Honorary degrees are awarded to deserving individuals each year at Convocation.
The Senate of ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ Allison University awards honorary degrees to individuals who are nationally or internationally recognized within their fields, those who have demonstrated service to ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ Allison or the wider community, or prominent public persons.
2024 honorary degree recipients
Jane Craighead (‘80)
Canadian business leader, philanthropist, and former vice-chair of the ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ Allison Board of Regents
Biography
A proud and very active ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ Allison alumna, Jane Craighead had a long career in business including in finance and human resource management. She worked in leadership roles at some of Canada’s largest companies and worked and lived internationally. Most recently she retired as Senior Vice-President, Global Human Resources with Scotiabank.
Craighead and her husband James Cherry are philanthropists, supporting the areas of community, health, and education. In 2021, they created the Jane Craighead and James Cherry Innovation Grant at ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ Allison, supporting the student experience in areas such as entrepreneurship, technology, and community engagement.
Craighead served the University in many different ways, including as a member of the Board of Regents and as the Board’s vice-chair from 2019-2021. Over the years, she served on a number of committees and in 2017 received the Board Service Medal for her many contributions.
She serves on a number of boards, including the McGill University Health Centre Foundation, which raises money for medical research, as well as four public company boards and a private advisory board. She was named a Canada’s Most Powerful Woman: Top 100 by WXN.
After graduating from ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ Allison, Craighead earned a Graduate Diploma in Public Accounting from McGill, became a Certified Public Accountant and Chartered Accountant in 1982, and earned a PhD in Management from McGill in 1996. She has been a professor in the business schools at Concordia University and McGill University and has published academic research in behavioural economics and accounting.
Alex Fancy (‘61)
Professor Emeritus, Founder and Director of Tintamarre, 3M National Teaching Fellow
Biography
Professor emeritus Alex Fancy returned to ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ Allison to teach French in 1965 and would also teach drama. He taught in the Middlebury College summer graduate program from 2006-2014. He has served ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ Allison in several administrative roles.
In 1982, Fancy founded Tintamarre, a bilingual theatre troupe that promotes acceptance of linguistic and cultural diversity and the role that theatre can play in education. The troupe presents original productions during the academic year, touring each spring to schools throughout the Maritimes and beyond for over three decades and performing for 165,000 students and their teachers.
With a career spanning seven decades, Fancy has published academic and creative works and has written original playscripts, most of them bilingual. He directed over 100 productions and memorably wrote, directed, and performed in five annual productions of Allisonians at War.
Fancy established a summer language program and developed Expressivité, a linguistic pedagogical model based on the concept that speech is a dramatic activity. He has given more than 150 workshops on drama and language acquisition.
In 1988 he received a 3M National Teaching Fellowship and was founding chair of the Council of 3M National Teaching Fellows. He was the first recipient of the Tucker Teaching Award at ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ Allison in 1984 and received the first Association of Atlantic Universities Distinguished Teacher Award in 1991. He was awarded the Paul Paré Medal of Excellence in 2004 and the following year he received the Prix Dialogue Award from the Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick. He was awarded the ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ Allison Federated Alumni Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011 and was named to the Sackville Arts Wall as an Art Builder in 2015.
A testament to Fancy's impact on the University and theatre community is the state-of-the-art Motyer-Fancy Theatre, named after Fancy and the notable Arthur Motyer, the first director of drama, with whom he worked over many years to develop the program.
The Honourable J. Michael MacDonald (‘76)
22nd Chief Justice of Nova Scotia; Counsel, Stewart McKelvey
Biography
The Honourable J. Michael MacDonald (‘76), born and raised in Cape Breton, NS, had served over 20 years on the Canadian Judicial Council, including chairing its Judicial Conduct Committee. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ Allison in Canadian Studies and his Law Degree from Dalhousie University.
MacDonald was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia in 1995. In 1998, he was appointed Associate Chief Justice of that Court and became the Chief Justice of the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal and the 22nd Chief Justice of Nova Scotia in 2004.
