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.

Surname begins: 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	Location	Year
Paulette Lenore Aamot	The Pas	?
Basil Agnew	Morden	1997
Ethan Allard	Winnipeg	2014
Doreen Ander	The Pas	?
Wendy Anderson	Tilston	2006
Eleanor Anderson	Dauphin	1998
John Anderson (?-?)	Dauphin	1998
Vernon Anderson	Winnipeg	2019
Shonda Ashcroft	Birtle	2018
B
Anita Barlow	Winnipeg	2016
Lilianne Barnabé	Winnipeg	2018
M. Myrtle Barnett	Selkirk	1999
Sandra Margaret Bartlett	The Pas	?
Harold Denis Bastable	Winnipeg	2001
Theresa Bastien	The Pas	?
Rose Bateman	Killarney	2016
Bryanne Bates-Ewanyshyn	Gilbert Plains	2016
Christine Beaumont	Sainte-Anne	2018
Janice Becking	Snow Lake	1996
Sonja Mandziuk Bejzyk (1932-2022)	Winnipeg	2012
Michael Patrick Belhumeur	Winnipeg	2017
Stella Blackbird	Elphinstone	2013
James Blake	The Pas	?
John Bockstael	Winnipeg	2015
William H. M. “Bill” Brace (1924-2007)	Clandeboye	1999
Glenda Brading	Reston	2006
Katelyn Brown	Minnedosa	2017
Lucille Sharon Bruce	Winnipeg	2017
C
Brenda Cameron	Virden	2016
Anita J. Campbell	Winnipeg	2017
Claudia Ruth Campbell	Teulon	2008
David Grant Campbell	Teulon	2004
Dianne Ruth Campbell	The Pas	?
Sharon Campbell	The Pas	?
Elena Catalano	The Pas	?
Lois Charron	Snow Lake	2018
David Chartrand	Winnipeg	2017
Norman William “Norm” Cheyne (c1937-2017)	Melita	2006
Philip Chiappetta	Winnipeg	2017
Robert Chochinov	Anola	2016
Valerie Christie	Winnipeg	2016
Mackenzie Hunter William Clark	Brandon	2015
Geraldine Cloutier	The Pas	?
Linda Maxine Conley	The Pas	?
Jennifer Cook	The Pas	?
Jim William Corman	Snow Lake	2017
Hazel Roseline Corman	Snow Lake	2017
Robin Peter Cox	Carman	2014
Raymond Francis Currie	Winnipeg	2013
D
Kathleen Dawson	Winnipeg	2018
Alice Marion Turner Dent (1918-2016)	Dauphin	1999
Edward William “Bill” Docking	Teulon	2007
Isabella Dryden	Winnipeg	2018
Clifford R. Ducharme	Winnipeg	1999
Charlene Dziedzic	Teulon	2017
E
Erle T. Einarsson	Winnipeg	2015
Peter Elwick	Ste. Anne	?
F
Skylar Ferguson	Manitoba	2018
Nancy Friederici Fleury (1946-2022)	Teulon	2013
Kevin Freedman	Winnipeg	2014
Kiana Friesen	Kleefeld	2015
G
Shirley L. Gibb (1929-2001)	Winnipeg	2001
Madison Gigolyk	Kleefeld	2015
Adrienne Gill	Winnipeg	2016
Shayla Gillis	Baldur	2014
Lina Sophia Gordon	Franklin	2014
Murray Edward Green (1922-2008)	Napinka	2006
Lorne Gregorash	Winnipeg	2018
H
Christopher Hall	Winnipeg	2019
Tom Hamson	Winnipeg	2016
Murray Harvey	The Pas	2017
Gerald Charles Hawranik	Winnipeg	1999
Pamela Gail Hawranik	Winnipeg	1999
Dona Henderson	Whitemouth	2016
Carlee Henderson	Manitou	2017
Madeline Hiebert	Winnipeg	2015
Jorden Hill	Winnipeg	2015
Douglas Hinchliffe	Swan River	2018
Carol Hiscock	Winnipeg	2012
Adrian Honish	Winnipeg	2018
Craig Houston	Winnipeg	2013
Janice Howe	Dugald	2016
Richard Glenn “Rick” Hubbs	The Pas	?
I
Henry A. Idonije	Brandon	2008
Choice Omovbe Idonije	Winnipeg	2012
Alexa Ilag	Winnipeg	2015
Hilde Ilmer	Winnipeg	2015
Ken Ivey	Virden	2016
J
Irene Janzen	Winnipeg	2017
Hayley Jenkins	Thompson	2017
Joseph Raymond Johnson	Winnipeg	2004
Dolly Johnson	Portage la Prairie	1998
K
Shaye Kemball	Winnipeg	2014
Eugène J. A. Kirouac	La Broquerie	2004
Hank Klassen	Steinbach	2014
Menno Klassen	Winnipeg	1999
Edgar Klassen	Winnipeg	2017
Hannah Koversky	Brandon	2016
John Kroeker	Steinbach	2020
Francis Kusner	Winnipeg	2015
Terumi Kuwada	Winnipeg	2012
Yvonne Kyle	Winnipeg	?
L
Krista Laberge	Winnipeg	2020
Suzanne Lachance-Maas	Winnipeg	2015
Alice Langill	St-Anne-des-Chênes	2007
Gabriel Langlois	Winnipeg	2019
Jeremy Larway	Oak Lake	2016
Raymond Alexander “Sonny” Lavallee	The Pas	?
Daniel Leclair	Winnipeg	2016
