Honorary Degrees – Chronological

Main Library concourse 1920sChronological list of honorary degree recipients

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Year Name Degree
1925 Currie, Sir Arthur William
MacLean, John Duncan
McKechnie, Robert Edward
Nichol, Walter Cameron
Plaskett, John Stanley
Suzzalo, Henry
Young, Henry Esson
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
1929 Burnett, Frank LL.D.
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1930 Boggs, Theodore Harding LL.D.
1932 Marler, Herbert
Paul, Edward Burness
Stevens, Henry Herbert
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
1933 Gravier, Charles Joseph
Hatai, Shinkishi
Howay, Frederic William
Iterson, Gerrit Van
Taylor, Geoffrey Ingram
Tory, Henry Marshall
Vaughan, Thomas Wayland
Wong, Wen Hao
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D
1934 Tokugawa, Iyemasa LL.D.
1935 Babcock, John Pease
Ponsonby, Vere Brabazon, Earl of Bessborough
LL.D.
LL.D.
1936 Cleveland, Ernest Albert
Hibbert, Harold
MacMillan, Sir Ernest
Murphy, Justice Denis
Reid, Robie Lewis
Thomson, David
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
1937 Pattullo, Thomas Dufferin *** LL.D.
1938 Duff, Sir Lyman Poore
Farris, John Wallace deBeque
Nairn, Viscount Finlay of
McGill, Helen Gregory
Vanderbilt, Arthur Thomas
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
1939 Boving, Paul Axel
Hamber, Eric Werge
Tweedsmuir (Lord), of Elsfield
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
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1940 DePencier, Adam Urias LL.D.
1942 Farris, Evelyn Fenwick
Fraser, Charles McLean
Jamieson, Annie Bruce
Robertson, Lemuel Fergus
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
1944 Atherton, Ray
Klinck, Leonard Sylvanus
MacDonald, Malcolm
Pearkes, George Randolph
Shih-Shun, Liu
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
1945 Athlone, the Earl of
Carr, Emily (posthumous)
Barr, Percy Munson
Cody, Henry John
Keenleyside, Hugh Llewellyn
Letson, Harry Farnham Germaine
Lett, Sherwood
Murphy, William Cameron
Plant, John Lawrence
Robertson, Norman Alexander
Ross, Phyllis Gregory
Stead, Gordon Wilson
Volkoff, George Michael
LL.D.
D.Litt.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
1946 Craigie, John Hubert
Harris, Lawren
Palmer, Richard Claxton
Penfield, Wilder Graves
Willis, Samuel John
D.Sc.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
1947 DuBridge, Lee Alvin
Hart, John
Heinze, Bernard
Lawrence, Ernest Orlando
MacKenzie, Chalmers Jack
Solandt, Omond McKillop
Woods, Walter Sainsbury
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
1948 Alexander of Tunis, Viscount
Bezanson, Anne Catherine
Buchanan, Daniel
DeLong, John Bennett
Dilworth, Ira
Evans, Luther Harris
Fairey, Francis Thrower
Gordon, Jessie Fisher
Heeney, Arnold Danford Patrick
Lamb, William Kaye
Levesque, Georges-Henri
Lord, Alexander Russell
Ravenhill, Alice
Thompson, Walter Palmer
Wallace, William Stewart
Weir, George Moir
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
1949 Brittain, William Harold
Clement, Frederick Moore
Cronkite, Frederick Clinton
Griswold, Erwin Nathaniel
MacDonald, Vincent Christopher
Mathews, Basil Joseph
Parry, David Hughes
Richards, Albert Edward
Taggart, James Gordon
Thompson, Homer Armstrong
Wright, Cecil Augustus
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
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1950 Avery, George Sherman
Collip, James Bertram
Crease, Arthur Lionel
Diamond, Randolphe William
Dymond, John Richardson
Farquharson, Ray Fletcher
Finlayson, John Norris
Holland, Laura
Howe, Clarence Decatur ***
Lindeburgh, Marion
MacMillan, Harvey Reginald ***
Menzies, Robert Gordon
Nichols, Mark Edgar
Terman, Frederick Emmons
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
1951 Bunche, Ralph Johnson
Clutterbuck, Peter Alexander
Greeg, Milton Fowler
Hutchison, William Bruce
MacInnes, Isabel Stewart
Woodward, Stanley
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
1952 Ashton, Harry
Barkdull, Howard L.
