On December 31, 2025, 80 individuals were appointed to the Order of Canada, including a few musicians.
Below is a video the complete ceremony
Links: Order of Canada, More Order of Canada Stories, Video above courtesy of Rogers tv
Below is a complete list of appointees. Musicians and winners from the local area are bolded.
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Companions
- Raffi Cavoukian, C.C., O.B.C. (Salt Spring Island, British Columbia) - Children's Singer/Songwriter
Links: Raffi , Video above courtesy of Raffi - The Honourable Rosalie Silberman Abella, C.C. (Toronto, Ontario) - Supreme Court, Professor
- Simon Brault, C.C., O.Q. (Saint-Jean-de-Matha, Quebec) - Director of the Canada Council for the Arts
- Shaf Keshavjee, C.C., O.Ont. (Toronto, Ontario) - Thoracic surgeon-scientist, educator, hospital administrator
- The Honourable Michael James Moldaver, C.C., K.C. (Ottawa, Ontario) Supreme Court, Lawyer
- D. Lorne J. Tyrrell, C.C., A.O.E. (Edmonton, Alberta) - Professor and clinician-scientist
Officers
- Mandy Rennehan, O.C. (Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario) - Entrepreneur, philanthropist and TV personality
- Donald Lawrence Triggs, O.C. (Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario) - Vincor International (Winemakers)
- John Cameron Bell, O.C. (Ottawa, Ontario) - Helped develop oncolytic virotherapy treatments. Education
- The Honourable Janice Charette, P.C., O.C. (Ottawa, Ontario) - Clerk of the Privy Council
- Bert Cecil Crowfoot, O.C. (Edmonton, Alberta) - Journalist, acclaimed photographer, founder and CEO of the Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta
- Adele Diamond, O.C. (Vancouver, British Columbia) - Researcher and co-founder of the field of developmental cognitive neuroscience
- Janice J. Eng, O.C. (Vancouver, British Columbia) - Neurological rehabilitation
- Judy Illes, O.C. (Vancouver, British Columbia) - University scholar and director of Neuroethics Canada
- Praveen Jain, O.C. (Kingston, Ontario) - Inventor in electrical energy processing
- Anne-Marie Mes-Masson, O.C. (Montréal, Quebec) - Molecular oncology
- J. Curtis Nickel, O.C. (Sydenham, Ontario) - Urologist
- Federico Rosei, O.C., C.Q. (Quebec) - Nanotechnology specialist
- Roseann Runte, O.C. (Ottawa, Ontario) - President of Carleton University
- Chandrakant Padamshi Shah, O.C., O.Ont. (Mississauga, Ontario) - Professor emeritus at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health
- Marina Andrea Graefin von Keyserlingk, O.C. (North Vancouver, British Columbia) - UBC professor
Members
- Terri Clark, C.M. (London, Ontario and Nashville, Tennessee) - Country musician
Links: Terri Clark, More Terri Clark Stories, Video above courtesy of Terri Clark - Nardwuar the Human Serviette, C.M. (West Vancouver, British Columbia) - Music journalism, musician
Links: Nardwuar, Sabrina Carpenter, Video above courtesy of NardwuarServiette - Barry Truax, C.M. (Vancouver, British Columbia) - Authority in acoustic communication and electroacoustic music, composer, original member of the World Soundscape Project
Links: Barry Truax, Video above courtesy of Barry Truax - Muzammal Nawaz, C.M. (Burlington, Ontario) - Kickboxing, established the first-ever national federation
- Mary Ann Edwards, C.M. (St. Catharines, Ontario) - Founder and long-time volunteer director of the Rankin Cancer Run
- A. Peter Annan, C.M.(Mississauga, Ontario) - near-surface geophysics
- Phyllis A. Arnold, C.M. (Edmonton, Alberta) - Educator, writer, publisher
- Stephen Beckta, C.M. (Ottawa, Ontario) - Entrepreneur, board member and former chair of the Boys and Girls Club of Ottawa
- Elsabeth Black, C.M., O.N.S. (Halifax, Nova Scotia) - Gymnast
- Mark S. Bonham, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario) - Financial services, ]2SLGBTQI+ advocate, champion of post-secondary education
- Kim Ruth Brooks, C.M. (Halifax, Nova Scotia) - Tax lawyer, professor and human rights advocate
- Wayne Richard Brownlee, C.M., S.O.M. (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) - Business and philanthropy, CFO of PotashCorp
- Rosanna Caira, C.M. (Woodbridge, Ontario) - Journalist, podcast host, editor and publisher of Foodservice and Hospitality and Hotelier magazines
- The Honourable Richard J. F. Chartier, C.M. (Winnipeg, Manitoba) - Chief Justice
- Penny Dorothy Collenette, C.M., O.Ont. (Ottawa, Ontario) - Educator, lawyer and commentator
- Patrick George Croskerry, C.M. (Halifax, Nova Scotia) - Emergency medicine
- Jane Laurine Darville, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario) - health care administrator and community health specialist
- Andre De Grasse, C.M., O.Ont. (Markham, Ontario) - Seven-time Olympic medallist
- Mark Dobbin, C.M. (Portugal Cove–St. Philip’s, Newfoundland and Labrador) - Founder of Killick Capital Inc., is a dedicated investor, mentor and entrepreneurship advocate
- Chris Dodd, C.M. (Edmonton, Alberta) - Deaf performing artist, playwright and accessibility advocate
- Sheila Dawn Early, C.M. (Surrey, British Columbia) - Forensic nursing
- Kathleen Fox, C.M. (Gatineau, Québec) - Aviator, chair of the Transportation Safety Board of Canada
- Michelle Frances Good, C.M. (Maple Creek, Saskatchewan) Indigenous activist, lawyer and storyteller.