Notably, he initiated the Nova Scotia Access to Justice Coordinating Committee in 2014, a group of legal professionals working to make Nova Scotia a national leader in access to justice and promote an efficient and cost-effective justice system for all Nova Scotians.
The Nova Scotia Branch of the Canadian Bar Association renamed its annual access to justice award the “J. Michael MacDonald Access to Justice Award†to honour his work in this area.
MacDonald was recently appointed as a Commissioner to the Joint Federal/Provincial Commission into the April 2020 Nova Scotia Mass Casualty (The "Mass Casualty Commission"), an independent public inquiry created to examine the horrific April 18-19, 2020 events in Nova Scotia and to provide meaningful recommendations to help protect Canadians in the future.
MacDonald retired in 2019 as Chief Justice of Nova Scotia and joined Stewart McKelvey as counsel to the firm and continues to promote initiatives through the firm's Diversity and Inclusion Committee and practices alternative dispute resolution.
David Myles (‘03)
Canadian songwriter and musician, two-time JUNO winner
Biography
Born in Fredericton, NB, David Myles is a versatile and renowned artist, songwriter, performer, and author. His love for music began early in his childhood when he dreamed about becoming a musician.
Myles graduated from ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ Allison University in 2003 with a Bachelor of Arts (honours) in political science and was valedictorian for his graduating class. He released his first album two years after completing his undergraduate degree.
Known for his dynamic songwriting spanning various genres like folk, rock’n’roll, blues, and jazz, Myles emphasizes human connection through his music.
In 2009, he was awarded the ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ Allison University Contemporary Achievement Award from the University’s Alumni Association. The award recognizes Allisonians who have made outstanding accomplishments early in their careers.
With 17 albums to his credit, including collaborations such as the hit single "Inner Ninja" with Canadian rapper Classified, Myles has earned numerous accolades, including two Juno awards.
Myles volunteered as an Alumni Mentor, mentoring Tristan Grant (’18) — also known as Wolf Castle, who is a Mi’kmaw musician and guest host for CBC Radio’s Reclaimed, a weekly series that explores the many worlds of contemporary Indigenous music.
In addition to his music, Myles authored a children’s book based on his song Santa Never Brings Me a Banjo and hosted a podcast and live video series during the pandemic called Myles from Home where he spoke with different musicians about their work and creative process.
Each year in December, Myles organizes a long-running concert series called “Singing for Supper†aimed at raising funds for food banks across New Brunswick.
Past honorary degree recipients
1866-1899
1866
George Scott — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
1870
Charles Stewart — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
1874
William Henry Tuck — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
1877
Henry Pope — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
1878
James Robert Inch — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1882
John McMurray — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
George Seaton Milligan — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Howard Sprague — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
1884
John Lathern — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
Alfred Augustus Stockton — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
Mathew Henry Richey — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
1886
Frederic Woods — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
1888
Abraham Robert Bain — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
George Wheelock Burbidge — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
John Burwash — Honorary Doctor of Science (DSc)
1891
Ralph Brecken — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
Thomas Watson Smith — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
Josiah Wood — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
1893
Byron Crane Borden — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
Douglas Chapman — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
James Dove — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
Edwin Evans — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
Daniel Lionel Hanington — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
W. H. Heartz — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
Cranswick Jost — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
George Edwin King — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
Benjamin Russell — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
Richard Chapman Weldon — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
1898
Abner Reid McClelan — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
1900-1999
1900
Stephen Fulton Huestis — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
John Read — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
Albert Scott White — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
1903
H. P. Cowperthwaite — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
Thomas B. Flint — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
A. D. Morton — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
Jabez Bunting Snowball — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
1904
William Young Chapman — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
George Johnson — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
Jabez Ayre Rogers — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
1907
William Dobson — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
David W. Johnson — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
1908
George M. Campbell — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
1909
Arthur Cummins Borden — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
Benjamin Chappell — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
1910
Alexander Perley Barnhill — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
Samuel Ainsley Chesley — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
Harrison A. McKeown — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
1912
George John Bond — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Mark Fenwick — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
William Harrison — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
1913
R. P. Bowles — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Snowdon Dunn Scott — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
James M. Palmer — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Albert M. Sanford — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
1914
Henry Absolum Powell — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
H. A. Sinnott — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
1915
Samuel Dwight Chowan — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
John Wellington Graham — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1916
George Steel — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
1917
Samuel M. Brookfield — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
William James Gage — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
John Alexander Robinson — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1918
Richard W. Weddall — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
1919
William Lawton Goodwin — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
