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Ambassador David H. Wilkins, 21st United States Ambassador to Canada (Topic: Canada-U.S. Relations) |
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| 2005 |
Professor Margaret MacMillan, Provost and Vice-Chancellor, Trinity College, University of Toronto. Author of the award-winning Paris 1919 (Topic: "The Art of Peace") |
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2002
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The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of Canada (Topic: "Putting it All in Context - Judicial Reasoning in a Complex World")
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2000
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Dr. Jaroslav Pelikan, Sterling Professor Emeritus of History, Yale University (Topic: "My Library was Dukedom Large Enough: The Tenacity of the Humanistic Tradition")
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1997
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Professor John Mueller, University of Rochester (Topic: "The Art of Fred Astaire")
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1996
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The Right Honourable Ramon John Hnatyshyn, Governor General of Canada 1990 - 1995 (Topic: "Reflections on a Public Life")
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1994
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Dr. Roberta Lynn Bondar, Astronaut, Neurologist, Researcher (Topic: "Where Out of this World Are We?")
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1993
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Derek Brewer, Professor Emeritus, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, England (Topic: "In Search of Chaucer")
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1992
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Helen Forrester, Novelist and autobiographer
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1989
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Stephen Lewis, Former Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations
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1987
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Her Excellency the Right Honourable Jeanne Sauvé P.C., Governor General of Canada
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1984
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Lord Asa Briggs, Provost, Worcester College, Oxford
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1982
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Dr. Harold Masursky, United States Geological Survey
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1981
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Mr. James J. MacDonell FCA, FMC, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Canadian Comprehensive Auditing Foundation, Ottawa
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1979
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Professor Sir William Hawthorne CBE, FRS, Professor of Applied Thermodynamics, University of Cambridge, England
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1978
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Professor H. Northrop Frye, University of Toronto
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1977
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Sir Harold Mitchell B.T., Chief Executive, Luscar Ltd., Zermatt, Switzerland
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1976
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His Excellency Thomas O. Enders, United States Ambassador to Canada
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1975
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Commissioner S. M. Hodgson, Northwest Territories, Yellowknife
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1974
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Professor F. R. Hayes, Professor of Biology, Dalhousie University
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1973
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Professor Phillip Tobias, Head of the Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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1972
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Professor Zelman Cowen, Vice-Chancellor, University of Queensland, Australia
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1971
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Dr. Claude Bissel, Former President, University of Toronto
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1970
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The Honourable Mr. Justice W. G. Morrow, Judge of the Territorial Court of the Northwest Territories
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1969
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Dr. A. W. Trueman, Chancellor, University of Western Ontario
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1968
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Lord Hankey, British Diplomat
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1967
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Professor James Barrington, Visiting Professor of International Relations, University of Alberta
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1966
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Chester Ronning, Canadian Diplomat expert on China
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1965
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Blair Fraser, Newspaperman and journalist
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1964
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Dr. Wilder Penfield, Neurosurgeon, Royal Victoria and Montreal General Hospitals
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1963
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C. Northcote Parkinson, Author, historian and journalist, President of Parkinson Institute
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1962
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Mr. Justice Samuel Freedman, Judge, Manitoba Court of Appeal Chancellor, University of Manitoba
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1961
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Ezra Taft Benson, United States Secretary of Agriculture during the Eisenhower Administration
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1960
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James M. Minifie, CBC Washington Correspondent
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1959
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Sir Grantley Adams, First Prime Minister of the Federation of West Indies, Founder and leader of Barbados Labour Movement
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1958
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Sidney E. Smith, Secretary of State for External Affairs, Dean of Law, Dalhousie University, President , University of Manitoba, President, University of Toronto
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1957
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Sir Alan P. Herbert, Author, former M.P.
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1956
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Lewis W. Douglas, United States Ambassador to Great Britain
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