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  The Canada Council for the Arts - Kiawak Ashoona, Thomas Courchene win Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prizes
The winner of the 1998 Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prize in the Arts was Jeanne Lamon, a baroque violinist and Music Director of Tafelmusik, while the 1998 Molson Prize in the Social Sciences and Humanities was won by University of Toronto law professor Michael J. Trebilcock.
The Canada Council for the Arts, in addition to its principal role of promoting and fostering the arts in Canada, administers and awards nearly 100 prizes and fellowships in the arts and humanities, many of which are the result of private bequests and gifts and are named in honour of the donor.
Courchene was Chair of the Ontario Economic Council of Canada from 1982 to 1985.
www.canadacouncil.ca /news/releases/2000/fh127242027511406250.htm   (1439 words)

  
 Molson Prize   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The prizes are intended to encourage continuing contribution to the cultural and intellectual heritage of Canada.
Funded by an endowment from the Molson Foundation, the prizes are administered by the Canada Council for the Arts in cooperation with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
The two laureates are chosen by a single, multidisciplinary peer assessment committee co-chaired by the Chairman of the Canada Council for the Arts and the President of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/M/Molson-Prize.htm   (594 words)

  
 The Canada Council for the Arts - Maria Campbell, Richard Tremblay win Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prizes
In awarding the Molson Prize in the Arts to Maria Campbell, the jury stated: “For her contribution to Canadian and Aboriginal literature and significant impact on the cultural evolution of Canada, the jury was unanimous in its choice of Maria Campbell for the 2004 Molson Prize in the Arts.
The winner of last year’s Molson Prize in the Arts was musician and composer Walter Boudreau, while the Molson Prize in the Social Sciences went to international affairs specialist Janice Gross Stein.
Representatives of the media are invited to attend the presentation of the Molson Prize in the Arts to Maria Campbell at 12:30 p.m.
www.canadacouncil.ca /news/releases/2004/nq127293590562656250.htm   (1135 words)

  
 Lévesque, Georges-Henri
He served as vice-president of the Canada Council (1957-62), the Association canadienne-française pour l'avancement des sciences and the Royal Society of Canada (1962-63).
He received the prestigious Canada Council MOLSON PRIZE (1966) as well as the Royal Bank Award (1982), the Pearson medal for peace (1983), and, most recently, the Fondation Édouard-Montpetit Medal (1985).
He was made a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1979 and an Officer of the Ordre nationale du Québec in 1985.
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 Manitoba Metis Federation Inc. - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Two Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prizes are awarded every year, one in the arts and one in social sciences or humanities.
The latter prize went to Richard Tremblay, a professor and researcher in the field of child development in Montreal.
The Molson Prizes, established in 1964 with an endowment of $2 million, are administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.
www.mmf.mb.ca /coranto/viewnews.cgi?id=EplyyFFFEuRLxbBFeW   (634 words)

  
 Prizes - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
It is awarded to an individual whose leadership, dedication, and originality of thought have significantly advanced understanding in his or her field of research, enriched Canadian society, and contributed to the country's cultural and intellectual life.
The SSHRC Aurora Prize recognizes an outstanding new researcher who is building a reputation for exciting and original research in the social sciences or humanities.
Each year, the Canada Council for the Arts, in conjunction with SSHRC, awards two $50,000 prizes to distinguished Canadians, one in the arts and the other in the social sciences and humanities.
www.sshrc.ca /web/winning/prize_e.asp   (152 words)

  
 Culture & Heritage · Connecting Canadians through Canada's Stories - Keeping Our Story Alive
Canada's ethnocultural, regional, religious, indigenous and linguistic diversity began to be recognized in new and more prominent ways, as were science and technology.
Canada also plays a significant international role in working to prevent illicit trafficking in cultural property and has recently signed The Hague Convention to protect artifacts in times of armed conflict.
Canada's historic places capture the sense and spirit of the nation, connect urban and rural Canadians, link the young and the elderly, and provide a bridge between newcomers and Canadians.
www.pch.gc.ca /pc-ch/mindep/misc/culture/htm/7.htm   (2405 words)

  
 The Canada Council for the Arts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Canada Council picks the artists by having a jury composed of artists who pick the best from all the candidates.
This means that the Canada Council doesn't listen to the politicians when they give grants to the artists.
The Canada Council has been in operation for 40 years and it was founded in 1957.
www.canada.uottawa.ca /minicourse/grp2day3.htm   (393 words)

  
 Douglas Cardinal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was hired by The Smithsonian Institution as the Primary Design Architect for the National Museum of the American Indian, or NMAI.
Cardinal has received many awards and honours for his work, such as the Canada Council Molson Prize for the Arts in 1992, the National Aboriginal Achievement Award in 1995, and the Caledonian Prize Lectureship in Edinburgh in 1997.
In 1990, he was made an officer of the Order of Canada.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Douglas_Cardinal   (252 words)

