The prestigious 4-H Canada Honourary Membership recognizes individuals who have embodied 4-H Canada values through their life and have delivered outstanding services to one or more levels of the organization.

The recognition was created in 1950 to recognize individuals who have made outstanding contributions to 4-H in Canada. Honourary Members are nominated by Members of 4-H Canada and approved by the Board of Directors.

4-H Canada Honourary Members

1950

R.S. Duncan, N.C. MacKay, R.S. Hamer, Dr. W. V. Longley, W.J.W. Lennox, S.E. Todd, John Tucker, D.M. Johnson, G.H. Clark, F.W. Walsh, S.J. Changnon, F.M. Morton, Dr. J.B. Munro, W.A. Brown

1955

Alex MacLaurin

1958

R. Gordon Bennett

1959

Frank E. Wolff

1964

Charles A. Douglas

1968

John E. McArthur, Raymond P. Frey

1971

Thomas McBeath

1973

Thomas P. Devlin

1974

Gordon Nixon

1975

Frank Binnie

1977

David Barrie, Miriam Barrie, Jean Scott

1979

Isabel Percival

1982

Henri Caron

1985

Don Wales

1986

Dr. Florence O’Neill Hutchison, Dr. Echo Lidster

1987

Stanley Wood

1988

Gordon Muirhead

1990

Jack Redden

1995

Donald C. Matthews, C. Les Usher

1997

Clint Whetter, Melva Hornbrook

1998

Joy Palmer, Alice McKay

2000

William Fulton, George Arnold, Lucy Duke

2001

Dick Huggard, David M. Adams

2002

John Flintoft

2003

Cathy Wilson Pinkney, Jack Gilliland

2004

Shaunda Rossington, Brian Little

2005

Ruth Thoen, Ted Youck

2006

Bob Boulton

2009

Gordon Bryant, John J. MacDonald, Gary Skogberg

2010

Lois James

2011

Elizabeth Crouse, Marie Logan

2013

Dori Gingera-Beauchemin, Marguerite Stark, Bertram Stewart

2014

Morley Handford

2015

E. Ward Jones (awarded posthumously)

2016

Rob Black

2017

Lyndon Carlson, Linda Porter

2018

Kevin Charlebois

2019

Carm Hamilton, Kim McConnell

2020

Duane Bristow, Nancy Orr

2021

Dawn Krinke

2022

Shirley Barnable

2023

Kim Beilby
Mary-Ann Carson