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The National Order of Quebec, known officially by its French
French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
 name Ordre national du Québec and also called simply the Order of Quebec, is an order of merit bestowed by the Government of Quebec
Quebec

Quebec , in French language, Qu?bec , is a Provinces and territories of Canada in the Central Canada and Eastern Canada regions of Canada....
. It was instituted on June 20, 1984, by Lieutenant Governor
Lieutenant Governor of Quebec

The Lieutenant Governor of Quebec is the viceroy representative of the Monarchy in Canada in the province of Quebec. The role of the Lieutenant-Governor is to carry out the constitutional and ceremonial duties of the monarch in the Provinces and territories of Canada....
 Jean-Pierre Côté
Jean-Pierre Côté

Joseph Julien Jean-Pierre C?t?, Queen's Privy Council for Canada, Order of Canada was a Canada parliamentarian and Lieutenant Governor of Quebec....
 on the advice of the Cabinet of Premier
Premier of Quebec

The Premier of Quebec is the first minister of the Canada Provinces of Canada of Quebec. The Premier is the province's head of government and his title is Premier and President of the Executive Council....
 René Lévesque
René Lévesque

Ren? L?vesque was a reporter, a Political minister of the government of Quebec, Canada , the founder of the Parti Qu?b?cois political party, and 23rd Premier of Quebec ....
. It is one of the most prestigious honours in Quebec and in French America
French America

French America is the French language community of person and diaspora, notably those tracing back origins to New France, the early French colonization of the Americas of the Americas....
.

order is awarded in three classes, with applicable post-nominal letters
Post-nominal letters

Post-nominal letters, also called post-nominal initials or post-nominal titles, are letters placed after the name of a person to indicate that the individual holds a position, educational degree, accreditation, office, or honour....
 for recipients:



Unlike other provincial honours, the Lieutenant Governor is not an explicit part of the order, though it was created by the vice-regal
Viceroy

A viceroy is a royal official who governs a country or province in the name of and as representative of the monarch. The term derives from the Latin prefix vice-, meaning "in the place of" and the French word roi, meaning king....
 granting of Royal Assent
Royal Assent

The granting of Royal Assent is the formal method by which a constitutional monarchy completes the legislative process of lawmaking by formally assenting to an Act of Parliament....
, and the order is not presented in the name of the Crown in Right of Quebec
Monarchy in Quebec

The Monarchy in Quebec is the constitutional system of government in which a hereditary monarch is the Sovereignty and head of state of the Canada Provinces and territories of Canada of Quebec, forming the core of the province's Westminster system Parliamentary system democracy....
, but rather by the government, which consists of the Lieutenant Governor in Council
Queen-in-Council

The Queen in Council is the technical term of constitutional law that refers to the exercise of executive authority in each of the Commonwealth realms....
.

The order is conferred upon men and women born or living in Quebec (but non-Quebecers can be inducted as well) for their outstanding achievements.






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The National Order of Quebec, known officially by its French
French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
 name Ordre national du Québec and also called simply the Order of Quebec, is an order of merit bestowed by the Government of Quebec
Quebec

Quebec , in French language, Qu?bec , is a Provinces and territories of Canada in the Central Canada and Eastern Canada regions of Canada....
. It was instituted on June 20, 1984, by Lieutenant Governor
Lieutenant Governor of Quebec

The Lieutenant Governor of Quebec is the viceroy representative of the Monarchy in Canada in the province of Quebec. The role of the Lieutenant-Governor is to carry out the constitutional and ceremonial duties of the monarch in the Provinces and territories of Canada....
 Jean-Pierre Côté
Jean-Pierre Côté

Joseph Julien Jean-Pierre C?t?, Queen's Privy Council for Canada, Order of Canada was a Canada parliamentarian and Lieutenant Governor of Quebec....
 on the advice of the Cabinet of Premier
Premier of Quebec

The Premier of Quebec is the first minister of the Canada Provinces of Canada of Quebec. The Premier is the province's head of government and his title is Premier and President of the Executive Council....
 René Lévesque
René Lévesque

Ren? L?vesque was a reporter, a Political minister of the government of Quebec, Canada , the founder of the Parti Qu?b?cois political party, and 23rd Premier of Quebec ....
. It is one of the most prestigious honours in Quebec and in French America
French America

French America is the French language community of person and diaspora, notably those tracing back origins to New France, the early French colonization of the Americas of the Americas....
.

