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Order of Ontario

This article is about the Canadian order. Oont is Urdu for "camel" and was adopted as an Anglo-Indian term for the animal during British rule of India.

The Order of Ontario is a prestigious society in the Canadian province of Ontario. Created in 1986 by then Lieutenant Governor Lincoln Alexander, induction into the order is the highest official honour in the province. The order recognizes individual excellence and achievement in any field, but is not awarded for acts of bravery.

When a Lieutenant Governor is sworn in, he or she automatically becomes Chancellor of the order during the terms of office, and, as such, a member for life.

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Each year, inductees are selected by an advisory council consisting of the Chief Justice of Ontario (chair), the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, and the Secretary of the Cabinet, as well as other members of the order. The order can be awarded to residents or former long-term residents of Ontario, who are not sitting elected federal, provincial, or municipal representatives. The order may not be awarded posthumously; however, candidates who are alive when they are nominated but who die before being inducted into the order remain eligible. Members of the order may use the post-nominal letters OOnt following their names.

The insignia of the order is a stylized trillium, in white and green enamel, edged in gold. In the centre of the trillium is the provincial shield of arms, surmounted by a Crown. The ribbons are red (the colour of the Ontario Ensign), white, green and gold.

1998

Marion Anderson — Aboriginal band councillor

Bluma Appel — Philanthropist and patron of the arts

Jean Ashworth Bartle — Founder and director of the Toronto Children's Chorus

Allan Leslie Beattie — Lawyer and former chairman of the board for the Hospital for Sick Children

Irene Broadfoot — Community activist

Norman Campbell — Composer

Armando Felice DeLuca — Community activist

Claire O. Dimock — Community activist

Ydessa Hendeles — Founder, director and curator of the Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation and Grand Founder of the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)

Dr. Kenneth C. Hobbs — Physician and international humanitarian

Hon. Henry N. R. Jackman — Business leader, philanthropist, former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Chair of the Ontario Arts Council and Chancellor of the University of Toronto

Maureen Kempston Darkes — President and General Manager of General Motors Canada Ltd. and community activist

Marvelle Koffler — Founder of the Marvelle Koffler Breast Centre at Mount Sinai Hospital and the Koffler Centre for the Arts

Dr. Lap Cheung Lee — Community activist

Andrée Lortie — Advocate of the francophone community

Knowlton Nash — Journalist

Alfred U. Oakie — Pioneer in the field of traffic safety

Lloyd Seivright — International activist

Masami Tsuruoka — Sports

Thomas Leonard Wells — Politician

1999

William Blake — Community activist

Doris Boissoneau — Ojibwe language activist

Paul Michel Bosc — Wine-maker

Mavis Elaine Burke — Educator, advocate for early childhood education and community activist

Clarice Chalmers — Philanthropist

Keshav Chandaria — Philanthropist

Susan Charness — Activist with persons with disabilities

Sam John Ciccolini — Entrepreneur and philanthropist

Esther Farlinger — Charity fundraiser

Victor Feldbrill — Violinist, orchestral conductor and champion of Canadian music

Dr. James Ferguson — Medical researcher

Maxwell Goldhar — Businessman, philanthropist

Doris Lau — Financial adviser, charity fundraiser, goodwill ambassador for Ontario and scholarship sponsor

Eileen McGregor — Community activist

Winnie "Roach" Leuszler — First Canadian to swim the English Channel, sportswoman

Alice King Sculthorpe — Community activist

Dr. Bette M. Stephenson — Physician, founding member of the College of Family Physicians Canada, former Ontario Progressive Conservative MPP and cabinet minister

Hin Cheung Tam — Community activist

Gordie Tapp — Entertainer

Anthony Toldo — Industrialist and philanthropist

Lisette Véron-Rainu — Children's activitist

Ken Watts — Founder of the Ontario Collegiate Drama Festival

2000

Danielle Allen and Normand Pellerin — Educators

Maggie Atkinson — Lawyer and AIDS activist

Marilyn Brooks — Fashion designer and philanthropist

Nickie Cassidy — Activist with Multiple Sclerosis sufferers

Ernie Checkeris — Educator and activist, Chancellor of Thorneloe University, Sudbury