Brogan, Denis William
Brown, George William
Cade, Sir Stanford
Chresteil, Georges
Clark, John Arthur
Farris, Wendell Burpee
Haig-Brown, Roderick Langmere
Hodges, Annie Sarah
Lower, Arthur Reginald Marsden
Morris, Sir John William
Sloan, Gordon McGregor
Spencer, Christopher
Spender, Percy Claude
St. Laurent, Louis Stephen
Tupper, Reginald Hibbert
Windeyer, Brian Wellingham
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
1953 Bengough, Percy Robert
Buck, Frank Ebenezer
Duke, William Mark
Guichon, Lawrence Peter
Rive, Alfred ***
Rose, William John
Sale, Rhys Manly
Wilgress, Leolyn Dana
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
1954 Chisholm, George Brock
Copland, Sir Douglas Berry
Fisher, Geoffrey Francis (Archbishop of Canterbury)
MacCorkindale, Hugh Neil
Massey, Vincent
Odlum, Victor Wentworth
Smallwood, Joseph Roberts
Strong, George Frederic
Trapp, Ethlyn
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
1955 Burd, Francis James
Campbell, Harold Lane
Collins, Zella May
Davidson, George Forrester
Davis, Richard Edward Gillmor
Hamilton, Amy Gordon
Mayhew, Robert Wellington
Pearce, Joseph Algernon
Wilson, Ethel Davis
Younghusband, Eileen Louise
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
D.Litt.
LL.D.
1956 Angus, Henry Forbes
Carr, Henry
Ingledow, Thomas
James, Frank Cyril
Linstead, Sir Hugh Nicholas
MacInnis, Angus
MacLeod, Hector John
McAdam, William Alexander
McLenaghen, Jessie Louise
Roberts, Stephen Henry
Smith, Sidney Earle
Swan, William George
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
1957 Davis, Herbert John
Fisher, John Villiers
Foley, Harold Scanlon
Hincks, Clarence Meredith
Koerner, Leon Joseph
Mackintosh, William Archibald
Murrin, William George
Robinson, Merrill Chapman
Saunders, Doris Boyce
Steacie, Edgar William Richard
Stewart, James
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
1958 Bennett, William Andrew Cecil
Burns, E.L.M.
Claxton, Brooke
Clearihue, Joseph Badenoch
Coldwell, James William
Costin, W.C.
Diefenbaker, John George
Dodds, Harold W.
Eaton, Fraudena Gilroy
Gage, Walter
Grauer, Albert Edward
Hetherington, Sir Hector
Joubin, Francis Renault
Lett, Evelyn Story
Logan, D.W.
Lord, Arthur Edward
Lussier, Monsignor Irénée
Margaret, H.R.H. the Princess
Matthews, Thomas H.
Bernhard, H.R.H. the Prince of the Netherlands
Pearson, Lester Bowles
Pybus, Ralph Carr
Ross, Frank MacKenzie
Sproul, R.G.
Sterling, John Ewart Wallace
Thompson, Charles Joseph
Williams, John H.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
1959 Brunois, Maitre Albert
Cameron, Donald
Creighton, Donald Grant
DesBrisay, A.C.
Dunton, A. Davidson
Malone, Ross L.
Odegaard, Charles E.
Owen, Walter S.
Parker of Waddington, Hubert Lister, Baron
Robbins, John E.
Taylor, Sir Hugh S.
Woodhouse, Arthur Sutherland P.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
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1960 Barry, Sydney C.
Cameron, Thomas W.M.
Francis, Sir Frank C.
Gardner, John W.
Garner, Sir Joseph John Saville
Green, Howard C.