George Alfred Inch — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1920
Walter T.D. Dunn — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
Frank W. Nicolson — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
George Johnston Oulton — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Aubrey Stephen Tuttle — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
1922
William Albert Creelman — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1923
Frank Dawson Adams — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Raymond Clare Archibald — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Douglas Bliss Hemmeon — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
Samuel Howard — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
Arthur Stanley MacKenzie — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
John Clarence Webster — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1924
James Wesley McConnell — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
Alfred Seymour Rogers — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
Herbert Edgar Thomas — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
1925
Egerton Ryerson Morrow Brecken — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
John William Prestwood — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
1926
Edwin Henry Colpitts — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Edward Calvin Hennigar — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
Clarence MacKinnon — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Samuel Albert Worrell — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1927
Frank Bunting Black — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Frank Parker Day — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Reginald Ruggles Gates — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Clifford William Robinson — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Charles William Wright — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
1928
John Main Trueman — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Solomon Pardy Whiteway — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1929
Ernest H. Armstrong — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
Richard Bedford Bennett — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
Joseph W. Flavelle — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
William Hanson — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Wilford Burwell Jonah — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
1930
Frederick A. Dixon — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
John Hammond — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Lawrence Killam — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Robert Chesley Tait — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Charles Abner Whitemarsh — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
1931
Allison Hart Borden — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Frank Richard Heartz — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Roy Balmer Liddy — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
James Crawford Simpson — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
George S. Whitby — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1932
Herbert Ames — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
George W. F. Glendenning — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
Fletcher Peacock — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Obed Edmund Smith — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1933
Sidney Walker Hunton — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Goldwin Smith Lord — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
George Douglas Steel — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Thomas Mitchell Tweedie — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
1934
Frank Fraser Bond — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Thomas Albert Moore — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Frederick Garland Morehouse — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
William Ryan — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
1935
Elmer John Alexander — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Edward Leslie Pidgeon — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
James Clayton Pincock — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
William Charles Ross — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
1936
Albert Richardson Carman — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Albert George Hatcher — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
William Francis Roberts — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1937
Charles Herbert Huestis — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Alexander Pierce Paterson — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
William Morley Tweedie — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1938
Morse Adams Cartwright — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Harry Bertram Clarke — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
Edward Annand Corbett — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Clara Dennis — Honorary Doctor of Literature (DLitt)
Albert Mansbridge — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Chesley Garfield Mosher — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1939
Clarence Edward Hellens — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
Herbert Harold Shaw — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
John Kerr Sparling — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
1940
Arthur Bliss Copp — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
Louisa Helena Hart — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Charles Albert Oulton — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
John William Woodside — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1941
John Simpson Astbury — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Harold Garnet Black — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Norman Archibald MacRae MacKenzie — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Frederick William Pirie — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1942
Charles George Douglas Roberts — Honorary Doctor of Literature (DLitt)
Howard Perley Robinson — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
Maud Maxwell Vesey — Honorary Doctor of Literature (DLitt)
1943
Richard Burpee Hanson — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
Rupert Carlyle Hollis Hallett — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
Harry Ernest Kendall — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Harold Wilson McKiel — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
John Charles Puddester — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1944
Ralph Pickard Bell — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
Martin Garfield Fox — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1945
James Noel Brunton — Honorary Doctor of Music (DMus)
Norman Coll — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
Harry Jasper Humphrey — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Harold Hayward Parlee — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Frederick William Patterson — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
Ivan Cleveland Rand — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
Sidney Earle Smith — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
Winnifred Fletcher Thomas — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Albert William Trueman — Honorary Doctor of Literature (DLitt)
