neepawa
Debra Smith	The Pas
Bernice Smith	The Pas
Rimsha Sohail	Winnipeg
Philip Stairs	Beausejour
Dale F. Stewart	Winnipeg
Angelika Stoesz	Altona
John Jacob Thiessen	Winnipeg
Norman George Thomson (1911-2000)	Winnipeg
Candace A. Thorne	Oak Bluff
Sharon Faye Thorne	The Pas
Irene Tillett	Selkirk
Jaring Timmerman	Winnipeg
Susan Tozer	Winnipeg
Kirsten Trimble	Oakville
Gerry Valois	Winnipeg
Verna Van Roon (1920-2011)	Winnipeg	1998
Linda Wall	Winnipeg
Erin Ward	Winnipeg
Amarjeet Singh Warraich	Winnipeg
Eleanor Fison Warren	Birtle
John David Wawryk	Winnipeg
Harold Westdal	Winnipeg
Wyatt Whalen	Winnipeg
Mollie Wheeler	Moren
William Whiteway	Arnes
Cole Wielgosz	Winnipeg
Connor Wielgosz	Winnipeg
Robert Raymond Williams	Winnipeg
William Worden	Winnipeg
Linda Worone	Beausejour
Ella E. Younger	Rivers
William Allan Douglas Yuill	Grandview

Sources:

“Retired Mountie’s tireless volunteering merits Governor General’s caring award,” Winnipeg Free Press, 23 May 1998.

“Volunteer honoured,” Winnipeg Free Press, 31 July 1998.

“Couple get ‘Caring Canadian’ award for establishing first rural food bank,” Winnipeg Free Press, 11 December 1999.

“Clarkson hands out awards,” Winnipeg Free Press, 2 August 2000.

Governor General's Caring Canadian Awards

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 29 October 2022

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