2023 Canadian honours


The following are the appointments to various Canadian Honours of 2023. Usually, they are announced as part of the New Year and Canada Day celebrations and are published within the Canada Gazette during year. This follows the custom set out within the United Kingdom which publishes its appoints of various British Honours for New Year's and for monarch's official birthday. However, instead of the midyear appointments announced on Victoria Day, the official birthday of the Canadian Monarch, this custom has been transferred with the celebration of Canadian Confederation and the creation of the Order of Canada.
However, as the Canada Gazette publishes appointment to various orders, decorations and medal, either Canadian or from Commonwealth and foreign states, this article will reference all Canadians so honoured during the 2023 calendar year.
Provincial Honours are not listed within the Canada Gazette, however they are listed within the various publications of each provincial government. Provincial honours are listed within the page.
The first appointments to the Order of Canada were announced on December 29, 2022.
More appointments were announced on June 30, 2023.

The Order of Canada

Companions of the Order of Canada

Officer of the Order of Canada

Members of the Order of Canada

Order of Military Merit

Extraordinary Commander of the Order of Military Merit

Order of Merit of the Police Forces

Commander of the Order of Merit of the Police Forces

Officers of the Order of Merit of the Police Forces

  • Staff Superintendent Peter Code, O.O.M.
  • Chief Gary G. Conn, O.O.M..
  • Deputy Chief Troy Cooper, O.O.M..
  • Deputy Commissioner Charles E. J. Cox, O.O.M..
  • Deputy Commissioner Roseanne DiMarco, O.O.M..
  • Assistant Commissioner Brian Francis Edwards, O.O.M..
  • Ronald Kyle Friesen, O.O.M.
  • Chief Superintendent Shawn Gill, O.O.M..
  • Deputy Commissioner Christopher Wiliam Harkins, O.O.M..
  • Chief Superintendent Steven Herbert Ing, O.O.M..
  • Deputy Commissioner Kenneth Dwayne McDonald, O.O.M..
  • Chief Ronald David Morrison, O.M.M.
  • Chief Danny Smyth, O.M.M.

Members of the Order of Merit of the Police Forces

  • Chief Graham John Abela, M.O.M.
  • Inspector Leah Barber, M.O.M.
  • Staff Superintendent Mark Barkley, M.O.M.
  • Inspector Rene Beauchemin, M.O.M.
  • Deputy Chief Steve Bell, M.O.M.
  • Chief Francis David Bergen, M.O.M.
  • Inspector Trevor Burmachuk, M.O.M.
  • Sergeant Blair Canning, M.O.M.
  • Staff Superintendent Randolph M. Carter, M.O.M.
  • Superintendent Gordon Frederick Corbett, M.O.M.
  • Superintendent Marie-Claude Côté, M.O.M.
  • Deputy Chief Paulo Da Silva, M.O.M.
  • Chief Constable Dean Stuart Duthie, M.O.M.
  • Chief Paul Fiander, M.O.M.
  • Chief Superintendent Darcy Paul Fleury, M.O.M.
  • Inspector Jesse Eric Gilbert, M.O.M.
  • Chief Superintendent Gary Stephen Graham, M.O.M.
  • Director General Christine Greeno, M.O.M.
  • Sergeant Giovanni John Grillone, M.O.M.
  • Deputy Chief Cecile Hammond, M.O.M.
  • Deputy Chief Jeffrey Haskins, M.O.M.
  • Deputy Chief Jeff Hill, M.O.M.
  • Inspector Adam Illman, M.O.M.
  • Sergeant Robert Kent Jamieson, M.O.M.
  • Staff Superintendent Robert E. Johnson, M.O.M.
  • Constable Robert E. Kavanaugh, M.O.M.
  • Sergeant Maria Keen, M.O.M.
  • Chief Superintendent Kevin R. H. Kunetzki, M.O.M.
  • Deputy Chief Constable Jason Laidman, M.O.M.
  • Superintendent Phillip A. Lue, M.O.M.
  • Chief Superintendent Bryan J. MacKillop, M.O.M.
  • Superintendent Tina D. Maier, M.O.M.
  • Superintendent Gary Warren Maracle, M.O.M.
  • Senior Constable Shawn M. McCurdy, M.O.M.
  • Sergeant Ronda Lynn McEwen, M.O.M.
  • Superintendent David Meade, M.O.M.
  • Superintendent Peter Moreira, M.O.M.
  • Inspector Donald Richard Moser, M.O.M.
  • Detective Inspector Daniel Nadeau, M.O.M.
  • Superintendent Dawn Tracy Orr, M.O.M.
  • Superintendent Gurmakh Parmar, M.O.M.
  • Superintendent Kerry Petryshyn, M.O.M.
  • Acting Deputy Chief Lauren Pogue, M.O.M.
  • Superintendent Todd Preston, M.O.M.
  • Danielle J. Rajah, M.O.M.
  • Inspector Tricia Rupert, M.O.M.
  • Staff Sergeant Carl Sesely, M.O.M.
  • Chief Superintendent Scott Osbourne Sheppard, M.O.M.
  • Superintendent Tyrone Sideroff, M.O.M.
  • Sergeant Eyjolfur S. Smith, M.O.M.
  • Staff Sergeant Shayne Smith, M.O.M.
  • Staff Sergeant David Strachan, M.O.M.
  • Director Denis Turcotte, M.O.M.
  • Constable Annemarie A. Unheim, M.O.M.
  • Corporal Neil Vaid, M.O.M.
  • Director Tony Ventura, M.O.M.
  • Inspector Thomas W. Warfield, M.O.M.
  • Inspector Wendy Weist, M.O.M.
  • Constable Jennifer White, M.O.M.
  • Inspector Joel Derrick Whittaker, M.O.M.
  • Staff Sergeant Mark R. Wielgosz, M.O.M.
  • Detective Christina Witt, M.O.M.
  • Detective Andy Woodward, M.O.M.

