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Media Advisory: Governor General to Invest 44 Recipients Into the Order of Canada

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OFFICERS OF THE ORDER OF CANADA

----------------------------------------------------------------------------Robert Bertram, O.C.                          Aurora, Ont.----------------------------------------------------------------------------The Honourable Sheila Copps, P.C., O.C.       Ottawa, Ont.----------------------------------------------------------------------------Francine Decary, O.C., O.Q.                   Montreal, Que.----------------------------------------------------------------------------The Honourable Kenneth (Ken) Wayne Dryden,    Toronto, Ont.P.C., O.C.----------------------------------------------------------------------------Angele Dubeau, O.C., C.Q.                     Montreal, Que.This is a promotion within the Order.----------------------------------------------------------------------------Colonel John Alan Gardam, O.C., O.M.M.,       Ottawa, Ont.M.S.M., C.D. (Ret'd)----------------------------------------------------------------------------Prabhat Jha, O.C.                             Toronto, Ont.----------------------------------------------------------------------------Bonnie Sherr Klein, O.C.                      Vancouver, B.C.----------------------------------------------------------------------------Michel Lemieux, O.C.                          Montreal, Que.----------------------------------------------------------------------------Roderick Alexander Macdonald, O.C.            Montreal, Que.----------------------------------------------------------------------------M. G. Venkatesh Mannar, O.C                   Ottawa, Ont.----------------------------------------------------------------------------Victor Pilon, O.C., R.V.M.                    Montreal, Que.----------------------------------------------------------------------------Sharon Pollock, O.C.                          Calgary, Alta.----------------------------------------------------------------------------Donald Ross, O.C.                             Toronto, Ont.----------------------------------------------------------------------------John D. Ross, O.C                             Iroquois, Ont.----------------------------------------------------------------------------Louise Roy, O.C., O.Q.                        Montreal, Que.----------------------------------------------------------------------------Daniele Sauvageau, O.C., M.S.C.               Deux-Montagnes, Que.----------------------------------------------------------------------------Ronald P. Schlegel, O.C                       Ayr, Ont.----------------------------------------------------------------------------


COMPANION OF THE ORDER OF CANADA

----------------------------------------------------------------------------The Honourable Louise Charron, C.C.           Ottawa, Ont.----------------------------------------------------------------------------


RECIPIENTS' CITATIONS

MEMBERS OF THE ORDER OF CANADA

Dyane Adam, C.M.

Saint-Francois-de-l'Ile-d'Orleans, Quebec

Dyane Adam has helped to strengthen Canada's social fabric. A psychologist by profession and principal of Glendon College at York University, she was responsible for maintaining the institution's bilingual mission. She then became the first woman and Franco-Ontarian to serve as commissioner of official languages, protecting and promoting linguistic duality across Canada. She also channelled her passion into advancing the status of women as founding president of the Collectif des femmes francophones du Nord-Est ontarien pour l'avancement de l'education.

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