  
 Manitoba Metis Federation Inc. - News Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
CBC Arts News Last Updated Tue, 25 May 2004 11:28:20 EDT REGINA - Maria Campbell, the Métis writer who began her multi-discipline artistic career with her autobiography Halfbreed in 1973, has won the Molson Prize in the Arts from the Canada Council.
Canada Council Molson Prize worth $50,000 Joanne Paulson The StarPhoenix Wednesday, May 19, 2004 Maria Campbell, the well-known Saskatchewan author and playwright, has won the prestigious Canada Council Molson Prize in the arts, worth $50,000.
SASKATOON (CP) - Metis fiddler John Arcand was the big winner at the inaugural Saskatchewan Lieutenant-Governor's Awards when he was recognized for his life-time achievement as the "Master of the Metis Fiddle." Arcand, who won a national aboriginal achievement award last year, is seen by many as having...
www.mmf.mb.ca /news/archive/news-archive-5-2004.php   (484 words)

  
 CIAR E-Newsletter - June/July 2004 - CIAR Researchers Reap Top Awards
The Killam Prizes are awarded annually to distinguished Canadian scholars in the fields of health sciences, natural sciences, engineering, social sciences and humanities.
Two Molson prizes are awarded annually to distinguished Canadians, one in the arts and the other in the social sciences and humanities.
The Molson Prize is intended to encourage Canadians honoured with this distinction to continue contributing to the cultural and intellectual heritage of Canada.
www.ciar.ca /web/home.nsf/pages/home.0373!opendocument   (780 words)

  
 :: Institute for International Law and Public Policy :: People : Distinguished Scholars
In 1987 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and was appointed a University Professor in 1990.
He was honoured with a University of Toronto Teaching Award in 1986, and was awarded the Owen Prize in 1989 by the Foundation for Legal Research for his book, The Common Law of Restraint of Trade, which was chosen as the best law book in English published in Canada in the past two years.
In 1999, Professor Trebilcock received an Honorary Doctorate in Laws from McGill University and was awarded the Canada Council Molson Prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
www.temple.edu /iilpp/distinguishedScholars20052006.htm   (1017 words)

  
 Literature of Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
It cannot be described as malicious (although at Canadian literature's beginning, re-invasion by the U.S. was a legitimate fear), but is better seen as mild sibling rivalry, and may tie in with Canada's loyalty to the underdog as opposed to the haughty hero, two roles played by Canada and the U.S. in Canadian mythology.
Carol Shields's The Stone Diaries won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and in 1998 her novel Larry's Party won the Orange Prize.
Canada Council Molson Prize for distinguished contributions to Canada's cultural and intellectual heritage
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/L/Literature-of-Canada.htm   (1999 words)

  
 Walter Boudreau wins Canada Council for the Arts’ Molson Prize
The renowned composer, conductor, artistic director and SOCAN member Walter Boudreau is the winner of the 2003 Molson Prize in the Arts.
In awarding him the $50,000 prize for his outstanding lifetime contribution to the cultural and intellectual life of Canada, the jury wrote: "Walter Boudreau has been able to imagine grandiose projects and to make them happen.
Boudreau received his award, the latest in a long series, at a benefit event held in Montreal on June 4 for the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ), an ensemble of which he has been artistic director and conductor since 1988.
www.socan.ca /jsp/en/news_events/news_archive/MolsonPrize.jsp   (206 words)

  
 Biographies | About Us | Metamorphosis Festival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
With them, he has toured extensively across Canada and in Europe, and has led the ensemble in recordings for Dorian Records (Mariners and Milkmaids; Orlando di Lasso: Chansons and Madrigals; The Little Barley-Corne; The Way of the Pilgrim; O Lusty May) and SRI (Full Well She Sang: Women's Music from the Middle Ages and Renaissance).
Jeanne Lamon received the Canada Council's prestigious Molson Prize in 1999 for her lifelong commitment to the arts and excellence in her field.
Lamon was appointed a member of the Order of Canada in recognition of her exceptional achievements as a baroque violinist, teacher, and Music Director of Tafelmusik.
metamorphosisfestival.ca /about_us/bios.html   (1396 words)

  
 University of Toronto -- News@UofT -- U of T News Digest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Canada's lone newsweekly has been rating universities for 15 years, taking into account criteria such as student grades, faculty and reputation.
Ignatieff, 58, who has lived outside Canada for the past 30 years, bought a condo in Toronto at the end of the summer but is still teaching at Harvard University outside Boston.
Heart failure-a condition in which the ventricles, or lower chambers of the heart, are not able to pump blood effectively-is the most common cause of hospitalization for individuals aged 65 and older in both countries.
news.utoronto.ca /inthenews.asp   (2697 words)

  
 Concordia's Thursday Report
Bazergui is president of the National Council of Deans of Engineering and Applied Science, and of the Committee of Engineering Deans of Quebec.
She is a member of the Royal Society of Canada and has received honorary doctorates from the University of Ottawa, Hanover College, Queen's University, the University of Winnipeg, the University of British Columbia, and, as of next week, the University of Toronto.
Projects by Canada Land in the city of Guangzhou, a transportation hub in the People's Republic of China, have made it one of the city's largest developers.
ctr.concordia.ca /archives/is110698/art14.html   (2582 words)