Description

The order is awarded in three classes, with applicable post-nominal letters
Post-nominal letters

Post-nominal letters, also called post-nominal initials or post-nominal titles, are letters placed after the name of a person to indicate that the individual holds a position, educational degree, accreditation, office, or honour....
 for recipients:

  • Grand Officer (grand officier) (G.O.Q.)
  • Officer (officier) (O.Q.)
  • Knight (chevalier) (C.Q.)


Unlike other provincial honours, the Lieutenant Governor is not an explicit part of the order, though it was created by the vice-regal
Viceroy

A viceroy is a royal official who governs a country or province in the name of and as representative of the monarch. The term derives from the Latin prefix vice-, meaning "in the place of" and the French word roi, meaning king....
 granting of Royal Assent
Royal Assent

The granting of Royal Assent is the formal method by which a constitutional monarchy completes the legislative process of lawmaking by formally assenting to an Act of Parliament....
, and the order is not presented in the name of the Crown in Right of Quebec
Monarchy in Quebec

The Monarchy in Quebec is the constitutional system of government in which a hereditary monarch is the Sovereignty and head of state of the Canada Provinces and territories of Canada of Quebec, forming the core of the province's Westminster system Parliamentary system democracy....
, but rather by the government, which consists of the Lieutenant Governor in Council
Queen-in-Council

The Queen in Council is the technical term of constitutional law that refers to the exercise of executive authority in each of the Commonwealth realms....
.

The order is conferred upon men and women born or living in Quebec (but non-Quebecers can be inducted as well) for their outstanding achievements. The law states that nominations may also be made posthumously. The law also grants the Premier of Quebec the exclusive privilege of nominating non-Quebecers. Non-Quebecers inducted into the order are often honoured for a loyal friendship to Quebec, helping to increase its international profile, or for defending the French language.

The insignia are delivered during ceremonies at the Salon Rouge
Legislative Council of Quebec

From 1867 until 1968, the Legislative Council of Quebec was the unelected upper house of the bicameral legislature in the Canada province of Quebec....
 in the parliament building, the former home of the Legislative Council of Quebec. Exceptions are made when inductees cannot be present (notably for some non-Quebec nominations).

In June 2008 Jean Charest
Jean Charest

John James Charest, Queen's Privy Council of Canada, Member of the National Assembly is a Canadian lawyer and politician from the provinces and territories of Canada of Quebec....
 named all Premiers (excluding himself) who have served since the creation of the Order to the rank of Grand Officer. In the case of Levesque and Bourassa this title was received posthumously.

Council

The Council of the National Order of Quebec (Conseil de l'Ordre national du Québec), elected by and amongst the members of the order, is mandated to short-list candidates based on the results of calls for nomination published in daily and weekly newspaper
Newspaper

A newspaper is a publication containing news, information and advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called newsprint. General-interest newspapers often feature articles on Politics, crime, business, art/entertainment, society and sports....
s in Quebec. The Council's suggestions are given to the Premier, who submits them to Cabinet for final approval by the viceroy.

Recipients

Many people have been inducted into the order since its inception. The following are some of the best-known recipients.

Quebec inductees


Grand Officer
  • Jean Victor Allard
    Jean Victor Allard

    Canadian Forces ranks and insignia Jean Victor Allard, Order of Canada, Order of the British Empire, National Order of Quebec, Distinguished Service Order, Canadian Efficiency Decoration, Canadian Forces Decoration was the first French-Canadian to become Chief of the Defence Staff, the highest position in the Canadian Forces from 1966?1969....
     (1985), Chief of the Defence Staff of the Canadian Forces
    Canadian Forces

    The Canadian Forces , officially the Canadian Armed Forces , are the unified armed forces of Canada, as constituted by the National Defence Act, which states: "The Canadian Forces are the armed forces of Her Majesty raised by Canada and consist of one Service called the Canadian Armed Forces." This singular institution consists of thre...
  • Lucien Bouchard
    Lucien Bouchard