McNaughton, Andrew George Latta
Montgomery of Alamein, Bernard Law, Viscount ***
Taylor, Kenneth Wiffin
Thode, Henry George
Vanier, Georges Philias
Wright, Louis B.
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
D.Litt.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
D.Litt.
1961 Amyot, Gregoire F.
Armstrong, Charles Johnstone
Chant, Sperrin N.F.
Cooper, Paul E.
Corbett, E.A.
Franks, Sir Oliver ***
Frey-Wyssling, Albert F.
Gray, J. Lorne
Kidd, J.R.
McPhee, Earle D.
McTaggert-Cowan, Patrick D.
Miller, George
Shrum, Gordon M. ***
Weaver, Myron M.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
1962 Bissel, Claude T.
English, John F.K.
Gould, Sir Ronald ***
Lerner, Michael
MacKenzie, N.A.M.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
1963 Baldwin, James Arthur
Frye, H. Northrop ***
Hebb, Malcolm H. ***
Marion, Leo ***
Stevenson, Adlai E.
D.Litt.
D.Litt.
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
1964 Green, Cecil H.
Herzberg, Gerhard
Kelly, Arthur Dill
Robertson, H. Rocke
Soward, Frederic H. ***
Trevor-Roper, Hugh R.
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
1965 Cunningham, George Torrance (posthumous)
Forward, Frank Arthur
Logan, Harry Tremaine
Piel, Gerard ***
Scott, Francis Reginald
Somerset, Dorothy Maud ***
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
D.Litt.
1966 Eccles, Sir John Carew
Jackson, Alexander Young
Martin, Paul
Moscrop, Martha Eleanor Athern
Perry, Gordon Neil
Royal, Lloyd Allen
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
1967 Eisley, Lorne Corey
Gaudrey, Roger ***
Gunning, Henry Cecil
Ladner, Leon Johnson
Macdonald, John Barfoot
Wilson, John Owen ***
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
1968 Eagles, Blythe Alfred
Gropius, Walter
MacLennan, John Hugh ***
Matthews, Arnold Whitney
Sinclair, Adelaide
Wilson, Richard Biggerstaff
Woodward, Percival Archibald
Wright, Charles Seymour
D.Sc.
LL.D.
D.Litt.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
1969 Needler, Alfred Walker Hollinshead
Norrish, Ronald ***
Perrin, Sir Michael Wilcox ***
Smith, Arnold Cantwell
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
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1970 Biely, Jacob
Buchanan, John Murdoch
Firth, Raymond William
Nicholson, John Robert
D.Sc.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
1971 Ker, John William
Michener, D. Roland
Wood, Frederic Gordon Campbell
D.Sc.
LL.D.
D.Litt.
1972 Berrill, Norman John
Hill, Arthur Edward Spence
Hyland, Frances Jean
McGavin, Allan Morton
Sinclair, Lister Shedden
Williams, Merton Yarwood
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
1973 Kerwin, John
Koerner, Walter Charles
Okulich, Vladimir Joseph
Ostry, Sylvia
Strong, Maurice Frederick
Winch, Harold Edward
D.Sc.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
1974 Binning, Bertram Charles
Deguefe, Taffara
Goldenberg, H. Carl
Pack, Doris Mary
Leger, Jules
Ormsby, Margaret Anchoretta
D.Litt.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Litt.
1975 Armstrong, William McColl
Borden, Charles Edward
Daniells, Roy
McCreary, John Ferguson
Nemetz, Nathaniel Theodore
D.Sc.
D.Litt.
D.Litt.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
1976 Arkley, Stanley Tremaine
Coburn, Kathleen
Dion, Gerard
Hawthorn, Harry Bertram
Jackson, Barbara Ward
Reid, Bill
LL.D.
D.Litt.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
1977 Cowan, Ian McTaggart
Fouks, Arthur
Khorana, Har Gobind
Laing, Gertrude Mary
MacInnes, Winona Grace
Woodcock, George
D.Sc.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Litt.
