Honourees

Meredith Brown

Geoff Green

Roy MacGregor

Jill Heinerth

Explorer in Residence at the Royal Canadian Geographical Society

Claudette Commanda

Executive Director of the First Nations Confederacy of Cultural Education Centres

Daniel "Alfie" Alfredsson

The Honourable Elizabeth Dowdeswell

Lieutenant Governor of Ontario

Right Honourable David Johnston and Mrs Sharon Johnston

Former Governor General and Viceregal

Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin

Former Chief Justice of Canada

Henry Burris

Senator Murray Sinclair

(1951 - 2024)

Sophie Gregoire Trudeau

Kevin Vickers

Stephen Poloz

Former governor of the Bank of Canada

Mark Carney and Diana Fox Carney

UN Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance and climate adaptation campaigners

Kathleen Edwards

Sunshine Tenasco

Founder of Her Braids

Stig Larsson

Owner and Founder of Level Six

Senator Rosa Galvez

Dan Brunton, Parham Momtahan, George Brown, and John Almstedt

Founders of Ottawa Riverkeeper

The MRC d’Argenteuil, the MRC de Papineau, and the United Counties of Prescott and Russell

Members of the Pacte d'Amitié

Lyne Morissette and Jimmy Vigneux

Mission 100 Tonnes

River Surf Ottawa-Gatineau

Autumn Peltier

Paul Dewar

(1963 - 2019)

de Gaspé Beaubien Foundation

Jim Watson

Former Mayor of Ottawa

Gord Nixon

Past President, CEO and Director of RBC