Members of the Order of Manitoba

The Order of Manitoba, established by special legislation in 1999, is the highest honour of the Province of Manitoba. It recognizes people “who have demonstrated excellence and achievement in any field of endeavour benefitting in an outstanding manner the social, cultural or economic well-being of Manitoba and its residents.”

Twelve people are granted the award each year by the Lieutenant-Governor. Selections are made by an Advisory Council comprised of the president of one of Manitoba’s three universities and four people appointed by the provincial cabinet for a term of three years. Nominations are accepted.

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

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Recipient	Year	Location
Rachel Alao	2015	Winnipeg
Paul Albrechtsen (1930-2019)	2016	Winnipeg
Elaine Ali	2003	Winnipeg
Chad Allan	2015	Winnipeg
David Angus	2017	Winnipeg
Gail Asper	2007	Winnipeg
Israel H. “Izzy” Asper (1932-2003)	2000	Winnipeg
Lloyd Axworthy	2001	Winnipeg
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Randy Bachman	2005	Winnipeg
Norma E. Bailey	2010	Winnipeg
David Barnard	2018	Winnipeg
Leonard Arthur “Len” Bateman (1919-2019)	2003	Winnipeg
Clarence Lyle Barber (1917-2004)	2003	Winnipeg
Neil Ofeigur Bardal (c1940-2010)	2006	Winnipeg
Marileen Bartlet	2016	?
Robert Earl Beamish (1916-2001)	2003	Winnipeg
Karen Beaudin	2015	Winnipeg
Michael P. B. Belhumeur	2018	Winnipeg
Marlene Bertrand	2017	Winnipeg
Heather Bishop	2001	Winnipeg
Marjorie Blankstein	2010	Winnipeg
Jacqueline Blay	2018	Winnipeg
John Bock	2008	Winnipeg
Stephen Borys	2020	Winnipeg
Jennifer Lori Botterill	2006	Winnipeg
Mitch Bourbonniere	2020	Winnipeg
William H. M. Brace (1924-2007)	2002	Clandeboye
Lorraine Brandson	2014	Churchill
Bob Brennan	2014	Winnipeg
Doreen Brownstone	2017	Winnipeg
Barbara Bruce	2018	?
Vivian Bruce	2019	Winnipeg
James William “Jim” Burns (1929-2019)	2003	Winnipeg
Selwyn “Sel” Burrows	2017	Winnipeg
C
Leonard Joseph “Len” Cariou	2004	Winnipeg
Jim Carr	2011	Winnipeg
Albert U. Cerilli	2006	Winnipeg
Thérèse Champagne (?-2007)	2004	Northern Manitoba
David Chartrand	2013	Winnipeg
Saul Mark Cherniack (1917-2018)	2002	Winnipeg
Mark Chipman	2012	Winnipeg
Harvey Max Chochinov	2004	Winnipeg
Patrick Choy	2011	Winnipeg
Pauline Clarke	2012	Winnipeg
Tom Cochrane	2015	?
Dian Cohen	2015	?
Eileen Charlotte Landerkin Collins (1923-2018)	2006	Pilot Mound
Hyacinth Colomb	2001	Pukatawagan
Gladys Evelyn Taylor Cook (1929-2009)	2005	?
James Arthur Coulter (1916-2005)	2002	Winnipeg
Mary Courchene	2020	?
James Elliott Coyne (1910-2012)	2012	Winnipeg
Burton Cummings	200?	Winnipeg
Charles E. Curtis	2003	Winnipeg
