Year |
Speaker |
2021 |
Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic |
2020 |
Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic |
2019 |
Terry MacLeod
Former CBC Radio personality
“It's a bird of a day - my life at CBC” |
2018 |
Gary Doer
Former Premier of Manitoba and Former Canadian Ambassador to the United States |
2017 |
Bruce Tascona
Military Historian
“Camp Hughes - The War Years, 1914-1916” |
2016 |
Jennifer Ditchburn
Journalist
“The History of Women in the Parliamentary Press Gallery & Women in Federal Politics Today” |
2015 |
Richard Gwyn Author, Historian
“Sir John A. Macdonald, The Man Who Made Us” |
2014 |
John Einarson Musician, Educator, Historian “Preserving Manitoba’s Music Heritage” |
2013 |
Morris Mott Hockey Player, Professor (Brandon University)
“Before the Jets: The People and Problems of Pro Hockey in Manitoba, 1906-1972” |
2012 |
Sylvia Kuzyk Broadcaster |
2011 |
Ken McGoogan Author |
2010 |
Jerry Gray Professor (University of Manitoba) |
2009 |
Alan Latourelle Parks Canada |
2008 |
Roland Penner Lawyer, Professor (University of Manitoba), Author |
2007 |
Margaret Sweatman Author |
2006 |
Mike Ford Musician |
2005 |
John Turner Prime Minister of Canada |
2004 |
Jake MacDonald Author |
2003 |
Calvin Murray Sinclair Lawyer, Judge, Senator |
2002 |
Jamie Brown CEO, Frantic Films |
2001 |
Mel Hurtig Publisher |
2000 |
Rex Murphy Broadcaster |
1999 |
Phil Fontaine Indigenous Leader |
1998 |
John Crosbie Politician |
1997 |
Stan MacKay Cleric |
1996 |
John Maxwell “Jack” Bowman (1925-2005) Physician & Medical Researcher |
1995 |
Pearl McGonigal Journalist, Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba |
1994 |
Henry Edmison “Harry” Duckworth (1915-2008) Educator, Administrator |
1993 |
Israel Harold Asper (1932-2003) Politician, Businessman |
1992 |
Bryan Schwartz Law Professor (University of Manitoba) |
1991 |
Gerald A. Friesen Historian (University of Manitoba) |
1990 |
Leo Pettipas Archeologist |
1989 |
Jennifer Brown Historian (University of Winnipeg) |
1988 |
John C. Lehr Geographer (University of Winnipeg) |
1987 |
Tim Ball Geographer (University of Winnipeg) |
1986 |
Douglas Lloyd Campbell (1895-1995)
Premier of Manitoba |
1985 |
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1984 |
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1983 |
Robert DuVal Guy (1912-1985) Lawyer, Judge |
1982 |
Jim Coleman Journalist |
1981 |
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1980 |
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1979 |
Gerald Mercier Attorney-General of Manitoba |
1978 |
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1977 |
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1976 |
Peter B. Waite Historian |
1975 |
Cornelius J. Jaenen Historian Ethnic Factors in Canadian History |
1974 |
William Lewis Morton (1908-1980) Historian |
1973 |
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1972 |
John Henry Warkentin Historical Geographer |
1971 |
James Henry Gray (1906-1998) Journalist, Historian |
1970 |
James Maurice Stockford Careless (1919-2009) Historian, Biographer
“George Brown and Confederation” |
1969 |
John G. Diefenbaker (1895-1979)
Prime Minister of Canada
“Sir John A. Macdonald” |
1968 |
Dufferin Roblin (1917-2010)
Premier of Manitoba
“Confederation in Perspective” |
1967 |
Donald G. Creighton (1902-1979)
Historian
“John A. Macdonald, Confederation and the Canadian West” |
1966 |
Testimonial for William Lewis Morton (1908-1980) |