George A. Cohon — Chicago-born lawyer and Founder and Senior Chairman of McDonald's Restaurants of Canada and philanthropist

Lloyd Dennis — Educator

William Andrew Dimma — Businessman and educator

Kildare Dobbs — Writer and journalist

Joyce Fee — Educator and community activist

Dr. Robert Freedom — Physician, professor and author

Donald H. Harron — Journalist, author and actor

Jane Jacobs — American-born author and Toronto urban philosopher

Stephan Lewar — Venture capitalist, financier and philanthropist

Janet MacInnis — Fundraiser and volunteer

Frank Miller — Politician (former Premier of Ontario)

Betty Oliphant — Founder of the National Ballet School of Canada

J. Robert S. Prichard — Educator, author and former President of the University of Toronto

Joseph Radmore — Athlete, member of the Canadian Paralympic Team

Margaret M. Risk — Nurse

Haroon Siddiqui — Journalist and columnist

Dr. Calvin Stiller — Physician

Donald A. Stuart — Gold and silversmith

Dr. Lap-Chee Tsui — Molecular geneticist and vice-chancellor of the University of Hong Kong

Irving Ungerman — Entrepreneur, boxer and activist

2001

Richard M. Alway — President and Vice-Chancellor of St. Michael's College, promoter of Catholic-Anglican dialogue in Canada.

Gwen M. Boniface — First female Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner

Rita Burak — Public servant

Danielle Campo — Athlete, member of the Canadian Paralympic Team

Michael "Pinball" Clemons — President and former player of the Toronto Argonauts

Ken Danby — Artist

Terry Daynard — Researcher and teacher

Terrence J. Donnelly — Fundraiser for cardiac research and development

Gail J. Donner — Dean of the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto, and Executive Director of the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario

Fredrik Stefan Eaton — Businessman and a community volunteer

C. Dennis Flynn — Elected official, fundraiser, community volunteer and war veteran

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Nicolas D. Georganas — Pioneer in multimedia medical communications and tele-learning

Helen Haddow — Community activist

Paul Kells — Workplace safety advocate

Jake Lamoureux — Volunteer with young people

Alexina Louie — Composer of classical music

Lewis W. MacKenzie, Major General (Retired) — Ontario Director of ICROSS Canada, the International Community for the Relief of Starvation and Suffering

Signe and Robert McMichael — Builders and donors of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection of Group of Seven paintings in Kleinburg

Dusty Miller — Patron of the arts, artistic director of the Cambrian Players

David Mirvish — Leader in the development and promotion of the visual arts in Ontario

Peter Nesbitt Oliver — Historian

James S. Redpath — Chancellor of Nipissing University

Dr. Donald T. Stuss — Clinical psychologist, educator, neuropsychologists and behavioural neuroscientists

Bhausaheb Ubale — Human rights activist

Dr. Carin Wittnich — University of Toronto professor and researcher

Madeline Ziniak — Vice-president and executive producer of CFMT television, promoter of multiculturalism

2002

Peggy Baker — Dancer, choreographer and teacher; founder of the Toronto-based Dancemakers

James K. Bartleman — Lieutenant Governor of Ontario

Marilyn Bell DiLascio — First person to swim Lake Ontario (1954)

David Blackwood — Artist

Frederick M. Catzman — Lawyer

Austin Clarke — Author, teacher, mentor, writer-in-residence at the University of Toronto, and recipient of the 2002 Giller Prize

Barbara Chilcott — Actress

Mario Cortellucci — Fundraiser

Patricia Freeman Marshall — Community activist

Irving R. Gerstein — Businessman and philanthropist

Joan Goldfarb — Teacher of adults with disabilities

Walter Gretzky — Ambassador for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind and the Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation and father of Wayne Gretzky

