<h2>2025</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 2025">
<li><a href="https://news.brandonu.ca/2025/05/16/tom-allen-to-receive-honorary-degree-present-chamber-musical-at-convocation/" target="_blank">Tom Allen</a> (<span>D. Mus.</span>)</li>
<li><a href="https://news.brandonu.ca/2025/05/16/soprano-elin-rombo-returning-to-bu-for-honorary-degree-and-concert-performance/" target="_blank">Elin  Rombo</a> (<span>D. Mus.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 2025 -->
<h2>2024</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 2024">
<li><a href="https://news.brandonu.ca/2024/05/28/elder-norman-fleury-to-receive-honorary-doctorate-from-bu-for-preservation-of-michif-language-culture/" target="_blank">Norman Fleury</a> (<span>D. Lit.</span>)</li>
<li><a href="https://news.brandonu.ca/2024/05/27/orange-shirt-day-founder-phyllis-webstad-will-receive-honorary-doctorate-at-bu-convocation/" target="_blank">Phyllis Webstad</a> (<span>D.Ed.</span>)</li>
<li><a href="https://news.brandonu.ca/2024/05/29/prominent-brandon-artist-weiming-zhao-to-receive-honorary-doctorate-from-bu/" target="_blank">Weiming Zhao</a> (<span>D. Lit.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 2024 -->
<h2>2021</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 2021">
<li><a href="https://www.brandonu.ca/news/2021/05/14/brandon-university-will-bestow-an-honorary-doctorate-on-famed-actor-singer-and-philanthropist-tom-jackson/" target="_blank">Tom Jackson</a> (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.brandonu.ca/news/2021/05/19/brandon-university-will-award-an-honorary-doctorate-to-top-provincial-covid-fighter-dr-brent-roussin/" target="_blank">Brent Roussin</a> (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 2021 -->
<h2>2018</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 2018">
<li><a href="https://www.brandonu.ca/news/2018/05/23/renowned-educator-and-writer-linda-hutcheon-to-receive-honorary-degree-from-bu/" target="_blank">Linda Hutcheon</a> (<span>D. Lit.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 2018 -->
<h2>2017</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 2017">
<li><a href="https://www.brandonu.ca/news/2017/05/02/hockey-coach-andy-murray-to-receive-honorary-degree-from-brandon-university/" target="_blank">Andy Murray</a> (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 2017 -->
<h2>2016</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 2016">
<li><a href="https://www.brandonu.ca/news/2016/05/10/manitoba-born-radio-host-and-executive-eric-friesen-to-receive-honorary-degree-from-brandon-university/" target="_blank">Eric Friesen</a> (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.brandonu.ca/news/2016/05/06/brandon-university-to-bestow-honorary-degree-on-paul-martin-at-spring-convocation/" target="_blank">Paul Martin</a> (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 2016 -->
<h2>2015</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 2015">
<li><a href="https://www.brandonu.ca/news/2015/04/30/lisa-de-wilde-mitch-podolak-convocation-honorary-doctorate/" target="_blank">Lisa de Wilde</a> (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.brandonu.ca/news/2015/04/29/theoren-theo-fleury-philip-s-lee-honourary-doctorate/" target="_blank">Theoren Fleury</a> (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.brandonu.ca/news/2015/04/29/theoren-theo-fleury-philip-s-lee-honourary-doctorate/" target="_blank">Philip S. Lee</a> (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.brandonu.ca/news/2015/04/30/lisa-de-wilde-mitch-podolak-convocation-honorary-doctorate/" target="_blank">Mitch Podolak</a> (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 2015 -->
<h2>2014</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 2014">
<li>Eric Lyle Dick (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
<li>Dr. Christopher Summerville (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 2014 -->
<h2>2013</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 2013">
<li>Lloyd Robertson (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 2013 -->
<h2>2012</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 2012">
<li>Anton Kuerti (<span>D. Mus.</span>)</li>
<li>Annette Osted (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 2012 -->
<h2>2011</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 2011">
<li>Heather Bishop (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
<li>Ray Bollman (<span>D. Lit.</span>)</li>
<li>Gary Doer (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
<li>Buffy Sainte-Marie (<span>D. Mus.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 2011 -->
<h2>2010</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 2010">
<li>Phil Fontaine (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
<li>Stephen Lewis (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 2010 -->
<h2>2009</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 2009">
<li>Marlene Fitzsimmons (<span>D. Sc.</span>)</li>
<li>Elizabeth Grant (<span>D. Mus.</span>)</li>
<li>Basil Johnston (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