Nelliene E. Leifer	Russell	2001
Jeremy Liscum	Winnipeg	2018
Devon Liscum	Winnipeg	2018
Helen Wilms Litz (1932-2021)	Winnipeg	1999
Michel Loiselle	Winnipeg	2013
Delmar Floyd Loucks	Melita	2006
M
Katerina MacGregor	Winnipeg	2016
Ian MacLean	Winnipeg	2014
Roma Maconachie	Winnipeg	2017
Beverly Ann MacTavish	The Pas	?
Brooklyn Maguathi	Brandon	2016
Don Maksymchuk	The Pas	?
Audrey Anne Maksymchuk	The Pas	?
Donald Mann	Winnipeg	2016
Devanand Michael Manny	Winnipeg	2017
Barry P. Marchand	Winnipeg	2013
Jean Marshall	Woodlands	2003
Linnea Martens	Winnipeg	2018
Raymond Massinon	Haywood	?
Patricia McBeth	Winnipeg	2019
Dorothy Marion McClintock Faris (?-2016)	Winnipeg	1998
Julia Catherine McDonald (1902-2005)	Selkirk	1996
Linda McFarland	The Pas	?
Ellen McFarlane	Flin Flon	1999
Valerie McIntyre	Winnipeg	2017
Bonnie Lynne Meadows	The Pas	?
Beruk Meshesha	Winnipeg	2014
Jeannette Metcalfe (1932-2021)	Winnipeg	2004
Alexandra Michaels	Winnipeg	2016
Sonia Michalyshen	Oakbank	2013
Janet M. Miller	Winnipeg	2001
Kathy Miller	Winnipeg	?
Peter Mosondz	The Pas	?
Melville Russell Huntley “Mel” Mummery (1918-2004)	Minnedosa	1996
N
Amy Neufeld	Darlingford	2017
Brooklyn Nichol	Darlingford	2018
McKenna Nicholls	Morden	2014
Annette Niven	The Pas	?
Ron Nobess	Winnipeg	2017
Deborah “Debbie” Norman	Winnipeg	2016
O
Joeseph Kyle Olaski	Winnipeg	2019
P
Carla Paddock	Brandon	2018
Emile Paul	Winnipeg	2016
William Pearcey	Portage la Prairie	2017
Braiden Pergis	Winniepg	2016
Brittany Perkins	Winnipeg	2016
Leonard Donnelly Peto (1918-2001)	Winnipeg	1996
Alana Plett	Landmark	2016
Michelle Pottinger	Neepawa	2016
Shania Pruden	Winnipeg	2015
Louise Pryslak	Winnipeg	2017
Bob Putko	Flin Flon	2013
Q
R
David Ramesar	Winnipeg	2018
Cassie Ranville	Rorketon	2015
Phyllis Reader	Winnipeg	2013
Strinivasan Reddy	Winnipeg	2013
John Francis Reilly (1930-2011)	Winnipeg	1999
Erica Ritter	Winnipeg	2015
Brett Robinson	Brandon	2005
Elizabeth Rochon	Winnipeg	2015
Fred J. Ross	Stonewall	1998
S
Lesley Sacouman	Winnipeg	2013
Walter Saltzberg	Winnipeg	2015
Yvonne Savard	La Broquerie	2020
John Shaw	Brandon	2016
Greg Shedden	Stonewall	2016
Annie Shwaluk	Shoal Lake	2002
Jasmyn Singh	Winnipeg	2018
Simryn Singh	Winnipeg	2020
Sandra Skibo	Brandon	2017
Journey Skjaerlund	Landmark	2018
Avery Skog	Morris	2014
Denny Smith	Winnipeg	2015
Deb Smith	Pinawa	2017
Declan Smith	Neepawa	2018
Debra Smith	The Pas	?
Bernice Smith	The Pas	?
Rimsha Sohail	Winnipeg	2015
Philip Stairs	Beausejour	2015
Dale F. Stewart	Winnipeg	2006
Angelika Stoesz	Altona	2017
T
John Jacob Thiessen	Winnipeg	2001
George Henry Thomson (?-?)	Winnipeg	2000
Candace A. Thorne	Oak Bluff	2013
Sharon Faye Thorne	The Pas	2020
Irene Elizabeth Tillett (1914-2017)	Selkirk	1999
Jaring Timmerman	Winnipeg	2002
Susan Tozer	Winnipeg	2016
Kirsten Trimble	Oakville	2015
U
V
Gerry Valois	Winnipeg	2015
Verna Van Roon (1920-2011)	Winnipeg	1998
W
Linda Wall	Winnipeg	2018
Erin Ward	Winnipeg	2013
Amarjeet Singh Warraich	Winnipeg	2017
Eleanor Fison Warren (1902-2003)	Birtle	2002
John David Wawryk	Winnipeg	?
Harold Westdal	Winnipeg	2016
Wyatt Whalen	Winnipeg	2016
Mollie Wheeler	Moren	2014
William Whiteway	Arnes	2018
Cole Wielgosz	Winnipeg	2014
Connor Wielgosz	Winnipeg	2014
Robert Raymond Williams	Winnipeg	2013
William Worden	Winnipeg	2020
Linda Worone	Beausejour	2016
X
Y
Ella E. Younger	Rivers	2001
William Allan Douglas Yuill	Grandview	2018
Z

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.

Obituary [Murray Edward Green], Redpath Funeral Home.

Governor General's Caring Canadian Awards

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 28 May 2023

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