Thomas John Watson — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1946
Harold Eugene Bigelow — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Frederick Phillip Grove — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
George Hugh Harrison — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Alexander Enoch Kerr — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Percival John Montague — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
1947
Richard Orland Atkinson — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
James Henry Gundy — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
George Gordon Dinwiddie Kilpatrick — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Adelaide L. MacLaughlin — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Frederick Henry Sexton — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
1948
William Maxwell Aitken — Honorary Doctor of Literature (DLitt)
Clement Chandler Avard — Honorary Doctor of Literature (DLitt)
Norman Arthur Hesler — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Ethel Johns — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Harold Arnold Kent — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Sir Gordon MacDonald — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Lloyd W. Shaw — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Alice Lusk Webster — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1949
Norman Thompson Avard — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
William Richard Bird — Honorary Doctor of Literature (DLitt)
Viscount Alexander of Tunis, Harold Rupert Leofric George — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
Marjorie Steele Hallett — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Finlay Eldon MacDiarmid — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
John Calvin Macfarlane — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
Robert Henry Winters — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1950
Frederick William Wallet DesBarres — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Angus Alexander MacLeod — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
Ira Percy MacNab — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Thomas Ewan McLennan — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
William Bartlett Perry — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
Arthur Gordon Pentz — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
William Gladstone Watson — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1951
Harry Orr McCurry — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
John Babbitt NcNair — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
Horatio Ray Milner — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
Gordon Alfred Sisco — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1952
Charles Bruce — Honorary Doctor of Literature (DLitt)
Richard Edgar Heartz — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
David Stanley Likely — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Clarence MacKinnon Nicholson — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Theodore S. Outerbridge — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Louis Stephen St. Laurent — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
1953
Harry Stanley Bland — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
Alan Emerson Cameron — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Robert Harris Chapman — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Benjamin Chalmers Salter — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
William John West — Honorary of Civil Law (DCL)
William Harold Young — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1954
Elias Andrews — Honorary Doctor of Literature (DLitt)
Henrietta Elizabeth Banting — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Nelles Victor Buchanan — Honorary of Civil Law (DCL)
Arthur Sidney Butt — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
Leslie Edward Cooke — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Walter Benjamin Cowan — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
Vega Mathilde Dawson — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Annie Alice Dickinson — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
George Dorey — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Sir James Hamet Dunn — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
William Benton North Evans — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Muriel Florence Elizabeth Fergusson — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
Jean Gordon Forbes — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Edward James Oxley Fraser — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Alice May Harrison — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Margaret Lillian (Harrington) Hockin — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Harriet Joanna Jost — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Teruko Komyo — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Colin Bridges MacKay — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
Elizabeth Amelia McLeod — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Bonar Ferguson Mundle — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Herbert Frater Starr Paisley — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
John McClary Pritchard — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Anne Louise Read — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Jabez Melville Rice — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
Colin Augustus Roberts — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
Mary Josephine Strothard — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Alma Eliza Weldon — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Kenneth Yohan-Masih — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
1955
Hugh John Flemming — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
Roy Fraser — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Charles Leon Gass — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
William Stephen Godfrey — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Harold MacPherson — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Frederick Carl Manning — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Escott Meredith Reid — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
​â¶Ä‹â¶Ä‹â¶Ä‹â¶Ä‹â¶Ä‹Claude DeVere Taylor — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1956
Chesley George Eddy — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Karl Osler Elderkin — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Tai Young Hahm — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Henry Davies Hicks — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Ernest Campbell MacMillan — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Charles Alexander Robb — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Arthur Sagar Robinson — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1957
Sir Grantley Herbert Adams — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
Graham Fraser Cameron — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Mary Helen Creighton — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Cyrus Stephen Eaton — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
William Sydney Gilchrist — Cyrus Eaton — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Arthur Thomas Gregory Harrison — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Stephen Moosai-Maharaj — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Howard Wilkinson Outerbridge — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Kenneth Borden Palmer — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