1978 Bell, Robert Edward
Dohm, Thomas Anthony
Shadbolt, Jack Leonard
Smith, Dorothy Blakey
Wallace, Lawrence James
Warren, Harry Verney
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Litt.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
1979 Bandura, Albert
Denning, Lord Alfred Thompson
Green, Ida Mabelle
Miller, Donovan Miller
Rasminsky, Louis
Rinfret, Gabriel Edouard
Yarwood, Cecil Edmund
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
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 1980 Adaskin, Harry
Bryce, Robert Broughton
Copp, Douglas Harold
Liersch, John Edward
Saxon, David Stephen
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
1981 Ameling, Elly
Desjardins, Edmund Joseph
Douglas, Thomas Clement
Laskin, Bora
Wright, Harold Madison
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
1982 Blair, Sidney Robert
Curtis, George Frederick
Krajina, Vladimir Joseph
Robertson, Robert Gordon
Williston, Ray Gillis
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
1983 Angus, Annie Margaret
Davies, Robertson
Kenny, Douglas Timothy
Manuel, George
McGregor, Malcolm Francis
Robinette, John
Warren, John Bernard
LL.D.
D.Litt.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
1984 Bell-Irving, Henry Pybus
Bentley, Leopold Lionel Garrick
Clyne, John Valentine
McDowell, Charles Alexander
Okita, Saburo
Rostropovich, Mstislav
Shoyama, Thomas Kunito
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
1985 Berton, Pierre Francis
Erickson, Arthur Charles
Inkster, James Alexander
Keate, James Stuart
Langlands, Robert Phelan
Munro, John James
Siwallace, Margaret
D.Litt.
D.Litt.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
D.Litt.
1986 Akiyama, Kasuyoshi
Cohen, Joseph H.
Dickson, Robert George Brian
Halpern, Jack
Hawthorn, Audrey G.
O’Grady, John Fergus (*** rescinded May 2022)
Trudeau, Pierre Elliot
D.Litt.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
1987 Bendickson, Agnes M.
Birney, Earle
Brown, May
Colbeck, Norman
Elliot, George Robert Ford ***
Hansen, Rick
Jacobs, John Arthur ***
Lam, David See Chai
MacKay, John Ross
Wyman, W. Robert
LL.D.
D. Litt.
LL.D.
D.Litt.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
1988 Allan, John
Barclay, Ian ***
Bentall, H. Clark
Coulthard, Jean ***
Hood, Leroy
Kain, Karen
March, Beryl
Nemetz, Bel
Wilson, Bertha
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Litt.
D.Sc.
D.Litt.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
1989 Burr, Raymond
Holland, William L.
Iacobucci, Frank ***
Johnston, David Lloyd
MacDonald, John Spencer
Rogers, Robert Gordon
D.Litt.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
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1990 Abella, Rosalie Silberman
Baker, Simon
Belkin, Helen
Bell, Jack
Black, Sam
Carney, Patricia
Chan, Caleb
Chan, Tom Yuet-Kwong
Charlie, Elizabeth Rose
Chelsea, Phyllis Amelia
Franklin, Ursula
Hara, Arthur
Horowitz, Myer
Johal, Asa
Livesay, Dorothy
Louie, Tong
McEachern, Allan
McLachlin, Beverley M.
Mustard, J. Fraser ***
Patterson, Frank Porter
Petch, Howard E.
Prang, Margaret E.
Polanyi, John C.
Sauder, William L.
Vickers, Jonathan Stewart
Webster, Jack
White, William
Young, W. Maurice
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Litt.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Litt.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Litt.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
D.Litt.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
D.Litt.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
1991 Altman, Sidney
Aoki, Tetsuo (Ted)
Dunn, Baroness Lydia
Fulton, Patricia Mary
Johnstone, Lucille M.
Lewis, Stephen
MacFarlane, Gordon Frederick
Oberlander, Cornelia Hahn
Smith, Elijah Edward
Forst, Judith
Maillet, Antonine
Smith, Dorothy E.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Litt.
