Saskatchewan Order of Merit

The Saskatchewan Order of Merit is an award given in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.

Purpose

Created in 1985, the award is the most prestigious official honour in the province. The Order recognizes the highest level of individual excellence and achievement in any field. It takes precedence over all other provincial honours and awards.

Eligibility

Any Canadian citizen who is a current or former resident of Saskatchewan is eligible for nomination. Posthumous nominations are accepted within one year of the date of death. Only ten people can receive the award annually.

The Provincial Emblems and Honours Act was altered in 2001 to allow for honorary membership in the Order to people who are not current or former residents of Saskatchewan. [1] In 2001 The Prince of Wales was invested while on a visit to Saskatchewan and in 2006 The Earl of Wessex was invested while on a visit to western Canada. [2] [3]

Recipients

There have been 134 appointments to the Order of Merit since its inception.

2006

* Gordon Barnhart (as Lieutenant Governor)

2005

* Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex (honorary)
* Freda Ahenakew
* Donald Black
* Maria Campbell
* Irène Fournier Chabot
* James Dosman
* Bryan Harvey
* Lusia Pavlychenko
* Joseph Pettick
* Garnet (Sam) Richardson
* John Francis (Frank) Roy
* Aruna (Annu) Lakdawala Thakur
* James Weisgerber

2004

* Byrna Barclay
* Lorne Carrier
* Dennis Kendel
* John McLeod
* Suzanne Claire Olaski
* Rajendra Sharma
* Gordon Staseson

2003

* Lorne Babiuk
* Margaret Cugnet
* Bernard Michel
* Roy Romanow
* Jack Sures
* Guy Vanderhaeghe

2002

* Nahid Ahmad
* Joe Fafard
* Claude Petit
* Roger Phillips
* William (Bill) Small
* Charles M. (Red) Williams

2001

* Charles, Prince of Wales (honorary)
* Neil Jahnke
* Lalita Malhotra
* Peggy McKercher
* Kenneth Mitchell
* Geoffrey Pawson
* Jacqui Shumiatcher
* Ernest Walker

2000

* Allan Blakeney
* Lorne Dietrick
* Bill Hanson
* Lynda Haverstock (as Lieutenant Governor)
* Robert Hinitt
* Ruth Horlick
* Krishna Kumar
* Sandra Schmirler (posthumous)
* Fred Wagman

1999

* Marc Baltzan
* Frederick Hill
* Gordon MacMurchy
* Frances Morrison
* Pamela Wallin
* Stephen Worobetz
* Clifford Wright

1998

* Isabelle Butters
* Constantine Campbell
* Roger Carter
* John Green (Canadian)
* Savella Stechishin

1997

* Boyd Anderson
* Margaret Belcher
* Carol Gay Bell
* Victor Cicansky
* Stirling McDowell
* Ross Pinder

1996

* Angus Campbell
* Howard Leyton-Brown
* Morris C. Shumiatcher
* J.W.T. Spinks
* Tillie Taylor

1995

* Lloyd Barber
* Elisabeth Pasztor Brandt
* Robert Ogle
* Victor Pearsall
* Theresa Stevenson
* Edward K. (Ted) Turner

1994

* Robert R. Ferguson
* Christine Hodgson
* George Ledingham
* William Perehudoff
* William Riddell
* Carole Sanderson
* Jack Wiebe (as Lieutenant Governor)

1993

* Marjorie Sinclair Butterworth
* David Greyeyes
* Orville Hjertaas
* Ruth Pawson
* Earl Peters
* Ali Rajput

1992

* George Bothwell
* Samuel Bunnie
* John V. Hicks
* Stuart Houston
* Ida Petterson

1991

* Ronald De Pauw
* Yvonne Hassett
* Louis Horlick
* F.W. Johnson
* Annie Johnstone
* Emmie Oddie

1990

* Frederick Cenaiko
* Reta Cowley
* Burton Craig
* Walter Nelson
* Ann Sudom

1989

* Ted Azevedo
* Willa Haughton
* Edward Rawlinson
* Anne Szumigalski
* Arthur Wallman

1988

* E.M. Culliton
* Sylvia Fedoruk (as Lieutenant Governor)
* Marguerite Gallaway
* Violet Margaret Jackson Hoag
* Harold Horner
* Alpha Lafond
* George Morris

1987

* John Archer
* Angus Bear
* Dorothy Knowles
* Ted Ohlsen
* Lillian Seifert

1986

* Saul Cohen
* Sylvia Fedoruk
* Lyell Gustin
* Christian Sutter
* Phyllis Airth

1985

* Hilda Allen
* Mildred Baldwin
* Jacob A. Brown
* Tommy Douglas
* Frederick J. Gathercole
* Allen Sapp
* George C. Solomon
* Phyllis L. Steele

See also

* Saskatchewan Volunteer Medal

External links

* Saskatchewan Order of Merit
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