Phyllis M. Grosskurth — Professor emerita and fellow of Massey College at the University of Toronto; winner of the Governor General's Award for non-fiction in 1965

Dr. Raymond O. Heimbecker — Cardiovascular surgeon

Patrick John Keenan — Volunteer

Tom Kneebone — Actor and playwright

Burton Kramer — Graphic designer

Dr. Benson Lau — Physician and teacher

J. Douglas Lawson — Volunteer, Vice-Chairman of the Ontario Arts Council

Rhéal Leroux — Volunteer, former president of the Festival Franco-Ontarien

Dr. William K. Lindsay — Surgeon and professor

Joan Murray — Art historian, former director of the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa

Mark Poznansky — Researcher, President and Scientific Director of the Robarts Research Institute

Dr. Joanna Santa Barbara — Physician, national president of the Physicians for Global Survival

Thomas H. B. Symons — Founder of Trent University and its president and vice-chancellor from 1961 to 1972

Lela Wilson — Champion of artists' rights

2003

Joseph J. Barnicke — Business leader, pioneer and philanthropist

John Kim Bell — Musician and promoter of Aboriginal culture

Col. Archibald J. D. Brown — Businessman, community activist

Dorothy Ellen Duncan — Teacher, curator, Executive Director of The Ontario Historical Society

Julian Fantino — Police officer, former Chief of Police for London, York Region and Toronto; now Ontario's Commissioner Of Emergency Management

Mary Germain — Community activist

Dr. Avis E. Glaze — Teacher, administrator, author and international educator

Dr. Benjamin Goldberg — Psychiatrist

Doris Grinspun — Executive Director of the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO)

George Gross — Corporate Sports Editor of Sun Media Corporation, activist

Macklin Hancock — Pioneer in urban planning, urban design and landscape architecture

Ryan Hreljac — Elementary school student; committed to raising funds for clean water and sanitation projects around the world since the age of six

Dr. Frederic Jackman — Psychologist

Laura Louise Legge — Lawyer and community activist

Helen Lu — Volunteer, organizer and fundraiser for charitable organizations in Toronto

Dr. Donald Mackay — Environmental scientist, Professor of Environmental and Resource Studies at Trent University, and director of the Canadian Environmental Modelling Centre

Hon. Jack Marshall — Second World War veteran, Member of Parliament, Senator, and activist

Anna Porter — Publisher and author

Hon. Robert Keith Rae — Lawyer, Member of Parliament, former Premier of Ontario

Eric Wilfrid Robinson — Promoter of adult education in Canada

Diane Simard Broadfoot — Community activist

Joan Thompson — Volunteer

Rita Tsang — Businesswoman

Hon. Mabel Van Camp — Scholar, lawyer, Supreme Court Justice

Mike Weir — Golfer, first Canadian to win the Masters Golf Tournament

Kirk A. Wipper — Environmentalist, heritage conservationist and fitness advocate

William John Withrow — Former director of the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)

2004

Dr. Tyseer Aboulnasr — respected leader in engineering

Jeff Adams — paralympian and world champion in wheelchair sports

Mohammad Azhar Ali Khan — journalist and multiculturalism expert

Diana Alli — outreach worker

Patricia Ann Arato — aphasia care volunteer

Dr. Robin F. Badgley — sociologist, founder of Department of Behavioural Science at the University of Toronto

Iain Baxter — conceptual artist

Louise Binder — speaker on HIV/AIDS issues

Richard Bradshaw — director of the Canadian Opera Company

Leonard A. Braithwaite — lawyer and former MPP

Dr. Inez Elliston — educator and community volunteer

Adele Fifield — director of The War Amps

Joan Francolini — community volunteer

Sheldon Galbraith — figure skating coach

Dr. Allan Gross — Professor of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

