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Honorary Degrees

Honorary Degrees

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Each year, 51ÎÛÂþ solicits recommendations from the university community for potential candidates for an honorary degree.


The awarding of honorary degrees is an important feature of Laurentian’s convocation and is meant to honour both the individual and the university, as well as inspire our graduates, their families and guests.

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The university’s honorary degree recipients are selected from
individuals who:

  • Have made outstanding contributions to intellectual advancements in key disciplines offered at Laurentian;
  • Reflect the university’s values: students first, excellence, academic freedom, respect, alumni, diversity, truth, integrity, inclusiveness;
  • Have been or have the potential to be significant benefactors of the university either creatively, materially or financially;
  • Have made outstanding contributions to northeastern Ontario; or
  • Have the ability to enhance the reputation of 51ÎÛÂþ through their outstanding contributions in their fields at the national or international levels.


Solicited in January of every year, nominations are accepted when accompanied by a short biography and rationale for why this person should be considered.

If you know of a worthy candidate, please email president@laurentian.ca. Letters of reference are not required at this time. Candidates must not be aware of the nomination.

Honorary Doctorate Recipients

2020

  • Margarete Kalin-Seidenfaden, Sciences

2019

  • Denise Truax

  • Terry MacGibbon

 

2018

 

2017

  • Louise Picard, Letters

  • Perry Dellelce, Laws

  • Rita G. Corbiere, Laws

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2016

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  • Suzanne Tessier, Laws

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  • Charles Pascal, Laws

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2015

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  • Jean-Marc Aubin, Laws

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  • Peter Crossgrove, Laws

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2014

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  • Blaine Nicholls, Laws

  • Masha Krupp, Letters 

 

2013

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  • Ronald F. Caza, Laws

  • James Marchbank, Laws

  • Ron and Nancy Clark, Laws

 

2012

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2011

  • , Business Administration

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  • Patricia Hennessy, Laws

 

2010

  • , Laws

  • Richard Malette, Laws

  • Gino St-Jean, Laws

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2009

  • David Dodge, Laws

  • Bruce Ferguson, Letters

  • Raymond Kinoshameg, Laws

  • Felix Lopes Sr., Laws

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  • Lorraine Petzold, Laws

 

2008

  • Lisa Balfour Bowen, Letters

  • Leland Bell, Letters

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  • Ken Derrett, Sports Administration

  • Ron Francis, Laws

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2007

  • Pierre Bélanger, Laws

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  • John Cunningham, Sciences

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  • Robert Sawyer, Letters

  • , Business Administration

  • Robert McDonald, Letters

 

2006

  • , Letters

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  • John Daniel, Laws

  • Robert Dickson, Letters

  • Frederick Griffith, Letters

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  • , Business Administration

  • Michael Roach, Business Administration

  • Homer Seguin, Laws

 

2005

  • Michael Atkins, Letters

  • John Gammon, Laws

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  • , Sports Administration

 

2004

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  • Kaireen Crichton, Laws

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  • Laura Sky, Letters

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2003

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  • Pierre M. Gagnon, Business Administration

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  • Jean-Roch Pelletier, Laws

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2002

  • Allan Beattie, Laws

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  • George Ewan, Sciences

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  • Dorothy Pringle, Sciences

 

2001

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  • Tony Bates, Letters

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  • Genevra Richards, Laws

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  • James Duncan Wallace, Business Administration

 

2000

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  • Penny Hartin, Laws

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  • Liza Mosher, Laws

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  • Ernie Schroeder, Laws

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1999 

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  • Denis F. Cheff, Business Administration

  • Claire Dimock, Business Administration

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  • Guy A. Goulard, Laws

  • Spyros Loukidelis, Laws

  • Donald Obonsawin, Letters

 

1998

  • John I. Clark, Sciences

  • Morris Duhaime, Sciences

  • Hélène Gravel, Letters

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  • Gérald Janneteau, Letters

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1997

  • , Business Administration

  • , Fine Arts

  • Thomas M. Davies, Business Administration

  • , Sciences

  • Gordon C. Gray, Business Administration

  • William Johnson, Letters

  • Guy Lemieux, Education

  • , Business Administration

 

1996

  • , Physical Education

  • , Sciences

  • , Laws

  • Frank Pickard, Business Administration

  • Wan Pu, Sciences

  • Alan Querney, Business Administration

 