D.Litt.
LL.D.
1992 Bentley, Peter J.G.
Cha, Louis Liang Yong
Creelman, Lyle Morrison
Dryden, Ken
Fulton, E. Margaret
Hurtig, Melvin Gordon
Jensen, Doreen May
Kanao, Minoru
Lambert, Phyllis Barbara
Larkin, Peter Anthony
Schlesinger, Joe
Scott, Anthony Dalton
Buckland, Peter Graham
Underhill, Anne Barbara
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
D.Litt.
LL.D.
D.Litt.
LL.D.
D.Litt.
D.Sc.
D.Litt.
D.Litt.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
1993 Ashworth, Nesta Mary
Bourne, Charles B.
Croft, Minnie
Erasmus, Georges Henry
Fortier, L. Yves
Forrester, Maureen Katherine Stewart
Gibson, William Carleton
Keevil, Norman Bell
Koo, Pyong Hwoi
Peterson, Leslie Raymond
Wrist, Peter
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Litt.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
1994 Bowering, George H.
Brink, Vernon Cuthbert
Catley-Carlson, Margaret
Chung, Wallace Bakfu
Forgacs, Otto Lionel
Ejiri, Koichiro
Kilmury, Diana
Kirkness, Verna J.
McLean, David G. A.
Mussallem, Helen
Proudfoot, Patricia M.
Robinson, John Lewis
Rule, Jane Vance
Peterson, Oscar Emmanuel
Saywell, William George
Sen, Soshitsu
Smith, Michael
Thomas, Audrey Grace
Turner, John Napier
D.Litt.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
D.Litt.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Litt.
D.Sc.
D.Litt.
LL.D.
1995 Chow, Hong-Tao
Stogan, Vincent
Wall, Peter
Cho, Wan Kyoo
Ekeland, Ivar
Hodgins, Jack Stanley
Webster, Gloria Cranmer
Drabinsky, Garth Howard
Dan, Leslie Lewis
Franck, Thomas Martin
Esson, William A.
Clay, Wendy Arlene
Coghill, Joy Dorothy
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
D.Litt.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
D.Litt.
1996 Forward, Gordon Edward
Shadbolt, Doris Kathleen
Brockhouse, Bertram Neville
Brown, Rosemary
Jow, Liou Jieh
Gill, Gurdev Singh
Splane, Richard Beverley
Splane, Verna Marie H.
Ahn, Chun-Hak
McArthur, John Hector
Lee, Robert Horne
Pace, Norman Richard
Shields, Carol Ann
D.Sc.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
D.Litt.
1997 Choi, Cheung-Kok
Bernardi, Mario
Lemon, David Edward
Aw Sian, Sally
Farris, J. Haig deB.
Lemieux, Raymond Urgel
Taylor, Roy Lewis
Jules, Clarence Thomas
Ohnami, Masateru
Scow, Alfred John
Heppner, Ben
Morohashi, Shinroku
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
1998 Strangway, David
Aylwin Azocar, Patricio
Bell, John Peter
Cairns, Alan
Drance, Stephen M.
Oberlander, Peter
Simpson, Jeffrey
Spears, John
Vagelos, P. Roy
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
1999 Barton, William H.
Blusson, Stewart
Chan, Shirley
Newman, Peter C.
Roller, Kalman
Vogt, Erich
Lamer, Antonio
Lipsey, Richard
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Litt.
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
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2000 Baumgart, Alice J. ***
Bloom, Myer
Egoyan, Atom
Friesen, Henry George
Hardwick, Walter
Ho, Robert Chao Feng
McGeer, Edith Graef
McGeer, Patrick Lucey
Mundell, Robert Alexander ***
Webber, William Alexander
Wheeler, John Oliver ***
Campbell, Kim
Donald, Maureen Mitchell ***
Kalke, Harold ***
LL.D.
D.Sc.