D
Krishnamurti Dakshinamurti	2020	Winnipeg
James Morgan Cuthbert “Jim” Daly (1927-2019)	2000	Winnipeg
Adrian Darveau (1916-2003)	2002	Winnipeg
Art DeFehr	2011	Winnipeg
Rayleen De Luca	2011	Winnipeg
Catherine Myrtle DeMeulles	2008	Churchill
Maria De Nardi	2016	Winnipeg
Tom Denton	2014	Winnipeg
Ajit Kaur Deol	2002	Beausejour
Wilma L. Derksen	2015	Winnipeg
Marcel Desautels	2019	Winnipeg
Dhali Dhaliwal	2016	Winnipeg
Naranjan S. Dhalla	2002	Winnipeg
Gary Albert Doer	2010	Winnipeg
Francis Patrick “Pat” Doyle (1922-2015)	2013	Ste. Anne
Joseph N. H. “Joe” Du (1933-2017)	2003	Winnipeg
Don Duguid	2014	Winnipeg
W. Yvon Dumont	2001	Winnipeg
Darlene Dziewit	2012	Winnipeg
E
Clifford Henry Coad Edwards (1924-2008)	2002	Winnipeg
James Ehnes	2019	Florida
Bill Elliott	2020	Winnipeg
Abdo “Albert” El Tassi	2009	Winnipeg
Philipp R. Ens	2017	Winkler
Ivan Eyre	2007	Winnipeg
F
Ronald A. “Sam” Fabro (1920-2018)	2014	Winnipeg
Gary Albert Filmon	2001	Winnipeg
Janice Clare Filmon	2007	Winnipeg
Leonard George “Len” Flett (1942-2020)	2012	Winnipeg
Phil Fontaine	2003	Sagkeeng First Nation
Reginald Elmer “Reg” Forbes (1924-2015)	2000	Brandon
Norman Waldron “Wally” Fox-Decent (1937-2019)	2003	Winnipeg
Arnold Frieman (1928-2019)	2006	Winnipeg
Albert D. Friesen	2005	Winnipeg
David Glenn Friesen	?	Winnipeg
Henry C. Friesen	2004	Winnipeg
Richard Frost	2020	Winnipeg
Olga Fuga	2013	Winnipeg
G
Étienne-Joseph Gaboury	2012	Winnipeg
Raymonde Gagné	2014	Winnipeg
David Gislason	2008	Arborg
Helen Preston Glass (1917-2015)	2008	Winnipeg
Yhetta Miriam Gold	2009	Winnipeg
Allan Gotlieb	2014	?
Irene Elizabeth Church Grant (1914-2009)	2005	Winnipeg
David Alexander Ian Grewar (1921-2015)	2010	Winnipeg
Virginia Guiang	2004	Winnipeg
Chander K. Gupta	2005	Winnipeg
H
Monte R. Halparin [Monty Hall] (1921-2017)	2003	Beverly Hills, California
Elijah Harper (1949-2013)	2010	Ottawa, Ontario
Evelyn Anne Hart	2007	Winnipeg
John Harvard (1938-2016)	2004	Winnipeg
Kerry Lloyd Hawkins (1940-2017)	2010	Winnipeg
Edward Head (1931-2009)	2005	The Pas
George Nicholos Heshka (1933-2021)	2013	Winnipeg
Benjamin Hewak (1935-2017)	2004	Winnipeg
Vern Hildahl (1917-2005)	2005	Winnipeg
Elmer Hildebrand	2007	Altona
Kathy Hildebrand	2019	Winkler
Terrance John “Terry” Hind 1920-2007)	2005	Winnipeg
Betty Hopkins	2010	?
Clara Anne Hughes	2006	Winnipeg
I
Henry Idonije	2011	Brandon
Israel Idonije	2014	?
Bob Irving	2014	Winnipeg
Sara J. Israels	2018	Winnipeg
J
John Albert Jack	2007	Winnipeg
June Marion James	2004	Winnipeg
Edwin Jebb	2000	Opaskwayak Cree Nation
Dan Johnson	2015
Martin James Johnson	2005	Winnipeg
Lynn B. Johnston	2007	Lynn Lake
Jennifer Jones	2014	Winnipeg
Tina Jones	2020	Winnipeg
K
Sol Kanee (1909-2007)	2007	Winnipeg
