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Roch Carrier was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada in 1991. The appointment recognizes a Quebec writer whose work includes poetry, novels, plays and children’s books.
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Nicole Brossard was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada in 2010. The appointment recognizes a poet, novelist and essayist associated with feminist writing in Canada.
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Dionne Brand was appointed Member of the Order of Canada in 2017. The appointment recognizes a writer whose work explores questions of social justice.
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Joseph Boyden was appointed Member of the Order of Canada in 2015. The appointment recognizes an author recognized for his writing and social engagement, including support for First Nations.
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Marie-Claire Blais was appointed Companion of the Order of Canada in 1972. The appointment recognizes a writer recognized for her contribution to literature.
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Margaret Atwood was appointed Companion of the Order of Canada in 1981. The appointment recognizes a poet, novelist and critic whose work has contributed to Canadian literature.
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Geoffrey Hinton of the University of Toronto shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.
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James Peebles, born in Winnipeg in 1935 and a graduate of the University of Manitoba, shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology.
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Donna Strickland, born in Guelph, Ontario, in 1959 and working at the University of Waterloo, shared the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics for a method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short laser pulses.
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Arthur McDonald, born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, in 1943 and working at Queen’s University, shared the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering neutrino oscillations, which show that neutrinos have mass.
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Ralph Steinman, born in Montréal in 1943 and educated at McGill University, was awarded a share of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering, in 1973, the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity.
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Willard Boyle, born in Amherst, Nova Scotia, in 1924, shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics with George Smith for inventing the CCD image sensor.
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Michael Smith of the University of British Columbia shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing site-directed mutagenesis.
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Richard Taylor, born in Medicine Hat, Alberta, in 1929, shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics for experiments around 1970 that scattered high-energy electrons off protons and neutrons.
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Sidney Altman, born in Montréal in 1939, shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas Cech for discovering that RNA, not only proteins, can act as an enzyme.
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John Polanyi of the University of Toronto shared the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for contributions to the dynamics of chemical elementary processes.
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Henry Taube, born in Neudorf, Canada, in 1915, received the 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on how electrons move between atoms in chemical reactions, especially in metal complexes.
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David Hubel, born in Windsor, Ontario, in 1926, shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Torsten Wiesel for discoveries about how the visual system processes information.
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Gerhard Herzberg of the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his contributions to knowledge of the electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals.
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Charles Huggins, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1901, shared the 1966 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering hormonal treatment of prostate cancer.
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John Norquay, a Métis statesman born at St. Andrew’s in the Red River settlement, was elected to Manitoba’s first assembly in 1870 and became premier in 1878. His government, built on shared French and English participation, won an extended Manitoba boundary and better financial terms from Ottawa, and built railways in defiance of the Canadian Pacific charter and federal disallowance. He resigned as premier in 1887 but sat as a member until his death.
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John Murray Gibbon, born in Ceylon and educated in Scotland and Germany, turned from painting to journalism. As the Canadian Pacific Railway’s publicity agent from 1913 to 1945, he combined advertising with promoting a Canadian identity and popularized the image of Canadian society as a mosaic. He organized folk festivals, helped start the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies at Banff, and in 1921 helped found the Canadian Authors’ Association.
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Naturalist Allan Brooks won international recognition as a wildlife illustrator in the first half of the 20th century, influencing later artists. As Western Canada’s leading ornithologist he helped professionalize the field, and he collected thousands of bird and animal skins for major museum research collections. Through his illustrations and publications he introduced generations to the birds of North America.
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William Coaker founded the Fishermen’s Protective Union in 1908 to unite the fishers, sealers and loggers of rural Newfoundland under the motto “To Each His Own.” Under him the union set up trading stores, a newspaper and a political party that fought for social and economic reform, and founded Port Union as its headquarters in 1916. A member of several governments from 1917, he was a major force in Newfoundland politics until the mid-1920s.
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