    Lucien Bouchard, Queen's Privy Council for Canada, National Order of Quebec is a Canadian lawyer, diplomat and politician. He was the Leader of the Opposition in the Canadian House of Commons from 1993 to 1996, and Premier of Quebec from January 29, 1996 to March 8, 2001....
     (2008), 27th Premier of Quebec (1996-2001)
  • Robert Bourassa
    Robert Bourassa

    Robert Bourassa, National Order of Quebec was a politician in Quebec, Canada. He served as Quebec Liberal Party Premier of Quebec in two different mandates, first from May 12, 1970, to November 25, 1976, and then from December 12, 1985, to January 11, 1994....
     (2008; posthumous), 22nd Premier of Quebec (1970-6, 1985-94)
  • Leonard Cohen
    Leonard Cohen

    Leonard Norman Cohen, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec is a Canadian singer, songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963....
     (2008), singer-songwriter
  • Jean Drapeau
    Jean Drapeau

    Jean Drapeau, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec was a Canada lawyer and politician who served as mayor of Montreal from 1954 to 1957 and 1960 to 1986....
     (1987), mayor of Montreal
  • Marcelle Ferron
    Marcelle Ferron

    Marcelle Ferron, National Order of Quebec , a Qu?b?coise painting and stained glass artist, was a major figure in the Quebec contemporary art scene....
     (1992), painter and stained glass artist
  • Armand Frappier
    Armand Frappier

    Armand Frappier, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec was a physician, microbiologist and expert on tuberculosis from Quebec, Canada.Born in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec, the son of Arthur-Alexis Frappier and Bernadette Codebecq, his mother died in 1923 from tuberculosis....
     (1985), researcher
  • Gérard Filion
    Gérard Filion

    G?rard Filion, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec was a Canada businessman and journalist.Born in L'Isle-Verte, Quebec, the youngest of 17 children, he received a Bachelor of Arts from Universit? Laval in 1931 and a diploma in 1934 from ?cole des Hautes ?tudes Commerciales de Montr?al....
     (1989), newspaper director
  • Daniel Johnson, Jr. (2008), 25th Premier of Quebec (1994)
  • Pierre-Marc Johnson
    Pierre-Marc Johnson

    Pierre-Marc Johnson, National Order of Quebec is a Quebec lawyer, physician and politician. He was the Parti Qu?b?cois Premier of Quebec from October 3 to December 12, 1985....
     (2008), 24th Premier of Quebec (1985)
  • Paul Gérin-Lajoie
    Paul Gérin-Lajoie

    Paul G?rin-Lajoie, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec, Queen's Counsel is a Canada lawyer, philanthropist, and a former member of the National Assembly of Quebec and Executive Council of Quebec....
     (Officer in 1987, promoted to Grand Officer in 1998)
  • Phyllis Lambert
    Phyllis Lambert

    Phyllis Barbara Lambert, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, Royal Society of Canada, Royal Canadian Academy of Arts is a Canada philanthopist and member of the Bronfman family....
    , architect
  • Bernard Landry
    Bernard Landry

    Jean-Bernard Landry, National Order of Quebec is a Quebec lawyer, teacher, politician, who served as Premier of Quebec, Canada, , List of Quebec leaders of the Opposition and leader of the Parti Qu?b?cois ....
     (2008), 28th Premier of Quebec (2001-3)
  • Félix Leclerc
    Félix Leclerc

    F?lix Leclerc, Order of Canada National Order of Quebec was a French-Canadian folk song, poet, writer, actor and Qu?b?cois political activist....
     (1985), singer-songwriter
  • Jean-Paul Lemieux (1997, posthumously)
  • René Lévesque
    René Lévesque

    Ren? L?vesque was a reporter, a Political minister of the government of Quebec, Canada , the founder of the Parti Qu?b?cois political party, and 23rd Premier of Quebec ....
     (2008; posthumous), 23rd Premier of Quebec (1976-85)
  • Brian Mulroney
    Brian Mulroney

    Martin Brian Mulroney, Queen's Privy Council for Canada, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec was the List of Prime Ministers of Canada Prime Minister of Canada from September 17, 1984, to June 25, 1993 and was leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada from 1983 to 1993....
     (2002), 18th Prime Minister of Canada
  • Gérard Parizeau (1991), insurer, historian
  • Jacques Parizeau
    Jacques Parizeau