Samuel M. “Sam” Katz	2004	Winnipeg
Kevin Patrick Kavanagh (1932-2020)	2009	Winnipeg
Tina Keeper	2002	?
Mary Kelekis (c1925-2019)	2000	Winnipeg
Betsy Kennedy	2016	?
Sheldon Kennedy	2015	?
Verna J. Kirkness	2007	Fisher River Cree Nation
Cynthia N. “Cindy” Klassen	2006	Winnipeg
Kathryn Knowles	2010	?
Gary Kobinger	2016	Winnipeg
Crystal Marie Kolt	2012	Flin Flon
Wanda Koop	2016	Winnipeg
Eugene Michael Kostyra (1947-2020)	2011	Winnipeg
Robert T. Kristjanson	2018	Gimli
Sylvia Kuzyk	2009	Winnipeg
L
Sue Lambert	2000	The Pas
Raymond Lavallee	2011	The Pas
Reggie Leach	2016	?
Hermann Lee	2014	Winnipeg
Philip S. Lee	2009	Winnipeg
Marion Lewis	2020	Winnipeg
Susan Lewis	2011	Winnipeg
Peter M. Liba (1940-2007)	1999	Winnipeg
Anne Lindsey	2017	Winnipeg
Arvid Loewen	2019	?
C. Wilbert “Bert” Loewen	2010	?
William “Bill” Loewen	2018	Winnipeg
Wesley Crawford Lorimer (1913-2010)	2003	Winnipeg
Tse Li Luk	2013	Winnipeg
Sterling Rufus Lyon (1927-2010)	2002	Winnipeg
M
Donald R. J. Mackey	2015	?
Guy Maddin	2009	Winnipeg
Romulo F. Magsino, Sr.	2008	Winnipeg
Roland Mahe	2009	Winnipeg
Kathy Mallett	2011	Winnipeg
Bernice Marmel	2018	Winnipeg
Richard Allan “Dick” Martin (1944-2001)	2001	Winnipeg
Arthur Valentine Mauro	2004	Winnipeg
Pearl Kathryne McGonigal	2000	Winnipeg
Frederick George McGuinness (1921-2011)	2003	Brandon
William John McKeag (1928-2007)	2003	Winnipeg
Loreena McKennitt	2003	Morden
Robert Ronald McLean	2008	?
Joseph Isidore Stanley “Joe” Meconse (1941-2019)	2009	Winnipeg
Lisa Meeches	2017	Winnipeg
S. June Menzies	2007	Winnipeg
Ovide William Mercredi	2005	Grand Rapids
Art Miki	2012	Winnipeg
Randy Moffat	2012	Winnipeg
Leo Mol (1915-2009)	2000	Winnipeg
Alfred Maurice Monnin (1920-2013)	2000	Winnipeg
Margaret Chown McDonald Morse (?-2021)	2020	Winnipeg
Stuart Murray	2020	Winnipeg
N
Arnold Naimark	2003	Winnipeg
Robb Nash	2018	?
Barbara Nepinak	2019	?
Clarence Nepinak	2019	?
William “Bill” Norrie (1929-2012)	2000	Winnipeg
David Northcott	2000	Winnipeg
O
Scott Oake	2020	Winnipeg
Carmel Olson	2010	Brandon
Ken Opaleke	2018	Winnipeg
Sylvia Ostry	2009	Winnipeg
P
Rey D. Pagtakhan	2017	Winnipeg
Howard Russell Pawley (1934-2015)	2000	Winnipeg
Phillip James “Jim” Peebles	2017	Princeton, New Jersey
Fred Penner	2011	Winnipeg
Roland Penner (1924-2018)	2014	Winnipeg
Robert “Bob” Picken (1932-2019)	2017	Winnipeg
Grant N. Pierce	2018	Winnipeg
Kenneth A. Ploen	2007	Winnipeg
Francis Allan “Frank” Plummer (1952-2020)	2009	Winnipeg
Mitchell “Mitch” Podolak (1947-2019)	2015	Winnipeg
Raymond Poirier	2011	Winnipeg
Brian Postl	2012	Winnipeg
Donald Russell Pratt (1911-2007)	2006	?
Neilla Premachuk (1911-2007)	2009	The Pas
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R
