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The Alberta Order of Excellence is the highest award given in the Canadian province of Alberta.

The Order was established in 1979 as the first provincial honour in Canada. No more than 10 people may be granted membership in each year.

Purpose

Created in 1979, the award is the highest honour the province can give a citizen. According to the Alberta Order of Excellence Act: The object of the Order is to accord recognition to those persons who have rendered service of the greatest distinction and of singular excellence for or on behalf of the residents of Alberta.

Eligibility

Any Canadian citizen who is a current or former resident of Alberta is eligible for nomination.

Recipients

There have been 86 appointments (including Chancellors) to the Order of Merit since its inception.

2007

  • Chief Victor Stanley Buffalo
  • Evelyn L. Buckley
  • Lt. General Donald C. Laubman
  • David W. Leonard
  • Gary William (Wilcox) McPherson
  • Douglas H. Mitchell
  • Patrick R. Nixon

2006

  • William (Bill) Cochrane
  • Bertha (Berdie) Fowler
  • Richard (Dick) Haskayne
  • Harry Hole
  • James (Jim) Horsman
  • Samuel (Sam) Lieberman
  • Raymond (Ray) Rajotte
  • Matthew Spence
  • Ian Tyson

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

  • Louis Armand Desrochers
  • Colonel (ret.) Donald Stewart Ethell

2000

1999

1998

1997

1996

1995

  • Dr. Stanley A. Milner
  • Dr. Francis G. Winspear

1994

  • Dr. Helen I. Huston

1993

1992

  • Dr. Howard V. Gimbel

1991

1990

1989

1988

  • Dr. Arthur T. Jenkyns
  • Margaret E. Southern

1987

1986

1985

1984

1983

1982

1981

See also

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Alberta


Flag Coat of arms
Motto: "Fortis et liber"   (Latin)
"Strong and free"

Capital Edmonton
Largest city Calgary
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Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins.

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Donald Currie Laubman (born 16 October 1921) began his military career in December of 1939. In 1942 he was posted to 133 Squadron in Boundary Bay, British Columbia, Canada.
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Richard (Dick) Francis Haskayne, O.C., A.O.E., B.Comm., LL.D., F.C.A., (born 1934) is a Canadian businessman and philanthropist.

Raised in Gleichen, Alberta, he received a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Alberta in 1956 and became a Chartered Accountant in
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Ian Tyson, C.M. (born September 25 1933) is a cowboy folk singer from Alberta, Canada, who was born in Victoria, British Columbia.

While part of the groups Ian and Sylvia and Great Speckled Bird, Tyson accentuated the cowboy way and the western life through song.
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Norman Lim Kwong, CM, AOE, KStJ, a.k.a. Normie Kwong (林佐民, pinyin: Lín Zuǒmín) (born Lim Kwong Yew in 1929 in Calgary, Alberta) is a former professional football player in the Canadian Football League and the current Lieutenant-Governor of
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Donald Frank Mazankowski, PC, OC, AOE (born July 27, 1935, in Viking, Alberta) was a Canadian politician who served as a cabinet minister under Prime Ministers Joe Clark and Brian Mulroney. He is currently a consultant with the law firm Gowlings Lafleur Henderson.
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Leonard Peter Ratzlaff, CM, AOE, DMA, is the choral conductor for Edmonton's Richard Eaton Singers. He obtained his graduate degree in choral conducting from the University of Iowa, and his doctoral dissertation on Anton Bruckner's Te Deum
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John Murrell (born October 15, 1945) is an American-born Canadian playwright.

Born in Lubbock, Texas, Murrel moved to Alberta after graduating with a BFA in 1966 or 1968. He then studied at the University of Calgary.
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Jenny Belzberg (born 1928, Calgary, Alberta) is a Canadian philanthropist.

She has served on a number of cultural, charity and municipal boards including Chairman of the Banff Centre for the Arts (1987-91), Vice President of Special Events and board member of the Calgary
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Lois Elsa Hole, CM, AOE (1933, Buchanan, Saskatchewan – January 6 2005, Edmonton, Alberta) was a Canadian politician, businesswoman, educator and best-selling author. She was the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta from February 10 2000 until her death.
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Donald Ross Getty, OC, AOE (born in Westmount, Quebec, August 30, 1933), is a former quarterback with the Edmonton Eskimos, and a Canadian politician, who served as Premier of Alberta and as leader of the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party between 1985 and 1992.
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Harley Norman Hotchkiss, OC , AOE , B.Sc , P.Geol. , LL.D (born 1927 in Tillsonburg, Ontario) is a Canadian businessman. He is part owner of the Calgary Flames and was chairman of the National Hockey League board of governors until June 21 2007.
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Horace Andrew (Bud) Olson, PC, AOE (October 6, 1925 – February 14, 2002) was a Canadian Member of Parliament, Senator, rancher and farmer. He also owned a general store and a farm supply business; and served as Canada's minister of agriculture and Alberta's
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Thomas Gordon Towers, AOE (Red Deer July 5, 1919 - June 8, 1999 Red Deer) was a Canadian politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta.

A farmer by profession, Gordon Towers was an unsuccessful Progressive Conservative candidate in Red Deer, Alberta in the 1963 and 1965
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Edgar Peter Lougheed, PC, CC, AOE, QC, BA, LL.B, MBA, LL.D (born July 26, 1928, in Calgary, Alberta) is a Canadian lawyer, and a former politician and Canadian Football League player. He served as premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985.
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Maxwell (Max) William Ward (b. November 22, 1921, Edmonton, Alberta) pioneering Canadian aviator and founder of Wardair airlines.

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Joining the Royal Canadian Air Force, Max Ward received his wings in 1941 and was assigned to training command as an instructor.
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Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in 1942 from the University of Alberta. He received a Ph.D. in 1945 from the University of Minnesota.
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