Royal Victorian Order

Member of the Royal Victorian Order

Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem

Knights and Dames of the Order of St. John

  • Her Honour the Honourable Anita Neville, P.C., O.M.
  • Chief Warrant Officer Marc Joseph Luc Boucher, M.M.M., C.D.
  • Sergeant Adam James Dickinson Carter
  • Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel John Buckingham Newman, M.S.M., C.D.
  • Joseph Bruce Varner

Commanders of the Order of St. John

  • Beverly Eileen Lafortune
  • John Michael Prno
  • Major Raymond David Valentine, C.D., AdeC
  • Andrew Preston Wilder, M.O.M.

Officers of the Order of St. John

  • Dominic Benoît
  • William Thomas Cahill
  • Hélène Caron
  • Darlene Chalmers
  • Raymond M. Chow
  • Lieutenant Colonel Stanley Anthony Fidele Grabstas, O.M.M., C.D.
  • Joanne Claire Green
  • Glenda Mary Janes
  • Mary Georgette Loblaw
  • Shawn Ian McLaren
  • Jeff Kwong Yuen Mok
  • Marc-Antoine Pigeon
  • Richard Stewart
  • Peter Alan Thompson

Members of the Order of St. John

  • Dillon Lee Wade Abbott
  • Farhang Ahadzadeh
  • Donald Scott Brown
  • Major-General Paul James Bury, O.M.M., C.D.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Donald James Denne
  • Master Warrant Officer Yvon Leger Eric Filion, C.D.
  • Sebastien Gendron
  • Major Stéphane Girard, C.D.
  • Kenneth Brian Hansen
  • Benjamin R. Holden
  • Edna Ruth Knight
  • Gabriella Tracey Kwan
  • Dany Labonté
  • Guy Langlois
  • Sergeant Seth William Ambeau Laroche
  • Stephen Andrew Latham
  • Daniel J. Levinter
  • Richard Nien-Chu Liu
  • Philippe Florent Maurice Lurol
  • Aaron Rey Yu Ma
  • Albert Suo Yu Ma
  • Lori McGeary
  • Gary Scott McPherson
  • Grace Anne Mehlenbacher
  • Philippe Charles Morin
  • Trong Danh Nguyen
  • Stephanie Elizabeth Pilkey
  • Lieutenant Maria Johanna Potter
  • Shane Ryan Potter
  • Hector Leandro Silva Mateus
  • Mark Alan Saxston
  • Anna Smith
  • Gwendolyn Patricia Stoeber
  • Kenneth John Swain
  • Edward Tain
  • Glyn Trafford
  • Ryan Vickery
  • James Leon Vigna
  • Brenda Marie Waldie
  • Matthew Luton Walter
  • Ann Marie Watson

Provincial Honours

National Order of Québec

Grand Officers of the National Order of Québec

  • Janette Bertrand
  • Armand Vaillancourt

Officers of the National Order of Québec

Knight of the National Order of Québec

  • Brigitte Alepin
  • Jean-François Archambault
  • Howard Bergman
  • Denis Brott
  • Édith Butler
  • Michel Côté, OC, CSM
  • Charles-Philippe David
  • Louise Déry
  • Denise Desautels
  • Jérôme Dupras
  • Nassib El-Husseini
  • Sandrine Faust
  • Geneviève Fortier
  • Patsy Gallant
  • Daniel Granger
  • Louise Jobin
  • Gilbert Laporte
  • Alexandre McKenzie
  • Caroline Ouellette
  • Michel Rabagliati
  • Federico Rosei
  • Guylaine Tremblay

Saskatchewan Order of Merit

Order of Ontario

Order of British Columbia

Alberta Order of Excellence

Order of Prince Edward Island

  • Sister Teresa Currie
  • Mary Hughes
  • Scott Parsons

Order of Manitoba

Order of New Brunswick

  • Catherine Akagi
  • Bud Bird, PC, OC
  • Isabelle McKee-Allain
  • Joanne E. McLeod, KC, CM
  • Bernard Poirier, CM

Order of Nova Scotia

Order of Newfoundland and Labrador

Territorial Honours

Order of Nunavut

2023 recipients of the Order of Nunavut have not been announced.

Order of the Northwest Territories

  • Helen Balanoff
  • Rick Hardy
  • Maya Teya

Order of Yukon

  • Yann Herry
  • Tim Koepke
  • David Stockdale