Manitoba Recipients of the 125th Anniversary of Canadian Confederation Medal

The 125th Anniversary of Canadian Confederation Medal was presented in 1992 to commemorate the 125th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, in 1867. The medal was awarded to those who have made outstanding and exemplary contributions to their communities or to Canada as a whole.

The following is an incomplete list of medal recipients. If you know of other 125th Anniversary of Canadian Confederal Medal recipients from Manitoba, please contact the MHS webmaster at webmaster@mhs.mb.ca.

Surname begins with the letter: A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

Recipient	City
Nellie Allen	East St. Paul
Calvin James “Jim” Alward (1923-2017)	Winnipeg
Lena Anderson	?
James Glenn Armstrong	Winnipeg
Alfred Edwin “Eddy” Arnold (1898-2005)	Shoal Lake
B
Eldon Bach	Winnipeg
John C. “Chic” Balderstone (1908-2001)	West St. Paul
Martha Bargenda	Winnipeg
Ralph Esdale Baxter (1932-2020)	Winnipeg
Kasimir “Kas” Bileski (1908-2005)	Winnipeg
Uberta Margaret Ellen Ross Blackburn (?-1996)	Winnipeg
Ron Blatz	Winnipeg
Edwin Arthur “Art” Braid (1934-2020)	Winnipeg
Jerilynne Breckman	Winnipeg
Norma Ingimundson Busby (1930-2008)	Winnipeg
C
Kenneth Donald Carels (1938-2005)	Melita
Albert “Al” Cerilli	Winnipeg
Albert Thomas “Ab” Chapman (1918-2013)	Rivers
Gulzar Singh Cheema	Winnipeg
Vera Shewchuk Chernecki (c1941-2022)	Winnipeg
Arthur Edward Christensen (1916-2018)	West St. Paul
Inderjit Singh Claire (1931-2004)	Winnipeg
George Arthur Clavelle (1932-2015)	Winnipeg
Roy Coldwell	Winnipeg
Kenneth “Ken” Collier	Winnipeg
D
James Morgan Cuthbert “Jim” Daly (1927-2019)	Winnipeg
Wilfred D. “Wilf” Daniels (1919-1999)	Winnipeg
Anielia “Nellie” Danwich (1916-2015)	Traverse Bay
Gustavo Uriel “Gus” da Roza (1933-2022)	Winnipeg
Gwen Davidner (?-1995)	Winnipeg
Richard L. M. Dawson	Winnipeg
Donald George Deacon (1925-2011)	Winnipeg
Merv Deckert	Winnipeg
Mary Anne Dorothea Taylor Dempster (1921-2010)	Winnipeg
Shelagh Dorothea Sutherland Douglas (?-2004)	Winnipeg
Ian Ventress Dubienski (1921-1998)	Winnipeg
Peter Ducheck (1918-2007)	St. Andrews
Jean Dupont (1932-2008)	St. Georges
Mary Duval	Winnipeg
Stephen Dvorak	?
E
Margaret Ida Eyers (1921-2013)	Winnipeg
F
Violet Vickers “Vi” Farrow (c1916-2009)	Winnipeg
Wasyly Fedak (1909-2005)	Winnipeg
Sigmundur Finnbogason	Winnipeg
Irene H. Friesen	?
Joan Friesen	?
Marion Tye Fulton (1921-2013)	Birtle
G
William “BIll” Gibson	Winnipeg
George Gilhuly	Selkirk
Patricia Goodman	St. Clements
Betty Gray	Winnipeg
H
Arthur Edmund “Bert” Hall (1920-2014)	Manitou
Ernie Halligan	Winnipeg
Geraldine “Gerrie” Hammond (?-1992)	Winnipeg
John Harvard (1938-2016)	Winnipeg
Ronald Hay	Winnipeg
Leta Hilton	?
Phyllis Margaret Holtby (1906-1993)	Winnipeg
Ann Hunt	?
I
Ingthor Isfeld (1935-2019)	Winnipeg
Grace Cruikshank Ivey (1921-2010)	Winnipeg
J
Marjorie Anne Chisholm Johnston (1919-2008)	Winnipeg
Helgi Jones (1916-2000)	Gimli
Anne Jorowski	Winnipeg
K
Carolyn Louise Baldner Keith (c1942-2010)	Winnipeg
Tom Kendall	Winnipeg
John Klassen (1928-2007)	Winnipeg
Timothy “Tim” Klumper	Winnipeg
Vladimirus John Walter Kowalchuk (1909-2004)	Winnipeg
Walter Kucharczyk (1921-2003)	Winnipeg
L
Berthe LaFleche	?
Betty Anne La Haie	Winnipeg
Ronald “Ron” Lamb	Winnipeg
George Lawrence (1922-2011)	Winnipeg
Louise “Dolly” Lezak	Winnipeg
Peter M. Liba (1940-2007)	Winnipeg
Myrtle Olive Rosamond Lorraine Lytle (1924-2019)	Winnipeg
M
William Steward Arnold Martin (1924-1996)	Winnipeg
John “Jack” Matheson (1924-2011)	Winnipeg
Hugh Mawhinney	Winnipeg
Derek William Mazur (1947-2021)	Winnipeg
George McCloy (1922-2009)	Winnipeg
Shirley Norma Thordarson McCreedy (1922-2009)	Winnipeg
Helen McCullough	?
David John “Dave” McDowell (1938-2019)	Winnipeg
Stanley McKay Jr.	Winnipeg
Jeannette Metcalfe	?
Joyce Milgaard	?
Stanley “Stan” Millar (1921-2001)	Winnipeg
Antonio Francisco “Tony” Morien (1919-2008)	Winnipeg
N
Rose Nelson	Winnipeg
Neva Yvonne Nicholls (1928-2012)	Winnipeg
O
Charlotte Louise Kingdon Oleson (1932-2017)	Glenboro
Brian Norman Orvis (1931-2010)	Winnipeg
Ronald Nicholas “Ron” Oswald (c1951-2007)	Winnipeg
P
John Draper Perrin III	Winnipeg
Edna Lenora Perry (1923-2020)	Winnipeg
Madeline Petrovich	Winnipeg
David J. Place	Selkirk
Victor Pruden	?
John Edward Pullen (1926-2005)	Winnipeg
Q
R
Mary Radych (1901-1994)	Winnipeg
Irene Catherine Rebiffe Renaud (1933-2015)	Winnipeg
Anthony Reid	Winnipeg
James Armstrong Richardson (1922-2004)	Winnipeg
William Romaniuk	Winnipeg
Mina Rosner (1913-1997)	Winnipeg
S
Thomas Albert “Bert” Sandercock (1925-2019)	Selkirk
Clarence Henry Saunders (1907-2007)	Winnipeg
Doris Boyce Saunders (1901-2003)	Winnipeg
Norma Scarth	Winnipeg
George B. Schreyer (1920-2017)	St. Andrews
Christian “Chris” Schubert (1905-2001)	Winnipeg
Benjamin “Ben” Schwartz (1917-2011)	Winnipeg
Yaroslaw “Cecil” Semchyshyn (1930-2002)	Winnipeg
Mitchell William Sharp (1911-2004)	Ottawa
Beatrice Barrie Hawken Sharpe (?-1997)	Winnipeg
Marjorie Simpson	Winnipeg
Kewal Singh (1939-2021)	Winnipeg
William “Bill” Solomon (1930-2021)	Winnipeg
Calvin Sookermany	Winnipeg
Peter Sosiak	Winnipeg
Gisele Jeannette Souque (1953-2018)	Winnipeg
Gordon Sparkes	Winnipeg
Lorna Stevens	Winnipeg
Elizabeth Todd “Betty” Stewart (1930-2000)	Winnipeg
Audrey Strom	Winnipeg
Wilf Strom	Winnipeg
Glen Suggett	Portage la Prairie
George Swinton (1917-2002)	Winnipeg
T
Carrie Thiessen	Winnipeg
Jon Toogood	Winnipeg
U
Marie Ulicki	Winnipeg
V
George Waters	Winnipeg
Jack Watts	?
June Alwyn Westbury (1921-2004)	Winnipeg
Walter Ernest Winters (1935-2010)	Winnipeg
Jim Wright	?
Carl Lewis Wullum (1937-2002)	Winnipeg
W
William Walker	Winnipeg
Lawrence Layard Whytehead (1914-2005)	Winnipeg
Walter Winters	Winnipeg
X
Iva J. Hay Yeo	Winnipeg
Joseph Yu Sun Yuen (1942-2014)	Winnipeg
Z
Rodney Anthony Allan “Rod” Zimmer (1942-2016)	Winnipeg