Lorne Pierce — Honorary Doctor of Literature (DLitt)
Grace Avard Tomkinson — Honorary Doctor of Literature (DLitt)
1958
​â¶Ä‹â¶Ä‹â¶Ä‹â¶Ä‹â¶Ä‹Chief the Hon. Sir Kofo Abayomi — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Marjorie Young Bell — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Victor Lloyd Butterfield — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Charles Fraser Comfort — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Clement-Marie Cormier — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Aida McAnn Flemming — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
James Arthur Forbes — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
Clarence Decatur Howe — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Herman Watson Jamer — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
David Gwilym James — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Charles Herbert Johnson — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
David Arnold Keys — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
John Angus MacLean — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Frederick Mayer Meek — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Harry Christopher Mills — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
James Sutherland Thomson — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Alfred Ernest Whitehead — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
William Lloyd Garrison Williams — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Russell Yuill — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1959
Annie Almira Dickson — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
John George Diefenbaker — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
Christina Anna MacInnes — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Angus James MacQueen — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Louis Joel Mordell — Honorary Doctor of Science (DSc)
Charles Perry Stacey — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1960
John Peter Hagen — Honorary Doctor of Science (DSc)
Roy Adelbert Jodrey — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
David Alonzo Jonah — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Warren Lloyd Langille — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
Graham Stewart MacKenzie — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Frederick Robert Matthews — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
Frank William Nicks — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
Laura Christine Pepper — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1961
Jean Lesage — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
James Alexander Fraser — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
Donald Gordon MacGregor — Honorary Doctor of Science (DSc)
Alexander Murray MacKay — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Jane Elizabeth MacNeill — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Kenneth Albert Parker— Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Louis Joseph Robichaud — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
Kenneth Sapwell Wyatt — Honorary Doctor of Science (DSc)
1962
Viscount Derick Heathcoat Amory — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Marion Harrison Machum Bennett — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Alexander Kirkland Cairncross — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Herman Northrop Frye — Honorary Doctor of Literature (DLitt)
Katherine Jean MacLeod MacKay — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Campbell Leonard MacPherson — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Herbert William Read — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Walter Russell Shaw — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Frank Leslie West — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Herbert Mariner Wood — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1963
Nina Fried Cohen — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Harold Roy Crabtree — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Charles Frederick Johns — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Mabel Lena Windsor Killam — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Wilmot Balloch Main — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
William Earle McLaughlin — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Arthur Bruce Barbour Moore — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Ella Lauchner Smith — Honorary Doctor of Literature (DLitt)
Hugh Stuart Sutherland — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Harold Withrow Vaughan — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1964
William Thomas Ross Flemington — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
James Arthur Gairdner — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Henri Paul Gerin-Lajoie — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
John Griffith McConnell — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
James Ralph Mutchmor — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Gladys Edith Muttart — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Joseph Leonard O' Brien — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Francis Ethelbert Louis Priestley — Honorary Doctor of Literature (DLitt)
Doris Stuart Runciman — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1965
Robert Hamilton Hubbard — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Charles Nelson Gregg — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Robert Hamilton Hubbard — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Robert Cannon Rae — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
William Francis Ryan — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
Hugh Joseph Somers — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Donald Arthur Thompson — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Orlando Harold Warwick — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1966
James MacDonald Richardson Beveridge — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Jean Boucher — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
James Grant Campbell — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Celia Franca — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Winston Edward Hickey — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Martin Mandell Hoffman — Honorary Doctor of Science (DSc)
William Mould — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Albert Edgar Ritchie — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
William Boyle Sawdon — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Suzanne Silvercruys — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Arnold Maria Walter — Honorary Doctor of Music (DMus)
1967
Samuel Nathan Cohen — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
John Wiggins Fisher — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Wilfred Newman Hall — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
William Kenneth MacLeod — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Arthur Charles Neish — Honorary Doctor of Science (DSc)
Ira Edwin Puddington — Honorary Doctor of Science (DSc)
William Harold Rea — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
John George Russell — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Arthur Chalkley Simpkins — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
George Francis Gilman Stanley — Honorary Doctor of Literature (DLitt)
1968
Clayton Amos Baxter — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Kenneth Frederick Byrd — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