- Elly Gotz, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario) - Holocaust survivor and educator
- Gerald W. Grandey, C.M., S.O.M. (Denver, Colorado) - Former CEO of Cameco
- Reesa Greenberg, C.M. (Ottawa, Ontario) - Art history and museology, feminist and exhibition studies
- Hans-Jürgen Greif, C.M. (Québec, Quebec) - Professor, author, multilingualism promoter
- James C. Hathaway, C.M. (Vancouver, British Columbia) - Scholar of public international law
- James William Hewitt, C.M. (Dorval, Quebec) - Hewitt Equipment Limited, philanthropist
- Charles A. Hopkins, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario) - Educator in sustainable development
- Ian Ihor Orest Ihnatowycz, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario) - Philanthropy, Ihnatowycz Family Foundation
- Eddy Isaacs, C.M. (Edmonton, Alberta) - Energy research
- Alfred Morris Kwinter, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario) - Personal injury, property loss and insurance lawyer, director of the Advocates’ Society
- Gillian Kydd, C.M. (Roberts Creek, British Columbia) - Educator, co-founder of the Open Minds/Beyond the Classroom Network
- Martha Langford, C.M. (Montréal, Quebec) - Art historian and scholar in the field of photographic arts
- Roger J. Lewis, C.M. (Dartmouth, Nova Scotia) - Mi'kmaq historian and archaeologist
- William Joseph Logan, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario) - Pediatric neurology
- Elizabeth MacLeod, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario) - Children’s author
- Allison Joan McGeer, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario) - Epidemiological policy advisor
- Irene Y. McNeill, C.M. (Aurora, Ontario) - Helped develop the sport of sailing in Canada
- Rassi Nashalik, C.M. (Yellowknife, Northwest Territories) - Inaugural host of CBC’s Igalaaq, the first Inuktitut-language daily television newscast
- Pamela Joan Newall, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario) - Forensic science
- Brenda Okorogba, C.M. (Ottawa, Ontario) - Champions equitable access to education and workforce opportunities for diverse communities
- Patricia O’Malley, C.M. (Stratford, Ontario) - Chartered professional accountant
- Brendan John Paddick, C.M. (Freeport, Bahamas and Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland and Labrador) - Entrepreneur and executive, co-founder of the Dollar A Day Foundation
- Susan Phillips, C.M. (Ottawa, Ontario) - Professor, founded Canada’s only graduate program in philanthropy
- Alamin Proton Rahman, C.M., O.N.L.(St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador) - Genomics expert, professor
- James Retallack, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario) - Scholar of modern German history
- Jean Robert, C.M. (Québec, Quebec) - Educator and community leader, advocate for English‑language services in Quebec
- Whitney Michelle Rockley, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario) - Co-founder of McRock Capital, first woman to chair the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association
- Leonard Schein, C.M. (Vancouver, British Columbia) - founded Festival Cinemas, the Vancouver International Film Festival, and Alliance Atlantis Cinemas
- Walter John Schroeder, C.M. and Maria Schroeder, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario) - Philanthropists
- Cindy Schwartz, C.M. (Montréal, Quebec) - Founder, artistic and general director of Les Muses, Canada’s first full-time professional performing arts training program for neurodivergent adults
- Karl Tomm, C.M. (Calgary, Alberta) - Psychiatrist, university professor and founder of the Calgary Family Therapy Centre
- Ziya Tong, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario and Vancouver, British Columbia) - Broadcaster, author, science journalist and filmmaker
- Michael Jon Villeneuve, C.M. (Mountain, Ontario) - CEO of the Canadian Nurses Association
- Della Wilkinson, C.M. (Ottawa, Ontario) - RCMP research scientist
- John Mark Willinsky, C.M. (Vancouver, British Columbia and San Francisco, California) - Founder of Public Knowledge Project
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