CNIB Honour Roll

The CNIB Honour Roll recognizes our dedicated supporters. They are central to our success by helping create a more inclusive Canada.

The CNIB Honour Roll includes past winners of the Arthur Napier Magill Distinguished Service Award, honourary members of CNIB appointed by CNIB’s board of directors and past board chairs. 

Past winners, Arthur Napier Magill Distinguished Service Award 

• 2017 – Dorothy Macnaughton, ON
• 2016 – Patricia Suvak, NL
• 2015 – Gerry Chevalier, AB
• 2014 – Margaret Thomson, NL
• 2013 – Frances Cutler, ON
• 2012 – Steve Arshinoff and the CNIB Eye Van Team, ON
• 2012 – Lily Walls (Special Lifetime Achievement), BC
• 2010 – Eugene Lechelt, BC
• 2009 – Donald Farrell, NB
• 2008 – Gary Homer, AB
• 2007 – Robert (Bob) Tate, NS
• 2006 – Glynn Spelliscy, BC
• 2005 – W.R. (Bob) Waugh, ON
• 2004 – Frank Verge, NL
• 2003 – Graham Stoodley, ON
• 2003 – Denis White, ON
• 2002 – Jean Paul Losier, NB
• 2001 – Ben Hochhausen, AB
• 2000 – Jean Henri Picard, QC
• 1999 – Walter and Phyllis Gretzky, ON
• 1998 – Tim Sheeres, ON
• 1997 – Donald D. Ross, MB
• 1996 – Marion Davey, ON
• 1995 – Owen Dolan, BC
• 1994 – Harold Hatheway, NB
• 1993 – Dayton Forman, National/Library
• 1992 – Darleen Bogart, National/Library
• 1991 – R.W. Smith, MB
• 1990 – Boyd McFetridge, AB
• 1989 – Peggy Thompson, NS
• 1988 – Alfred J. Elliot, BC
• 1987 – Georgette Cantin, QC
• 1986 – Joseph Bembridge, SK
• 1985 – Dudley Mendels, QC
• 1984 – Mr. & Mrs. Elder, AB
• 1983 – Jean Parker, ON
• 1982 – Davis S. Lloyd, ON
• 1981 – Ralph Misener, ON
• 1980 – Muriel Howell, NL
• 1979 – Alex Saunders, ON
• 1978 – Sadie Bending, ON
• 1977 – Johnstone A. Weber, AB
• 1976 – Marjorie McGuffin Wood, BC

Honorary members

• Jean-Paul Losier, NB
• Barbara Aldous, MB
• Walter Gretzky, ON
• Rick Andrews, ON
• Charles Randolf Bell, NL
• Frank Clegg, ON
• J. N. Martin, SK
• Harry H. Dahlem, SK
• Norm Stewart Watson, ON
• Lawrence B. Switzer, SK
• Darleen Bogart, ON
• E. (Ben) Hochhausen, AB
• Robert Gene Griffith, SK
• Clinton Swanson, SK
• F. Ross Bearman, SK
• Gérald R. Tremblay, QC
• Ronald J. Kruzeniski, SK
• R. A. G. MacNab, NL
• Robert J. Flinn, NS
• Fred A. Walsh, NS
• Wayne Beaton, PE
• John B Clements, ON
• Marion N. J. Davey, ON
• Iona V. Campagnolo, BC
• Donald H. Farrell, NB
• Jacqueline St-Denis, QC
• John Magill, ON
• Lisette Gagnon, QC
• Khalil Rehman, SK
• Antonina Boyko, ON
• Allan Taylor, ON
• Audrey Murphy, ON
• Nancy Jean Wood, ON
• W. Earle McLaughlin, QC
• Robert S Tate, NS
• F. A. McKinnon, SK
• Don Suchla, BC
• R. Barry Graham, ON
• William D. Heintzman, ON
• Wolfe D. Goodman, ON
• W. Robert Waugh, ON
• Jack Carmichael, SK
• John J. Grossman, SK
• Walter J. Cripps, SK
• Hartland De M. Molson, QC
• Jean Scott, BC
• Gerry St-Denis, QC
• Jack D. Fraser, SK
• Barnett J. Danson, ON
• Peggy Thompson, NS
• Robert G. Murray, SK
• Robert Madill, ON
• Owen Dolan, BC

Past chairs, CNIB board of directors

• 2014-2016 – John Matheson
• 2011-2014 – Jane Beaumont
• 2007-2011 – Al Jameson
• 2003-2007 – Richard (Dick) Hale-Sanders
• 2000-2003 – Frances Cutler
• 1995-2000 – Gary Homer
• 1992-1995 – Robert Waugh
• 1987-1992 – Tim Sheeres
• 1982-1987 – John Baker
• 1979-1982 – Richard (Dick) Smith
• 1977-1979 – David Stanley
• 1973-1977 – George Beck
• 1966-1973 – George Thompson
• 1963-1965 – Frank G.J. McDonagh
• 1958-1963 – Ralph S. Misener
• 1954-1957 – Lady Virginia Kemp
• 1918-1954 – Lewis Miller Wood
• 1918 – Charles Rae Dickson