    Jacques Parizeau, National Order of Quebec is an economist and noted Quebec sovereignist who served as Premier of Quebec of Quebec, Canada, from September 26, 1994 to January 29, 1996....
     (2008), 26th Premier of Quebec (1994-6)
  • Jean-Paul Riopelle
    Jean-Paul Riopelle

    Jean-Paul Riopelle, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec was a Painting and sculpture from Quebec, Canada.Born in Montreal, he studied under Paul-?mile Borduas in the 1940s and was a member of Les Automatistes movement....
     (Officer in 1988, promoted to Grand Officer in 1994), painter
  • Jean Vanier
    Jean Vanier

    Jean Vanier, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec is the founder of L'Arche, an international organization which creates communities where people with developmental disabilities and those who assist them share life together....
     philanthropist, theologian, founder of L'Arche
    L'Arche

    L'Arche is an private voluntary organization of faith-based communities centered around people who have developmental disabilities . L'Arche communities typically include homes and day programs....
  • Gilles Vigneault
    Gilles Vigneault

    Gilles Vigneault, National Order of Quebec is a Qu?b?cois poet, publisher and singer-songwriter, and well-known Quebec nationalism and Quebec sovereigntism....
     (Knight in 1985, promoted to Grand Officer in 2000), singer-songwriter


Officer
  • Laurent Beaudoin
    Laurent Beaudoin

    Laurent Beaudoin, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec, FCA is a Canada businessman.Born in in Laurier-Station, Quebec, Quebec, the son-in-law of Joseph Armand Bombardier, Beaudoin joined Bombardier Limited in 1963....
     (1990), businessman
  • Francesco Bellini
    Francesco Bellini (businessman)

    Francesco Bellini, Order of Canada is research scientist, Administration , entrepreneur and Quebecer business man born in Italy, at Ascoli Piceno, in 1947....
     (2004), research scientist, administrator, entrepreneur, and businessman
  • Michel Brault
    Michel Brault

    Michel Brault, National Order of Quebec is a Quebec cinematographer, cameraman, film director, screenwriter and film producer. He is a leading figure of Direct Cinema and cin?ma v?rit? which were characteristic of the French language half of the National Film Board of Canada in the 1960s....
     (2003), film-maker
  • Solange Chaput-Rolland
    Solange Chaput-Rolland

    Solange Chaput-Rolland, National Order of Quebec was a Canada journalist, author, lecturer, politician, and Senate of Canada.Born in Montreal, the daughter of ?mile Chaput and Rosalie Loranger, she received her education from the Couvent d'Outremont, the University of Paris and the Institut Catholique de Paris....
     (1985)
  • Jean Coutu
    Jean Coutu (pharmacist)

    Jean Coutu, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec is a Canada pharmacist and businessman. He is the founder of the Jean Coutu Group which he started in 1969....
     (1993), businessman
  • Bernard Derome
    Bernard Derome

    Bernard Derome, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec is a news anchor for T?l?vision de Radio-Canada, who anchored the weeknight editions of Le T?l?journal until December 18, 2008....
     (2006), news anchor
  • Céline Dion
    Celine Dion

    C?line Marie Claudette Dion Order of Canada National Order of Quebec is a Canadian singer-songwriter and actor. Born to a large, impoverished family, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband Ren? Ang?lil mortgaged his home to finance her first record....
     (1998), singer
  • Léon Dion
    Léon Dion

    L?on Dion, National Order of Quebec was a Quebec Political science.Dion was born in Saint-Ars?ne de Rivi?re-du-Loup. He founded the department of political science at Universit? Laval with G?rard Bergeron and Maurice Tremblay in 1954....
     (1990), author, teacher, intellectual
  • Fernand Dumont (1992), author, intellectual
  • Phil Gold
    Phil Gold

    Phil Gold, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec, Royal Society of Canada, FRCPC, American College of Physicians is a Canada physician, scientist, and professor....
     (1989), scientist, physician
  • Denise Filiatrault
    Denise Filiatrault

    Denise Filiatrault, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec is a Canada actress and director.In 3rd Genie Awards, she won a "Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role" Genie Award for her performance in Les Plouffe....
     (2000), playwright, actor
  • Anne Hébert
    Anne Hébert