Sophia O. Rabliauskas	2008	Poplar River First Nation
Ernest Rady	2020	Winnipeg
Pamela Blanche Rebello	2000	Winnipeg
Strini Reddy	2000	?
Diane Redsky	2013	Winnipeg
Mary Margaret Richard (1940-2010)	2000	Winnipeg
George Taylor Richardson (1924-2014)	2000	Winnipeg
Hartley T. Richardson	2008	Winnipeg
Kathleen Margaret Richardson (1928-2019)	2005	Winnipeg
Sanford Riley	2013	Winnipeg
Donald Alexander “Don” Robertson (1935-2019)	2004	Norway House
Charles Dufferin “Duff” Roblin (1917-2010)	2000	Winnipeg
Paul Robson	2017	Winnipeg
Cheryl Rockman-Greenberg	2018	Winnipeg
Allan Ronald	2013	Winnipeg
S
Ray St. Germain	2013	?
Leonore Marion Saunders (1925-2019)	2002	Winnipeg
Peter Sawatzky	2008	?
Steven Schipper	2019	?
Edward Richard “Ed” Schreyer	2008	?
Trudy Schroeder	2019	Winnipeg
Corrine J. Scott	2009	Winnipeg
Richard J. Scott	2013	Winnipeg
Harvey Secter	2019	Winnipeg
Evelyn Shapiro (1926-2010)	2009	Winnipeg
Carol Ann Warner Shields (1935-2003)	2001	Winnipeg
Robert Silver	2012	Winnipeg
Al Simmons	2012	Winnipeg
Khhem Kamarie “Monica” Singh	2015	?
Glenora Slimmon	2005	Brandon
Bernadette Smith	2016	?
Joy Smith	2019	Winnipeg
Leonard D. Smith	2006	Churchill
Muriel Smith	2008	Winnipeg
Murray Rhodes Smith (1930-2002)	2002	Winnipeg
Robert “Bob” Smith	2010	?
Roger Marshall Smith (?-2007)	2000	Pinawa
Leslie Spillett	2012	Winnipeg
Arnold Theodore Spohr (1923-2010)	2000	Winnipeg
Baldur Rosmund Stefansson (1917-2002)	2000	Winnipeg
Maurice Frederick Strong (1929-2015)	2005	Oak Lake
Beverly Suek	2017	Winnipeg
Emoke Szathmary	2009	Winnipeg
T
Paul G. Thomas	2007	Winnipeg
Susan Thompson	2016	Winnipeg
Deborah Thorlakson	2012	Winnipeg
Clarence I. Tillenius (1913-2012)	2003	Winnipeg
Jonathan Toews	2015	Chicago, Illinois
Miriam Toews	2011	Steinbach
Bramwell Branard Tovey	2000	Winnipeg
U
E. Jane Ursel	2002	Winnipeg
Keith Ursel	2010	?
V
Carole Vivier	2014	Winnipeg
W
Wanbdi Wakita	2016	?
Valentine “Val” Werier (1917-2014)	2004	Winnipeg
Michael West	2019	Winnipeg
Gwendolyn E. Wishart	2001	Gladstone
Eleanor Woitowicz	2013	Wabowden
Ed Wood	2007	St. Theresa Point First Nation
Josephine Wright	2009	Winnipeg
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Y
Doris Sarah Young	2014	?
Helen Granger Young	2013	?
Neil Young	2006	Winnipeg
Z

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 Inductees to the Order of the British Empire

Manitoba Inductees to the Order of St. Gregory the Great

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

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This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Paul Armstrong.

Page revised: 20 April 2021

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