<li>Brian Keating (<span>D. Sc.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 2009 -->
<h2>2008</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 2008">
<li>Dr. Tom Breneman (<span>D. Sc.</span>)</li>
<li>Dr. Kenneth Dorter (<span>D. Lit.</span>)</li>
<li>Erin Moure (<span>D. Lit.</span>)</li>
<li>Lorne Munroe (<span>D. Mus.</span>)</li>
<li>Shirley Jo Paine (<span>D. Sc.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 2008 -->
<h2>2007</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 2007">
<li>Diedre Irons (<span>D. Mus.</span>)</li>
<li>Dr. William Morrison (<span>D. Lit.</span>)</li>
<li>Fred Penner (<span>D. Mus.</span>)</li>
<li>Justice Warren Winkler (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 2007 -->
<h2>2006</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 2006">
<li>Justice Ronald Bell (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
<li>Ms. Miriam Toews (<span>D. Lit.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 2006 -->
<h2>2005</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 2005">
<li>Mr. Henry Champ (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
<li>Mr. Tom Cochrane (<span>D. Mus.</span>)</li>
<li>Ms. Shirley Douglas (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
<li>Mr. James Ehnes (<span>D. Mus.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 2005 -->
<h2>2004</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 2004">
<li>Dr. James Brown (<span>D. Sc.</span>)</li>
<li>The Honourable Peter M. Liba (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 2004 -->
<h2>2003</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 2003">
<li>Senator Sharon Carstairs (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
<li>Victor Sharpe (<span>D. Sc.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 2003 -->
<h2>2002</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 2002">
<li>D.P. Chang (<span>D.Ed.</span>)</li>
<li>Matthew Choptuik (<span>D. Sc.</span>)</li>
<li>Robert C. Prus (<span>D. Lit.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 2002 -->
<h2>2001</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 2001">
<li>Randy Bachman (<span>D. Mus.</span>)</li>
<li>Burton Cummings (<span>D. Mus.</span>)</li>
<li>Leonard Evans (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
<li>James Kale (<span>D. Mus.</span>)</li>
<li>Don McDougall (<span>D. Mus.</span>)</li>
<li>Garry Peterson (<span>D. Mus.</span>)</li>
<li>Ian Cormack Palmer Smith (<span>D. Sc.</span>)</li>
<li>Bill Wallace (<span>D. Mus.</span>)</li>
<li>Norma Wylie (<span>D.Ed.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 2001 -->
<h2>2000</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 2000">
<li>Yvon Dumont (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
<li>Dr. John R. Wiens (<span>D.Ed.</span>)</li>
<li>Westley G. Wong (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 2000 -->
<h2>1999</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 1999">
<li>Donald Penny (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
<li>Leo Pettipas (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 1999 -->
<h2>1998</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 1998">
<li>Peggy Sharpe (<span>D. Mus.</span>)</li>
<li>Eli Taylor (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 1998 -->
<h2>1997</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 1997">
<li>Fred McGuinnes (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
<li>Lawrence Stuckey (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 1997 -->
<h2>1996</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 1996">
<li>Tomson Highway (<span>D. Lit.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 1996 -->
<h2>1995</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 1995">
<li>Lydia Makhubu (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
<li>Benjamin Schachter (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 1995 -->
<h2>1994</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 1994">
<li>Arthur Amiotte (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
<li>Charles Gordon (<span>D. Lit.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 1994 -->
<h2>1993</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 1993">
<li>George Gooden (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
<li>Dr. Lorne Watson (<span>D. Mus.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 1993 -->
<h2>1992</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 1992">
<li>Dr. Donald A. Robertson (<span>D.Ed.</span>)</li>
<li>Dr. David B. Stewart (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 1992 -->
<h2>1990</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 1990">
<li>Dr. Ferdinand Eckhardt (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
<li>Lewis Whitehead (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 1990 -->
<h2>1989</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 1989">
<li>Dr. Wilfred McCutcheon (<span>D.Ed.</span>)</li>
<li>Dr. Kenneth Winters (<span>D. Mus.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 1989 -->