    Anne H?bert, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec of Sainte-Catherine-de-Fossambault, Quebec was a Canada author and poet. H?bert's "Les Songes en ?guilabre", 1942, was her first collection of poems published....
     (1985), writer
  • Louis Laberge
    Louis Laberge

    Joseph L?o Louis Laberge, National Order of Quebec was a French Canadian Trade union leader. He was president of the F?d?ration des travailleurs du Qu?bec ....
     (1988), union leader
  • Robert Lepage
    Robert Lepage

    Robert Lepage, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec is a playwright, actor and film director from Quebec City, Quebec, and is one of Canada's most honoured theatre artists....
     (1999), playwright, film-maker
  • Jean-Louis Lévesque
    Jean-Louis Lévesque

    Jean-Louis L?vesque, Order of Canada was a Canadian entrepreneur, Thoroughbred horse race owner, and philanthropist.J. Louis L?vesque was born in Nouvelle, Quebec in Quebec Gasp? Peninsula to an Acadian father and an Irish mother....
     (1991), entrepreneur, philanthropist
  • Gaston Miron
    Gaston Miron

    Gaston Miron, National Order of Quebec was an important poetry, writer, and edition of the Quebec post Quiet Revolution. His masterpiece, L'homme rapaill? has sold over 100 000 copies, in Quebec and overseas, insuring Miron as one of the mostly read author of Literature of Quebec ....
     (1996), poet
  • Ted Moses
    Ted Moses

    Ted Moses, National Order of Quebec is a Cree politician from Eastmain, Quebec, a small remote village in northern Quebec, Canada. He is a former Grand Chief of the Crees ....
     (2002), aboriginal chief
  • Lise Payette
    Lise Payette

    Lise Payette, National Order of Quebec is a Quebec politician, feminist, writer and columnist. She was a Parti Qu?b?cois minister under the leadership of Premier Ren? L?vesque and National Assembly of Quebec member for the riding of Dorion ....
     (2001), politician, writer
  • Pierre Péladeau
    Pierre Péladeau

    Pierre P?ladeau, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec was a Qu?b?cois businessman. He was the founder of Quebecor Inc., a Canadian media company centered in the province of Quebec....
     (1989) businessman
  • Jean-Pierre Perreault (2004), choreographer
  • Pierre Perreault (1998), film-maker
  • Hubert Reeves
    Hubert Reeves

    Hubert Reeves, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec is a Canada astrophysics and popularizer of science. He has been a Director of Research at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique since 1965 and currently lives in France where he often speaks on television promoting science....
     (1994), astrophysicist
  • Maurice Richard
    Maurice Richard

    Joseph Henri Maurice "Rocket" Richard, Queen's Privy Council for Canada, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec was a professional ice hockey player who played for the Montreal Canadiens from 1942?43 NHL season to 1959?60 NHL season....
     (1985), hockey player
  • Jacques Villeneuve
    Jacques Villeneuve

    Jacques Joseph Charles Villeneuve, National Order of Quebec is a Canadian automobile racing driver. He is the son of Formula One driver Gilles Villeneuve, and is the namesake of his uncle ....
     (1998), racing driver


Knight
  • Denys Arcand
    Denys Arcand

    Georges-Henri Denys Arcand, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec is an Academy Awards-winning Canadian film director, screenwriter and Film producer....
     (1990), film-maker
  • Frédéric Back
    Frédéric Back

    Fr?d?ric Back, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec is an award-winning Canada animator.Born in Saarbr?cken, Germany, he emigrated to Canada in 1948....
     (1989), animator
  • Denise Bombardier
    Denise Bombardier

    Denise Bombardier is an esteemed yet controversial journalism, novelist, essayist, producer, and media personality who worked for the French-language television station Radio Canada for over 30 years....
     (2000), journalist
  • Gaétan Boucher
    Gaétan Boucher

    Ga?tan Boucher is a former Speed skating Olympic champion from Canada.A four-time Olympic medalist, Boucher was awarded the Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada's outstanding male athlete of 1984....
     (1985), speed skater
  • Pierre Bourque (1993), mayor of Montreal
  • Françoise David
    Françoise David

