Honourary Members
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