<h2>1988</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 1988">
<li>Dr. Robert Beamish (<span>D. Sc.</span>)</li>
<li>Dr. Norma Walmsley (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 1988 -->
<h2>1987</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 1987">
<li>Bishop Remi DeRoo (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
<li>Dr. Thomas H. McLeod (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
<li>Dr. John Warkentin (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 1987 -->
<h2>1985</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 1985">
<li>Gerald A. McKinney (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 1985 -->
<h2>1984</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 1984">
<li>Audrey Engle Hawthorn (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 1984 -->
<h2>1982</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 1982">
<li>Dr. Henry Edmison Duckworth (<span>D. Sc.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 1982 -->
<h2>1980</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 1980">
<li>August James Henzel (<span>D. Sc.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 1980 -->
<h2>1977</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 1977">
<li>Walter Gilbert Dinsdale (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
<li>Betty Margaret Gibson (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 1977 -->
<h2>1976</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 1976">
<li>Laurence Harold Cragg (<span>D. Sc.</span>)</li>
<li>James Harvey Tolton (<span>D. Sc.</span>)</li>
<li>Jon Vickers (<span>D. Mus.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 1976 -->
<h2>1975</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 1975">
<li>Andrew Hill Clark (<span>D. Sc.</span>)</li>
<li>Frank Henry Epp (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
<li>Harry B. Hawthorn (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
<li>Grettir Leo Johannson (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
<li>Margaret Laurence (<span>D. Lit.</span>)</li>
<li>Laurence Gladwyn MacPherson (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 1975 -->
<h2>1974</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 1974">
<li>John King Gordon (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
<li>James Henry Gray (<span>D. Lit.</span>)</li>
<li>Paul Gerhardt Hiebert (<span>D. Lit.</span>)</li>
<li>Robert Dudley Howland (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
<li>Henry Heard Marshall (<span>D. Sc.</span>)</li>
<li>William Ormond Mitchell (<span>D. Lit.</span>)</li>
<li>Dr. John Everett Robbins (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 1974 -->
<h2>1973</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 1973">
<li>Beatrice Bridgen (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
<li>Maurice Joseph Cooney (<span>D.D.</span>)</li>
<li>Maurice Stanton Donovan (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
<li>Chief Dan George (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 1973 -->
<h2>1972</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 1972">
<li>Murray Adaskin (<span>D. Mus.</span>)</li>
<li>Dr. Martin Wesley Johns (<span>D. Sc.</span>)</li>
<li>Helen Clara Riesberry (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 1972 -->
<h2>1971</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 1971">
<li>Sarah Persis Darrach (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
<li>John Lane (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
<li>Philipe Andre Renaud (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 1971 -->
<h2>1970</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 1970">
<li>Thomas Clement Douglas (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
<li>Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté (<span>D. Mus.</span>)</li>
<li>Paul Henrik Thorbjorn Thorlakson (<span>D. Sc.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 1970 -->
<h2>1969</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 1969">
<li>Samuel Bronfman (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
<li>J. W. Grant MacEwan (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
<li>Christopher Riley (<span>D. Sc.</span>)</li>
<li>W. L. Wright (<span>D. Mus.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 1969 -->
<h2>1968</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 1968">
<li>Stuart Criddle (<span>D. Sc.</span>)</li>
<li>Maurice F. Strong (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 1968 -->
<h2>1967</h2>
<ul class="recipient-list 1967">
<li>Dr. W. G. Bigelow (<span>D. Sc.</span>)</li>
<li>Douglas L. Campbell (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
<li>Milton C. Holden (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
<li>Dr. Stanley H. Knowles (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
<li>Rev. Dr. H. L. MacNeill (<span></span>)</li>
<li>Wilfred F. McGregor (<span>LL.D.</span>)</li>
</ul> <!-- end recipient-list 1967 -->
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