    Fran?oise David, National Order of Quebec is the spokesperson, with Amir Khadir, of Qu?bec solidaire - a left-wing politics, feminism and Quebec sovereignty movement political party in the province of Quebec, Canada....
     (1999), social and feminist activist
  • Yvon Deschamps
    Yvon Deschamps

    Yvon Deschamps is a Canada author, actor, comedian and producer best known for his monologues. His social-commentary-tinged humour propelled him to prominence in Quebec popular culture in the 1970s and 1980s....
     (2001), comedian
  • Jean Duceppe
    Jean Duceppe

    Jean Hotte-Duceppe was a stage and television actor from Quebec, Canada. He founded the Compagnie de th??tre Jean Duceppe in 1973.One of his sons is the Canadian politician and sovereigntist Gilles Duceppe, a supporter of the independence of Quebec from Canada and the current leader of the Bloc Qu?b?cois....
     (1985), actor
  • Diane Dufresne
    Diane Dufresne

    Diane Dufresne is a List of singers and List of painters, and has sung a number of classics of Quebec repertoire of popular songs.Dufresne lived in Paris from 1965 to 1967 where she studied voice with Jean Lumi?re and dramatic art with Fran?oise Rosay....
     (2002), singer, painter
  • Marc Favreau
    Marc Favreau

    Marc Favreau, Order of Canada , National Order of Quebec, was a Canadian television and film actor and poet.Favreau began his television career as a regular on La Bo?te ? surprise, a long running children's TV show on T?l?vision de Radio-Canada....
     (1995), actor
  • Jean-Pierre Ferland
    Jean-Pierre Ferland

    Jean-Pierre Ferland is a Canada singer and songwriter....
    , singer-songwriter
  • Madeleine Ferron
    Madeleine Ferron

    Madeleine Ferron is a Quebec writer.She began her early studies with the Sisters of Saint Anne, continuing at the Universit? de Montr?al and at Universit? Laval....
     (1992), writer
  • Eloïse Gallien-Fortin (2007), nursing student
  • Jacques Godbout
    Jacques Godbout

    Jacques Godbout is a Canada novelist, essayist, children's writer, journalist, filmmaker and poet. By his own admission a bit of a dabbler , Godbout has become one of the most important writers of his generation, with a major influence on post-1960 Quebec intellectual life....
     (1998), writer, film-maker
  • Marc-Andre Hamelin
    Marc-André Hamelin

    Marc-Andr? Hamelin, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec, is a French-Canadian pianist and composer.Born in Montreal, Quebec, Marc-Andr? Hamelin began his piano studies at the age of five and was nine years old when he won the top prize in a Canadian music competition....
    , pianist
  • Pauline Julien
    Pauline Julien

    Pauline Julien was a singer, songwriter, actress, Feminism activist and Quebec sovereigntism.Born in Trois-Rivi?res, Qu?bec, Julien was the companion of the poet and Qu?bec provincial Member of the Legislative Assembly G?rald Godin, another Trifluvian and sovereigntist....
     (1997), singer-songwriter
  • Marie-Claire Kirkland Casgrain (1985)
  • Jacques Lacoursière
    Jacques Lacoursière

    Jacques Lacoursi?re, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec is a French-speaking TV host, author and historian from Quebec, Canada....
     (2002), historian
  • Guy Lafleur
    Guy Lafleur

    Guy Damien Lafleur, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec, , is a former professional ice hockey player and is widely regarded as one of the most naturally gifted and popular players ever to play professional ice hockey....
     (2005), hockey player
  • Guy Laliberté
    Guy Laliberté

    Guy Lalibert? is the founder and chief executive officer of Cirque du Soleil. Starting out as an accordion player, stiltwalker and fire-eater; Lalibert? created his circus which is a synthesis of all circus styles around the world....
     (1997)
  • Claude Léveillé (1998), singer-songwriter
  • Raymond Lévesque (1997), singer-songwriter
  • Édouard Lock
    Édouard Lock

    ?douard Lock is a Canada dance choreographer and the founder of the Canada dance group, La La La Human Steps.?douard Lock immigrated to Canada as a young child, settling in Montreal with his parents....
     (2001), dancer
  • Louis Lortie
    Louis Lortie