David Alexander Colville — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
James Russell Crawford — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Yousuf Karsh — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Henry Poole MacKeen — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
Robert William Moncel — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Moses Osborne Morgan — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
George Isaac Smith — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
1969
Wallace Samuel Bird — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
James Stanley Bowen — Honorary Doctor of Science (DSc)
Stephen Douglas Clark — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Edgar Davidson — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
George Forbes Elliot — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
John Morgan Gray — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Harold Spensley Hamer — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Oakah L. Jones — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Burton Seely Keirstead — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Leon Lortie — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Hugh MacLennan — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Harry Edward Mason — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Pamela Ann McDougall — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Daniel Roland Michener — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Michel Adelard Savoie — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Lea Chapman Steeves — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1970
Brunswick Edward Wallace Barnhill — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Gwendolyn McDonald Black — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Ralph Betts Brenan — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Robert Broughton Bryce — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Fraser Fowler Fulton — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
John Edwin Hodgetts — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
William Clarence Hood — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Francis Primrose MacLellan — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
Lister Sinclair — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Jean-Guy Sylvestre — Honorary Doctor of Literature (DLitt)
1971
Olga Bernice Bishop — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
H. Elizabeth Collard — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Arthur Holmes Crockett — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Henry E. Duckworth — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
John H. Melville Rice — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Sister Catherine S.C. Wallace — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Roy McKeen Wiles — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
James G. Wright — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1972
Zoltan Paul Dienes — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Arthur James Ebbutt — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Harold Pascoe Fawcett — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
George Parkin Grant — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
George Albert Hickman — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Allison Heartz Johnson — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Harold Lee Nutter — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
John Christopher Pratt — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Eugene Preston Smith — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Randolph Carleton Chalmers — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1973
Robertson Davies — Honorary Doctor of Literature (DLitt)
Eugene Alfred Forsey — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
Gratien Gelinas — Honorary Doctor of Literature (DLitt)
Ralph Barker Gustafson — Honorary Doctor of Literature (DLitt)
George Wallace Ferguson McCain — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Philip Warburton Oland — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
William Cyril Desmond Pacey — Honorary Doctor of Literature (DLitt)
William Wright Reid — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1974
John Beckwith — Honorary Doctor of Music (DMus)
Francis E. Chaplin — Honorary Doctor of Music (DMus)
Ralph B. Hood — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Maureen Forrester — Honorary Doctor of Music (DMus)
George Johnston — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Hedard-Joseph Robichaud — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Edward C. Wood — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1975
Vernon D'Orsay Crawford — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Richard B. Hatfield — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
Katharine B. Hockin — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Livingstone Basil Johnson — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
Jean Margaret Laurence — Honorary Doctor of Literature (DLitt)
Jessie B. Mifflen — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Sylvia Ostry — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Joseph Owens — Honorary Doctor of Literature (DLitt)
1976
Laurence Harold Cragg — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Elbridge A. Kirker — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
Charles B. Lynch — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Donald I. Macintosh — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
Donald W. McLauchlan — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Harry S. Morton — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1977
Romeo-Adrien LeBlanc — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Helen Ruth Humphrey — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
John Peters Humphrey — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
Ronald James Baker — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1978
William H. Barton — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
W. J. "Jack" Davis — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Donald M. Fergusson— Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Allan G. Gornall — Honorary Doctor of Science (DSc)
John Webster Grant — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Lawren P. Harris — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
George Ignatieff — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1979
Alfred G. Bailey — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Dorothy Louise Davidson — Honorary Doctor of Literature (D.Litt)
Antonine Maillet — Honorary Doctor of Literature (DLitt)
Hsio-Yen Shih — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Edward Richard Shreyer — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Thomas H. B. Symons — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
George M. Tuttle — Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD)
Mervyn A. Upham — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1980
Dorothy J. Armstrong — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Allan E. Blakeney — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
Monroe D. Donsker — Honorary Doctor of Science (DSc)
Robert B. Killam — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Oscar E. Peterson — Honorary Doctor of Music (DMus)
John N. Turner — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
Edgar T. Williams — Honorary Doctor of Literature (DLitt)