D.Litt.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
D.Litt.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
2001 Arbour, Louise
Blaney, John Patrick
Debas, Haile Tesfaye ***
Hacking, Ian MacDougall
Hardwick, David Francis ***
Kogawa, Joy Nozomi
Levy, Julia Gerwing ***
Pielou, Evelyn Chrystalla (Chris) ***
Schnackenberg, Thomas William ***
Salcudean, Martha Eva ***
Smith, Gordon Appelbe
Smith, Tricia Catherine ***
Williams, Paul Hugh
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Litt.
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
D.Litt.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
2002 Calne, Donald B.
Copithorne, Maurice D. ***
Gardom, Garde B.
Hickling, Margaret G. ***
Lind, Philip B.
Lucas, Simon P.
Moore, D.L. (Buzz)
Parsons, Timothy R.
Scriver, Charles R.
Sinclair, Gerri
Smith, Ronald F. ***
Winspear, Harriet ***
Barber, Irving Kearl
Tilghman, Shirley Marie
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
D.Litt.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
2003 Finch, Lance Sydney George
Joseph, Robert Francis ***
Laponce, Jean
Newell, Eric Patrick
Shaw, Michael
Tucker, Richard Vaughn
Wada, Juhn A.
McCarthy, Grace
Davies, Julian
Sostmann, Rafael Rangel
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
2004 The XIV Dalai Lama, His Holiness
Ebadi, Shirin
Tutu, Archbishop Desmond
Baxter, Iain
Bell, Larry ***
Brynelsen, Dana ***
Fraser, John A. ***
Kahneman, Daniel
Rothstein, Samuel
Silverman, Robert ***
Stout, Madeleine Dion ***
Treisman, Anne ***
Brenner, Sydney
Heddle, Kathleen
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Litt.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
D.Litt.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
D.Litt.
2005 McAskie, Carolyn Mairi
Page, Patricia Kathleen
Leggett, Anthony James
Cavoukian, Raffi
Whittaker, Elvi
Kaufman, Karyn J.
Masuno, Rev. Shunmyo
Lacroix, Robert
Brown, Peter
Thomson, Shirley
LL.D.
D.Litt.
D.Sc.
D.Litt.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
2006 Bartlett, Neil
Hood, John
Kydland, Finn
Margison, Richard
Nussbaum, Martha
Rix, Donald
Samarasekera, Indira
Smith, Alexander McCall
Hart, Evelyn
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Litt.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Litt.
D.Litt.
2007 Bliss, Michael
Campbell-Pascall, Cassie
Davidson, Robert
Dodge, David
Halliday, Michael
Harcourt, Mike ***
Holling, C.S. (Buzz)
Peebles, Philip J.E.
Piper, Martha
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Litt.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
2008 Yunus, Muhammad
Steitz, Joan A.
Gaze, Christopher
Fox, Michael J.
Berger, Thomas R.
Hughes, Clara
Armour, Margaret-Ann
Bourk, Terrance R.
Thom, Bing
de Gaspe Beaubien, Nan-B
de Gaspe Beaubien, Philippe (II)
Blatherwick, F. John
LL.D.
D.Sc.
D.Litt.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
2009 Sulston, Sir John
Guttman, Irving
Millerd, William
Campagnola, Iona ***
Point, Susan ***
Falkow, Stanley
Bernstein, Alan
Apsey, Michael ***
Julien, Kenneth Stephen
Gelbart, Daniel
Graves, Judy
D.Sc.
D.Litt.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Litt.
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
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2010 Coupland, Douglas +++(1) +++(2)
Furlong, John +++
Gedeon, Ibrahim +++
Hogg, James C. +++
Klawe, Maria +++(1) +++(2)
Mercer, Rick +++(1) +++(2)
Obomsawin, Alanis +++
Richards, Dal +++
Volkow, Nora +++
Wallace, Ian +++
Nirenberg, Louis +++
Payette, Julie +++
D.Litt.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
D.Litt.
D.Litt.
D.Litt.
D.Sc.
D.Litt.