    Louis Lortie Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec is a French-Canadian pianist.He is known for his interpretation of Maurice Ravel, Fr?d?ric Chopin and Ludwig van Beethoven....
     (1998), pianist
  • Norman McLaren
    Norman McLaren

    Norman McLaren, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec was a Scottish-born Canadian animator and film director known for his work for the National Film Board of Canada ....
     (1985), animator, film-maker
  • Pierre Nadeau (1992), journalist
  • Julie Payette
    Julie Payette

    Julie Payette is an astronaut with the Canadian Space Agency who currently works primarily with NASA. Payette is a French Canadian, who is fluent in English language....
     (2000), astronaut
  • Oscar Peterson
    Oscar Peterson

    Oscar Emmanuel Peterson, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec, Order of Ontario was a Canada jazz pianist and composer. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, "O.P." by his friends, and was a member of jazz royalty....
     (1991), jazz musician
  • Luc Plamondon
    Luc Plamondon

    Luc Plamondon is a French-Canadian lyricist....
     (1990), songwriter
  • Ghislain Picard (2003), aboriginal activist
  • Léa Roback (2000), feminist and socialist activist
  • Jean-Louis Roux
    Jean-Louis Roux

    Jean-Louis Roux, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec is a noted entertainer and playwright, senator, and briefly Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, Canada....
     (1989), actor
  • Michel Tremblay
    Michel Tremblay

    Michel Tremblay is a novelist and theatre.Tremblay grew up in the the Plateau, a French language neighbourhood of Montreal, at the time of his birth a neighbourhood with a working-class character and joual dialect, something that would heavily influence his work....
     (1991), playwright, author


Non-Quebec inductees


Grand Officer
  • Charles Dutoit
    Charles Dutoit

    Charles ?douard Dutoit is a Switzerland conducting, particularly noted for his interpretations of French and Russian 20th century music. He has made influential modern recordings of Hector Berlioz's Rom?o et Juliette and Maurice Ravel's ballets Daphnis et Chlo? and Ma M?re l'Oie....
     (1995), conductor


Officer
  • Raymond Barre
    Raymond Barre

    Raymond Octave Joseph Barre was a French centre-right politician and economist. He served as Prime Minister of France under Val?ry Giscard d'Estaing from 1976 until 1981....
     (1986), prime minister of France
    Prime Minister of France

    The Prime Minister of France in French Fifth Republic is the functional head of the government and French government ministers of France. The head of state in France is the President of the French Republic....
  • Jacques Chirac
    Jacques Chirac

    Jacques Ren? Chirac served as the President of France from 17 May 1995 until 16 May 2007. As President he also served as an ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra and Grand Master of the French L?gion d'honneur....
     (1987), former president of France (mayor of Paris at time of nomination)
  • Laurent Fabius
    Laurent Fabius

    Laurent Fabius is a former French Socialist Party List of Prime Ministers of France. He led the government from 17 July 1984 to 20 March 1986. He was 37 years old when he was appointed and is, so far, the youngest Prime Minister of the Fifth Republic....
     (1986), prime minister of France
  • Alain Juppé
    Alain Juppé

    Alain Marie Jupp? is a French right-wing politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 1995 to 1997, under President Jacques Chirac. In December 2004 Jupp? was convicted of mishandling public funds; his political career was subsequently suspended until he was re-elected as Mayor of Bordeaux in October 2006....
     (1996), prime minister of France
  • Jordi Pujol (1996), president of Catalonia
    Catalonia

    Catalonia , is an Autonomous Community in northeast Spain.Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km? and has an official population of 7,210,508. It borders France and Andorra to the north, Aragon to the west, the Valencian Community to the south, and the Mediterranean Sea to the east ....
  • Lionel Jospin
    Lionel Jospin

    Lionel Jospin is a French politics who served as Prime Minister of France, during the third "cohabitation ", under Jacques Chirac, from 1997 to 2002....
     (1998), prime minister of France
  • Antonine Maillet
    Antonine Maillet

    Antonine Maillet, Queen's Privy Council for Canada, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec, Order of New Brunswick, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada is a Canada Acadian novelist, playwright, and scholar....
     (1990), Acadian writer and playwright from New Brunswick
  • Alain Peyrefitte
    Alain Peyrefitte