Ernest P. Weeks — Honorary Doctor of Literature (DLitt)
1981
Joseph Laurence Black — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
William A. Broidy — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
John MacLennan Buchanan — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
John Ernest Alexander Crake — Honorary Doctor of Literature (DLitt)
Kenneth Merwin Curtis — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
Rutherford James "Max" Hickey — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Janis Kalnins — Honorary Doctor of Music (DMus)
Margaret Fawcett Norrie — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Allison Graham Patterson — Honorary Doctor of Music (DMus)
1982
Alfred J. Casson — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Donald H. Harron — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Albert W. Johnson — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Mavor Moore — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Charles S. A. Ritchie — Honorary Doctor of Literature (DLitt)
Graham Spry — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Ruth L. Stanley — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1983
William H. Feindel — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Clementina M. P. Godfrey — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Sidney Allan Hopper — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Charles H. Llewellyn — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Edward B. Pulford — Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts (DFA)
Ian E. L. H. Rusted — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Chester B. Stewart — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1984
Chinua Achebe — Honorary Doctor of Literature (DLitt)
Molly J. Bobak — Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts (DFA)
James K. Chapman — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Florine Despres — Honorary Doctor of Music (DMus)
William Ian MacKenzie Turner — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Constance Irene Young — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1985
William Stanley Hayes Crawford — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Jean-Louis Levesque — Honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)
Donald S. Rickerd — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Wilfred Cantwell Smith — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
R. Howard Webster — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1986
Inez Marie Flemington — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Rowland Cardwell Frazee — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Donald John MacLean — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Arnold Naimark — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Cyril Francis Poole — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Sidney Alexander Reeves — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Cedric E. Ritchie — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1987
Thomas DeVany Forrestall — Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts (DFA)
Keith Usherwood Ingold — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1988
Frederick William Cogswell — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Stephen Lewis — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Desmond M. Tutu — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Lois M. Wilson — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1989
John Seaman Bates — Honorary Doctor of Science (DSc)
Roberta Lynn Bondar — Honorary Doctor of Science (DSc)
Daniel Price Erichsen Brown — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Donald Alexander Cameron — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Brian Dickson — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Leonard Ellen — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
John Webster Grant - Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
John Howard Gray — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
John Morton Grew — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Sheila Anne Hellstrom — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Anna C. Mahase — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
David George Pitt — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Ross Elmore Robertson — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Grace Margaret Sparkes — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Pierre Elliott Trudeau — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1990
Sang Chul Lee — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Robert Lorne Stanfield — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Shirley Lavinia Thomson — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1991
Harold Purdy Crawford — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Frank Joseph McKenna — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Geoffrey Barss Payzant — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Bertha Wilson — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1992
Violet Balestreri Archer — Honorary Doctor of Music (DMus)
Geraldine A. Kenney-Wallace — Honorary Doctor of Science (DSc)
Herbert Lench Pottle — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Mary Frances Pratt — Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts (DFA)
Stuart Lyon Smith — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1993
John Louis Bragg — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Wilfred MacKenzie Carter — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Gilbert Finn — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Lois Marshall — Honorary Doctor of Music (DMus)
1994
Rosalie Silberman Abella — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
John Kim Bell — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1995
Jeanne M. Toner Brennan — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Douglas I. MacEachern — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Margaret Norrie McCain — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Michael Smith — Honorary Doctor of Science (DSc)
1996
Catherine Callbeck — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
James F. Hankinson — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Mitsuo Miyata — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1997
Albert Levi — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Donald J. Savoie — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Ruth Boswell Schiller — Honorary Doctor of Music (DMus)
John Hayden Woods — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1998
William S. Hoar — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Sister Elaine MacInnes — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Robert MacNeil — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Ronald V. Joyce — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
1999
George Archibald — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Peter Mansbridge — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
2000-2023
2000
James A. MacMurray — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Kelly E. Meighen — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Michael A. Meighen — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Marilyn Trenholme Counsell — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
L. R. C. "Red" Wilson — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
2001
Elisabeth Carrier — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
J. E. Michel Bastarache — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
2002