See also:

Manitoba Recipients of the King George V Jubilee Medal

Manitoba Recipients of the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal

Manitoba Recipients of the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal

Manitoba Recipients of the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal

Manitoba Recipients of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal

Manitoba Recipients of the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal

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

Manitoba Recipients of the Meritorious Service Medal (Civil Division)

Manitoba Inductees to the Order of the British Empire

Manitoba Inductees to the Order of St. Gregory the Great

Manitoba Inductees to the Order of the Falcon

Manitoba Recipients of Knighthoods

Manitoba Recipients of the Canadian Centennial Medal

Manitoba Recipients of the 125th Anniversary of Canadian Confederation Medal

Manitoba Members of the Order of Canada

Manitoba Members of the Order of Military Merit

Members of the Order of Manitoba

Members of the Order of the Metis Nation

Members of the Manitoba Order of the Buffalo Hunt

Recipients of the Manitoba Centennial Medal

Members of the Manitoba Order of the Crocus

Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Historical Preservation and Promotion

Winnipeg Citizens Hall of Fame

Recipients of Manitoba 150 Honours

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Order of Manitoba Monument (Assiniboine Park, Winnipeg)

Sources:

“Two LGD of Alexander residents receive commemorative medals,” Lac du Bonnet Leader, 3 November 1992, page 10.

“Nellie Allan awarded for volunteer efforts,” Selkirk Journal, 17 November 1992, page 3.

“Ducheck honored,” Selkirk Journal, 24 November 1992, page 3.

“Gilhuly recognized for community efforts,” Selkirk Journal, 1 December 1992, page 3.

“Just keeping busy,” Selkirk Journal, 15 December 1992, page 3.

“More laurels for Kendall,” Winnipeg Free Press, 28 May 1993, page C2.

A Prairie Girl’s Life: The Story of the Reverend Edna Lenora Perry by Edna Lenora Perry, 2014. [Winnipeg Public Library]

Obituary [Myrtle Olive Rosamond Lorraine Lytle], Winnipeg Free Press, 23 November 2019.

Obituary [William Solomon], Winnipeg Free Press, 3 November 2021.

We thank Colleen Armstrong, Bill Blaikie, Richard Dawson, Nathan Kramer, and Frances Waters for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 31 July 2023

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