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Governor General's Academic Medal

Canadian academic award

The Governor General's Academic Medal is awarded to the student graduating with the highest grade point average from a Canadian high school, college or university program. They are presented by the educational institution on behalf of the Governor General. These medals are not part of the Canadian Honours System.

History

The medals were created by Lord Dufferin, Canada's third Governor General after Confederation in 1873.

Criteria

To maintain a spirit of universality across the country, the medals are awarded on academic marks only, regardless of the less tangible aspects of the student's life,^[1] such as good citizenship, moral behaviour and, volunteer and community work. The Chancellery of Honours administers the Governor General's Academic Medal. Canadian citizenship is not a prerequisite for the award.

Famous recipients

Famous recipients include:

Robert Bourassa – Premier of Quebec and Quebec Liberal leader
Andrée-Anne Dupuis-Bourret – French-Canadian artist
Jean-Claude Bradley – chemist who coined the term Open Notebook Science
Kim Campbell – federal Progressive Conservative Leader and Prime Minister
Robert F. Christy – Canadian-American theoretical physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project
Adrienne Clarkson – journalist and Governor General of Canada
Tommy Douglas – Premier of Saskatchewan, leader of the CCF and federal NDP
Sylvia Fedoruk - Physicist, medical physicist, curler and the 17th Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan
Sylvia Hahn – Canadian artist and head of the art department at the Royal Ontario Museum
W. G. Hardy – Canadian Classics professor, writer, International Ice Hockey Federation president^[2]
Mabel Gweneth Humphreys – 20th-century Canadian-American mathematician^[3]
Nancy Lane Perham – cell biologist at the University of Cambridge
Rachel Marsden – journalist, Fox News host, and internationally syndicated columnist^[4]
Gabrielle Roy – French-Canadian author, three-time winner
Duane Rousselle – Canadian Sociologist and Psychoanalyst
Robert Stanfield – federal Progressive Conservative Leader and Leader of the Opposition
Pierre Trudeau – Prime Minister of Canada and federal Liberal Party leader
Jesse Thistle - Author and Assistant Professor
Paul Vermeersch – Canadian poet

External links

Academic Medals on the Canadian Governor General's web site

References

^ "The Governor General of Canada".
^ Trimmer, Bob (September 21, 1963). "Prof. George Hardy: Author-Educationist". Lethbridge Herald. Lethbridge, Alberta. p. 5.
^ Green, Judy; Laduke, Jeanne (15 January 2016). "Supplementary Material for Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD's" (PDF). American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
^ "Recipients". 11 June 2018.