Andrea Hansen — violinist

Joyce Ann Lange — advocate for the hearing impaired

Delores Lawrence — leading female entrepreneur and philanthropist

René J. Marin — respected Francophone jurist

David McGirr — community volunteer in Northern Ontario

Anthony Pawson — scientist known for research of signal transduction in cells

Kim Phuc Phan Thi — Vietnamese napalm victim

John Rochon — marksman

Chandrakant Shah — public health educator

Gordon Surgeoner — entomologist specializing in insect transmitted diseases

Galen Weston — businessman in food services sector

Reverend Monsignor Lawrence (Wawrzyniec) Anthony Wnuk P.A. — outreach worker in the Polish community

James Young — former Chief Coroner

Margaret Zeidler — architect

2006

Naomi Alboim — Public servant

Ron Barbaro — Community service

Harold Brathwaite — Educator

Boris Brott — Conductor, Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra and others

Donald Carr — Lawyer

Brian Desbiens — Educator

Thomas Dignan — Aboriginal healthcare advocate

Deborah Ellis — Children's author and human rights advocate

Hughes Eng — Community service

Brenda L. Gallie — Expert in the treatment of retinoblastoma

Dorothy Griffiths — Researcher, professor

William A. Harshaw — Fundraiser, Parkinson's disease

John Honderich — Former editor and publisher, Toronto Star

Leon Katz — Engineer, medical inventor

Gisèle Lalonde — Educator

Mike Lazaridis — Founder, Research In Motion; inventor, BlackBerry

Beatrice Levis — Advocate for social justice

Nancy Lockhart — Chair, Ontario Science Centre

Ernest McCulloch — Pioneer in stem cell biology

Lillian McGregor — Teacher of aboriginal languages

Sher Ali Mirza — Engineer

Ratna Omidvar — Former president, Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants

Sandra Rotman — Philanthropist

Mark Starowicz — Broadcaster and journalist

Marlene Streit — Professional golfer

Ronald W. Taylor — Physician in sports medicine; team physician to the Toronto Blue Jays

James Till — Pioneer in stem cell biology

John Walker Whiteside — Assistant crown attorney

Moses Znaimer — Broadcaster

2007

Thomas J. Bitove — Businessman and community activist

John Richard Bond — University of Toronto astrophysicist and cosmologist

Bernice and Rolland Desnoyers - Youth activists

Peter J. George — Economist, author, President and Vice Chancellor of McMaster University in Hamilton and Chair of the Council of Ontario Universities

Christopher A. Harris — Co-founder of the Ottawa-Carleton Immigrant Services Organization, the National Capital Alliance on Race Relations and the Jamaican Ottawa Community Association

Peter A. Herrndorf —

Rebecca F. Jamieson — First Nations activist

Max Keeping — Ottawa media personality

M. David Lepofsky — Disability activist

Dr. Tak W. Mak — Biomedical scientist

J. William McConkey — University of Windsor professor

Dr. Roderick R. McInnes — University of Toronto professor and senior scientist with the Hospital for Sick Children

The Honourable R. Roy McMurtry — Former Chief Justice of Ontario and Attorney General of Ontario

Lorraine Monk — Author, photographer, and artist

Albert Kai-Wing Ng — Graphic designer

Adeena Niazi —

Gordon M. Nixon — President and CEO of the Royal Bank of Canada

Margaret Helen Ogilvie — Chancellor’s Professor of Law at Carleton University

Eva Olsson — Concentration camp survivor

Marlene Ann Pierre — Aboriginal activist

Dr. Frances A. Shepherd — University of Toronto professor

Janice Gross Stein — Scholar

Paul-François Sylvestre — Novelist, researcher and mentor

William Thorsell — Director and CEO of the Royal Ontario Museum

Dr. David Walde — Director of the Oncology Program

Dr. Paul Walfish — University of Toronto professor and senior consultant

2008

Dr. Sheela Basrur — Former Chief Medical Officer of Ontario

External links

Order of Ontario official site

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