1995

  • , Letters

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  • Joan Newman Kuyek, Social Work

  • , Sciences

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  • Michael D. Sopko, Business Administration

 

1994

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  • Laurent Larouche, Letters

  • Ruth McCuaig, Laws

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1993

  • , Sciences

  • Normand Forest, Laws

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  • André Lacroix, Laws

  • Mary Stefura, Laws

 

1992

  • Tom Angus, Sciences

  • Margaret R. Borley, Laws

  • Mary Lou Fox Radulovich, Laws

  • Alan J. Johnson, Education

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  • J. Arthur Pharand, Business Administration

  • George J. Zytaruk, Letters

 

1991

  • , Sciences

  • , Laws

  • Gerry M. Lougheed Jr., Laws

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  • Stanley G. Mullins, Letters

 

1990

  • , Letters

  • Richard Miles Blackwell, Letters

  • Thomas Cummings, Letters

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  • Robert C. Desmarais, Laws

  • Yves Guérard, Letters

  • Thomas L. Hennessy, Letters

  • William R. Kinsella, Letters

  • Robert J. Richardson, Sciences

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  • Fred S. Sheridan, Letters

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1989

  • Molly R. Hancock, Social Work

  • John Frank Leyerle, Letters

  • Daniel E. Pine Sr., Laws

  • Alec D. Thorpe, Sciences

 

1988

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  • H. Robert H. Stinson, Laws

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  • Ossian E. Walli, Sciences

 

1987

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  • Kenneth A. Brynaert, Laws

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  • Margaret Benjafield Dow, Laws

  • James E. MacDonald, Letters

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  • Albert V. Tucker, Letters

 

1986

  • Herbert E. Brown, Laws

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  • Paul-Émile Filion, Letters

  • James Grassby, Laws

  • Paul Lacombe, Sciences

  • (Ontario) Terry Mancini, Laws

  • Benoit R. Mandelbrot, Sciences

  • Edward Newbery, Laws

  • Arthur Solomon, Laws

  • Patterson Webster, Letters

 

1985

  • , Business Administration

  • Chris Doherty, Laws

  • Don L. James, Laws

  • Nigel M. Kensit, Law

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  • J. W. McNutt, Laws

  • Robert Perras, Laws

  • Alibert St-Aubin, Laws

 

1984

  • Dalton J. Caswell, Laws

  • Marsh A. Cooper, Laws

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  • Hugh P. MacMillan, Letters

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1983

  • Walter Curlook, Sciences

  • Clifford Fielding, Sciences

  • Gérard Gardner, Sciences

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  • John C. MacIsaac, Sciences

  • William B. Plaunt, Laws

  • Maurice Saulnier, Letters

  • Mary Whelan, Laws

 

1982

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  • Yvan Trevor Wheale, Laws

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1981

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1980  

  • Jean-François Hamelin, Letters

  • James R. Kidd, Letters

  • John T. Koski, Laws

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1979

  • John Barker, Laws

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  • Jean-Paul Drolet, Sciences

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  • Thomas H. Peters, Sciences

  • Douglas Pollard, Letters

 

1978

  • , Laws

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  • Margaret Orange, Laws

  • Norman H. Wadge, Laws

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1977

  • John W. Beaver, Laws

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  • Alma Reid, Laws

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1976

  • , Letters

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1974  

  • , Letters

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  • René Marin, Laws

 

1973

  • Donald J. LeRoy, Sciences

  • J. d’Auteuil Richard, Letters

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1972

  • , Music

  • , Letters

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1971  

  • , Laws

  • Harold Bennett, Letters

  • , Sciences

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1970

  • , Letters

  • Paul Field, Sciences

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1969

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  • A. Maxwell Henderson, Laws

  • J.W. Trusler, Laws

 

1968

  • Louis P. Bonneau, Laws

  • David S. Holbrook, Laws

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  • Henry S. Wingate, Laws

 

1967

  • James S. Band, Laws

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1966

  • Jacques Garneau, Laws

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  • William G. Tamblyn, Laws

 

1965

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1964

  • Benjamin F. Avery, Laws

  • William Wright, Laws

 

1963

  • Earl S. Lautenschläger, Laws

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1962

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1961

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