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
2011 Sen, Amartya
Austin, Jack *** +++
Bibb, Leon +++
Fung, Thomas Wing Fat *** +++
Loomer, Diane +++
Lyotier, Kenneth +++
McEwen, James Allen *** +++
Turner, Nancy Jean +++
Molina, Mario José +++
Suzuki, David +++
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Litt.
LL.D.
D.Litt.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
2012 Barton, Dominic +++
Clark, Joe +++
Elvin-Lewis, Memory +++
Ho, Robert Hung Ngai +++
Lewis, Walter Hepworth +++
Pierre, Sophie +++
Sainte-Marie, Buffy +++
Japanese-Canadian students of 1942 +++
Wingfield, Michael +++
Martin, Paul +++
Tovey, Bramwell +++
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
D.Litt.

D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
2013 Lakeman, Lee
Point, Steven
Berman, Tzeporah
Stirling, Ian
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
2014 Storrow, Marvin
Mowafaghian, Djavad

Audain, Michael
Bob, Dempsey
Sennerby-Forsse, Lisa
Clifford, James
Klein, Bonnie
Rossant, Janet
Lin, Justin Yi-Fu
Lee, Raymond
Sidibé, Michel
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Litt.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
2015 Isherwood, Constance ***
Cristall, Gary ***
Hanson, Hart
Langmann, Uno ***
Toope, Stephen ***
Possingham, Hugh
Njogu, Marangu
Thibeault, Rachel
Solomon, Susan
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Litt.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
2016 Stiller, Calvin
Hébert, Chantal
Simon, Mary
Koerner, Michael
Jarislowsky, Stephen
Dhalwala, Meeru
Vij, Vikram
Rajaram, Sanjaya
McDonald, Arthur
Carrier, Roch
Louie, Brandt
Wickenheiser, Hayley
Ehnes, James
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
D.Litt
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Litt.
2017 Hall, Judith +++
Picard, André +++
Manning, Preston +++
Parker, Jon Kimura +++
D.Sc.
D.Litt.
LL.D.
D.Litt.
2018
Agre, Peter C. +++
Beaty, Ross J. +++
Fanton, Jonathan +++
George, Patsy +++ ***
Holmes, Ryan +++
Hood, Leroy +++
King, Mary-Claire +++
Oreskes, Naomi +++
Robinson, Eden +++
The Aga Khan IV, His Highness
Phillip, Stewart, Grand Chief
Cattrall, Kim
Trudgill, Peter
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
D.Litt.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Litt.
2019
New, William ***
Chinn, Peggy ***
Gray, Hanna Holborn ***
Hanomansing, Ian
Gold, Phil ***
Lee, Carol
Binning, Sadhu ***
Kazimi, Ali
Koplan, Jeffery
Leong, Edwin ***
Sparrow, Leona
Hoodbhoy, Pervez ***
D.Litt.
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
D.Litt.
D.Litt.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
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2020
Kitagawa, Keiko Mary
Mann, Jim
Morgan-Silvester, Sarah
Porteous, Tracy
Setalvad, Teesta
Cardinal, Tantoo
Goh, Chan Hon
Hill, Lawrence
Johnson, Douglas
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Litt.
D.Litt.
D.Litt.
D.Litt.
2021
Honjo, Tasuku +++
Assanand, Shashi +++
Cotler, Irwin +++
Munroe-Blum, Heather +++
Price, Roberta +++
Edugyan, Esi +++
Davies, Sally +++
Dzau, Victor J. +++
Henry, Bonnie +++
Merkel, Garry +++
Lipstadt, Deborah +++
Thiele, Paul +++
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
LL.D.
D.Litt.
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
D.Sc.
LL.D.
LL.D.
2022 [There were no Honorary Degree recipients in 2022]
2023
Tallio, Clyde, Snxakila
Morley, David +++
Edmundson, Morna +++
Little Mustache, Beatrice, ii naa sii pii taa kii +++
Callender, JoAnn +++
Forbes, Roy +++
D.Litt.
LL.D.
D.Litt.
LL.D.
D.Litt.
D.Litt.
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