    File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F017216-0004, Bonn, Erhard mit Informationsminister Frankreich.jpgAlain Peyrefitte was a France scholar and politician....
     (1998), French politician
  • Philippe Séguin
    Philippe Séguin

    Philippe S?guin National Order of Quebec is a former French politician, and is now first president of France's Cour des Comptes .He entered the Court of Financial Auditors in 1970, but he began a political career in the Neo-Gaullist party Gaullist Party....
     (2000), president of the French National Assembly
    French National Assembly

    The France National Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of France under the French Fifth Republic. The other is the French Senate ....
  • Jean-Pierre Raffarin
    Jean-Pierre Raffarin

    Jean-Pierre Raffarin is a France conservatism politician and French Senate for Vienne.Jean-Pierre Raffarin served as the Prime Minister of France from 6 May 2002 to 31 May 2005, resigning after France's rejection of the French referendum on the European Constitution on the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe....
     (2003), prime minister of France
  • Michel Rocard
    Michel Rocard

    Michel Rocard is a French politician, member of the Socialist Party . He served as Prime Minister of France under Fran?ois Mitterrand from 1988 to 1991, during which he created the Revenu minimum d'insertion , a social minimum welfare program for indigents, and led the Matignon Agreements regarding the status of New Caledonia....
     (2000), prime minister of France
  • Edmund Stoiber
    Edmund Stoiber

    Edmund R?diger Stoiber is a Germany politics, former minister-president of the States of Germany of Bavaria and former chairman of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria....
     (2003), former minister-president of Bavaria
    Bavaria

    Bavaria , with an area of and almost 12.5 million inhabitants, is a region located in the southeast of Germany and is the largest States of Germany of Germany by area....
  • Vaira Vike-Freiberga
    Vaira Vike-Freiberga

    Vaira Vike-Freiberga was the 6th President of Latvia and first List of Female Presidents of Latvia. She was elected President of Latvia in 1999 and re-elected in 2003....
     (2006), former president of Latvia


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  • Gérard Depardieu
    Gérard Depardieu

    name = G?rard DepardieuNational Order of Quebec| image = G?rard Depardieu 2008.jpg| imagesize =| caption = G?rard Depardieu, 2008...
     (2002), actor
  • Michel Drucker
    Michel Drucker

    Michel Drucker is a popular France journalist and Television host.Michel Drucker was born in Vire, Calvados, in Normandy. Jacques Drucker, a doctor, is Michel's younger brother and Jean Drucker a TV top executive, is Michel's older brother....
     (2001), television host
  • Bernard Pivot
    Bernard Pivot

    Bernard Pivot is a journalist, interviewer and host of French cultural television programmes. He is a member of the Acad?mie Goncourt....
     (2001), television host


See also

  • List of Canadian awards
    List of Canadian awards

    This is a list of all known awards in Canada, conferred by either members of the Monarchy of Canada#Canadian Royal Family, viceroys, governments, or private organizations....
  • List of Canadian provincial and territorial orders
    List of Canadian provincial and territorial orders

    The orders, decorations, and medals of the Canadian provinces, in which each Provinces and territories of Canada of Canada has devised a system of Order to honour residents for actions or deeds that benefit their local community or province, are in turn subsumed within the Orders, decorations, and medals of Canada....
  • List of prizes, medals, and awards
    List of prizes, medals, and awards

    A list of famous prizes, medals and awards including cups, trophy, bowls, badges, state decorations etc....
  • List of Quebecers
    List of Quebecers

    List of famous Quebecers: citizens of the Canadian province of Quebec....
  • State decoration
    State decoration

    State decorations are Order s, medals and other decorations granted by a state. International decorations are similar, but are not granted by a specific nation but rather an international organization....


External links

  • . The Canadian Encyclopedia
    The Canadian Encyclopedia

    The Canadian Encyclopedia is a source of information on Canada. It is available online, at no cost. The Canadian Encyclopedia is available in both English and French and includes some 14,000 articles in each language on a wide variety of subjects including history, popular culture, events, people, places, politics, arts, First Nations, s...
    . Historica Foundation of Canada, 2008. Accessed 20 January 2009.