• Source: Order of British Columbia

      • The Order of British Columbia (French: Ordre de la Colombie-Britannique) is a civilian honour for merit in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Instituted in 1989 by Lieutenant Governor David Lam, on the advice of the Cabinet under Premier Bill Vander Zalm, the order is administered by the Governor-in-Council and is intended to honour current or former British Columbia residents for conspicuous achievements in any field, being thus described as the highest honour amongst all others conferred by the British Columbia Crown.


      Structure and appointment


      The Order of British Columbia, which evolved out of and replaced the earlier Order of the Dogwood, is intended to honour any current or former longtime resident of British Columbia who has demonstrated a high level of individual excellence and achievement in any field, demonstrating the "greatest distinction and excell[ence] in any field of endeavour benefiting the people of the Province or elsewhere." Only those who are elected or appointed members of a governmental body are ineligible as long as they hold office. There are no limits on how many can belong to the order or be inducted at one time.
      The process of finding qualified individuals begins with submissions from the public to the Order of British Columbia's advisory council, which consists of the Chief Justice of British Columbia, who serves as the Chair; the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly; a president, in turn, of one of British Columbia's public universities, for a two-year term; the President of the Union of British Columbia Municipalities; the Deputy Minister of Intergovernmental Relations; and two Members of the order. This committee then meets once yearly to make its selected recommendations to the lieutenant governor. Posthumous nominations are not accepted, though an individual who dies after his or her name was submitted to the advisory council can still be retroactively made a Member of the Order of British Columbia. The lieutenant governor, ex officio a Member and the Chancellor of the Order of British Columbia, then makes all appointments into the fellowship's single grade of membership by an Order in Council that bears the viceroyal sign-manual and the Great Seal of the province; thereafter, the new Members are entitled to use the post-nominal letters OBC.


      Insignia



      Upon admission into the Order of British Columbia, in a ceremony held at Government House in Victoria, new Members are presented with the order's insignia. The main badge consists of a gold medallion in the form of a stylized flower of the Pacific Dogwood—the official provincial flower—with the obverse in white enamel with gold edging, and bearing at its centre the escutcheon of the arms of British Columbia, all surmounted by a St. Edward's Crown symbolizing the Canadian monarch's role as the fount of honour. The ribbon is patterned with vertical stripes in green, white, blue, and gold, reflecting the colours within the provincial coat of arms; men wear the medallion suspended from this ribbon at the collar, while women carry theirs on a ribbon bow at the left chest. Members will also receive for wear on casual clothing a lapel pin, appearing as a smaller enamel Dogwood flower capped by a crown.


      Inductees


      Past appointments include:

      Bryan Guy Adams , Grammy Award winning musician and photographer, appointed 1990
      Unity Bainbridge, artist and poet, appointed 1993
      Michael Conway Baker , composer, appointed 1997
      Geoffrey Ballard , geophysicist and businessman, appointed 2003
      Dave Barrett , BC's first NDP Premier, appointed 2012
      Brigadier Henry Pybus Bell-Irving , Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia, appointed 1990
      Leon Bibb, musician and actor, appointed 2009
      Peter M. Brown , financier, appointed 2003
      Frank Arthur Calder , first aboriginal Canadian elected to any Canadian legislature, appointed 2004
      Gordon Campbell , three-term Premier of British Columbia, appointed 2011
      Raffi Cavoukian , children's entertainer, appointed 2001
      Shushma Datt, Radio and television broadcaster, appointed 1992
      Frankie Edroff , philanthropist, appointed 2010
      Sam Feldman , music executive, appointed 2023
      Lance Finch , former Chief Justice of British Columbia, appointed 2017
      Lori Fung Methorst , Olympic gymnast, appointed 1990
      Garde Basil Gardom , Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia, appointed 2002
      Paul George , Environmentalist, appointed 2020
      Gordon Gibson , politician, columnist, and author, appointed 2008
      Gurdev Singh Gill, , Physician, appointed 1990
      Nancy Catherine Greene , Senator and Olympic alpine skier, appointed 2004
      Richard M. Hansen , paraplegic athlete and activist, appointed 1990
      Walter Hardwick , teacher and deputy minister of education, appointed 1997
      Tara Singh Hayer , Indo Canadian Newspaper publisher, appointed 1995
      Bonnie Henry , Provincial Health Officer, appointed 2021
      Bob Hindmarch Professor and ice hockey coach, appointed 2010
      Edward John Hughes , artist, appointed 2005
      Robert Joseph, OBC, Hereditary Chief of the Gwawaenuk First Nation, and Ambassador for Reconciliation Canada, appointed 2015
      Douglas Jung , first Chinese Canadian federal Member of Parliament, appointed 1997
      Edgar Kaiser Jr.
      Kathy Kinloch, businesswoman, appointed 2022
      Mary Kitagawa , educator, appointed 2018
      Joy Kogawa , author and poet, appointed 2006
      Diana Jean Krall , jazz musician, appointed 2000
      David Foster OC OBC, Grammy Award winning musician and record executive, appointed 1995
      David Lam, , Lieutenant-Governor of BC, appointed 1995
      Peter Anthony Larkin , fisheries scientist, appointed 1996
      Robert H. Lee , real estate executive and philanthropist, appointed 1990
      Robert Italo Lenarduzzi , coach of Canadian Olympic and national soccer teams, appointed 2005
      Trevor Linden , professional hockey player, appointed 2003
      Clarence Louie , Chief of the Osoyoos Indian Band, appointed 2004
      Sarah Ann McLachlan , musician, singer, and songwriter, appointed 2001
      Kenneth McVay , internet activist, appointed 1995
      James Mavor Moore , writer, producer, critic, and educator, appointed 1999
      Stephen John Nash , National Basketball Association player, appointed 2006
      Wally Oppal , former Attorney General of British Columbia and Justice of British Columbia Court of Appeal, appointed 2017
      Sophie Pierre , Chief of St. Mary's Indian Band and commissioner for the BC Treaty Commission, appointed 1994
      Derek Porter-Nesbitt , Olympic rower, appointed 1996
      Ryan Reynolds , actor and producer, appointed 2023
      Christopher Duncan Rose , teacher, school principal and school trustee, founder of the Chris Rose Therapy Centre for Autism, appointed 2010
      Martin Schechter , HIV/AIDS scientist, appointed 1994
      Ernest Alvia Smith , last living Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, appointed 2002
      Michael Smith , UBC scientist and BC's first Nobel Prize winner, appointed 1994
      Arran Stephens , co-founder of Nature's Path and philanthropist, appointed 2022
      Ratana Stephens , co-founder of Nature's Path and philanthropist, appointed 2022
      Neil J. Sterritt, Gitxsan activist and author, appointed 2017
      David Takayoshi Suzuki , environmentalist and science broadcaster, appointed 1995
      Tamara Taggart, former Canadian news anchor, appointed 2015
      Susan Tatoosh, Indigenous leader, appointed 2019
      Arthur Vickers (artist) , artist, storyteller and philanthropist, appointed 2008
      Tamara Vrooman, businesswoman
      Peter Wing , first mayor of Chinese descent in North America, appointed 1990


      = Rescinded

      =
      David Sidoo, CFL player, philanthropist, criminal (appointed in 2016; rescinded in 2020)


      See also


      Canadian order of precedence (decorations and medals)
      Symbols of British Columbia
      State decoration


      References




      External links



      Official website

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