Ruth Goldbloom — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Heather B. M. Johnston — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Derek Price — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Patrick Watson — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
2003
Lydia Adams — Honorary Doctor of Music (DMus)
Adrienne Clarkson — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Reuben Cohen — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Ian Hanoomansing — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Fredrick Raymond MacKinnon — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
John Ralston Saul — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
George Kingsley Ward — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
2004
Maude Barlow — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Herménégilde Chiasson — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Muriel Duckworth — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Bernard Imbeault — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Flora MacDonald — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
2005
Julie Payette — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Cuthbert M. Sebastian — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Frances Read Smith — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Michael Wu — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
2006
Cynthia Good — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Hobartson A. James Wedderburn — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Robert Winsor — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
2007
W. Edmund "Ed" Clark — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Judith Maxwell — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Elizabeth May — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Fraser Mustard — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
2008
Aldéa Landry — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Kevin Lynch — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
David Adams Richards — Honorary Doctor of Literature (DLitt)
Donald R. Sobey — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
2009
Sally Armstrong — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
John Christodoulou — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Arthur "Art" Hanson — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Suzie LeBlanc — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
2010
Brent Hawkes — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
J. James "Jim" Keith — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Graydon Nicholas — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Samantha Nutt — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Heather Reisman — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
David Sobey — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
2011
Edward Burtynsky — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Douglas Coupland — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Sheila Fraser — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
David Johnston — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Wendy Nielsen — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Shelagh Rogers — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
2012
Moira W. Brown — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Steven Pinker — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
David Schindler — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Sheila Watt-Cloutier — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
2013
James D. Irving — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Deepa Mehta — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Bernard Richard — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Janet Rossant — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
2014
John De Chastelain — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Dawn MacNutt — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Paul Martin — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
2015
France Daigle — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Lawrence Hill — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Matthew Jocelyn — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Kevin Vickers — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
2016
Roberta Jamieson — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Verna J. Kirkness — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Arthur B. McDonald — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
John P. Smol — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
2017
Louise Arbour — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Barbara Hannigan — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Michael J. Kirby — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Vianne Timmons — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
2018
Sandra Crabtree — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Arlen Dumas — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Waneek Horn-Miller — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Bharat Masrani— Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Beverly McLachlin — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
2019
David Booth — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Andrea Colfer — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Drew Hayden Taylor — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Sharon Johnston — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Sheldon Levy — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Marguerite Maillet — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
2020 (awarded at ceremonies in 2022)
Michael de Adder — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Margaret Fancy — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Scott McCain — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Robert M. Ogilvie — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Beth Powning — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
2021 (awarded at ceremonies in 2022)
Bonnie Henry — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Pierre Lassonde — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
The Honourable Dominic A. LeBlanc — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Terrance Paul — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Jennifer Russell — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Annette Verschuren — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
2022
2020 and 2021 recipients were awarded their honorary degrees in 2022 and no new recipients were announced
2023
Lyse Doucet — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Ray Legere — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Hilary M. Pearson — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Deborah Lyons — Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD)
Nominations
The Honorary Degrees Committee, which consists of representatives of Senate, students, and Board of Regents, considers nominations from members of the broader University community and from its own members, and it recommends for the consideration of Senate those persons whom it determines best meet the stated criteria.
To nominate: persons wishing to nominate individuals for honorary degrees should complete the Nomination for Honorary Degree form (pdf) at any time.
For procedures and criteria used by the Honorary Degrees Committee, and a list of current members, visit the Senate website.
Members of the community are encouraged to consider nominating people from all walks of life. When granting an honorary degree, we are projecting our values and vision to our community.