  
 Iain Baxter and Ramsay Cook win Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prizes | CSCanada.Org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Ottawa, April 28, 2005 – Visual artist Iain Baxter and historian Ramsay Cook are the winners of this year’s Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prizes.
Baxter (aka IAIN BAXTERand) of Windsor, Ontario, is the winner of the Molson Prize in the Arts.
Cook, of Toronto, is the winner of the Molson Prize in the Social Sciences and Humanities.
www.cscanada.org /?q=node/33&PHPSESSID=79b612b28e570c6f6b267844198ded6c   (143 words)

  
 Fiction Authors in Depth - Alice Munro - Meyer Literature
Nearly all of Alice Munro’s fiction is set in southwestern Ontario, but her reputation as a brilliant short-story writer goes far beyond the borders of her native Canada.
She has explained in various interviews that her stories are not autobiographical, but she does claim an "emotional reality" for her characters that is drawn from her own life.
Her fictional world ranges across the breadth of Canada from Ontario to British Columbia, but most readers agree that her Ontario stories, rooted as they are in her own formative past, represent more evocative settings experienced in childhood and recollected by a perceptive adult memory.
www.bedfordstmartins.com /literature/bedlit/authors_depth/munro.htm   (696 words)

  
 CBC Arts: Schafer wins $30,000 music prize   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The $30,000 prize is awarded each year on a four-year cycle of dance, theatre, dance and music.
In their citation, the prize's peer assessment jury praised Schafer for his "prodigious output" of more than 120 choral, orchestral and chamber works.
Simon Brault, vice-chair of the Canada Council, will present Schafer with the prize at a ceremony and reception at Concordia on Dec. 6.
www.cbc.ca /story/arts/national/2005/11/08/Arts/schafer_councilprize_051105.html   (382 words)

  
 Terasen Lifetime Achievement Award - Alice Munro
Twice winner of the Giller Prize; three times the recipient of the Governor General's Award for Fiction, Alice Munro is peerless.
Her work has gained her the distinction accorded by the New York Times as "the only living writer in the English language to have made a major career out of short fiction alone." She is also the 11th annual recipient of the Terasen Lifetime Achievement Award for an Outstanding Literary Career in British Columbia.
Munro's work has received many literary prizes, including three Governor General's Awards, the Giller Prize, a Canada Council Molson's Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Prize, the first Canada-Australia Literary Prize and the first Marian Engel Award.
www.bcbookworld.com /terasen/alicemunro.html   (896 words)

  
 Victoria - Biographical Sketch of Northrop Frye   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
He entered Victoria College in the University of Toronto in 1929, graduating in Honours Philosophy and English in 1933; he then completed the theological course at Emmanuel College, and was ordained in the United Church of Canada in 1936.
He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1951, receiving the Society's Lorne Pierce medal in 1958 and its Pierre Chauveau medal in 1970.
In 1971 he was awarded the Canada Council Molson Prize, and in1978 he received the Royal Bank Award.
www.vicu.utoronto.ca /English/Biographical-Sketch-of-Northrop-Frye.html   (410 words)

  
 CBC Arts: Métis writer-playwright-filmmaker wins Canada Council prize   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
REGINA - Maria Campbell, the Métis writer who began her multi-discipline artistic career with her autobiography Halfbreed in 1973, has won the Molson Prize in the Arts from the Canada Council.
Though the Saskatchewan writer already has several awards under her belt, including a National Aboriginal Achievement Award, a Chalmers Award for Best New Play and a Dora Mavor Moore Award for playwrighting, the Molson Prize is the first time Campbell has won a monetary award.
The Canada Council will present the 2004 Molson Prize in the Arts to Campbell at Wanuskewin Heritage Park near Saskatoon on Sunday.
www.cbc.ca /story/arts/national/news/2004/05/25/Arts/campbellmolson.html   (472 words)

  
 UNB News Release: B663
Prior to joining HRDC, she served as secretary to the cabinet and clerk of the Executive Council for the government of New Brunswick.
A Companion of the Order of Canada, she is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy and holds seven honorary degrees.
The recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Ahmed Zewail is the Linus Pauling Chair Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology.
www.unb.ca /news/archives/releases/B663honorary.html   (762 words)

  
 Ferguson, Gerald
Over the years his work has been exhibited and collected internationally and nationally with important exhibitions in Cologne, Los Angeles, New York and Warsaw, and in Canada in Calgary, Halifax, Toronto, Vancouver and Ottawa (NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA).
A knowledgeable collector of Native and folk art, he donated "The Gerald Ferguson Collection of Nova Scotian Folk Art"; to the CANADIAN MUSEUM OF CIVILIZATION in 1985.
In 1995 he received the $50 000 Canada Council MOLSON PRIZE in the Arts.
thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0010268   (292 words)

  
 Studies in Canadian Literature
Other honours bestowed on Dr. Frye include the Canada Council Medal, the Royal Society's Pierre Chauveau Medal, the Royal Bank Award, and the Canada Council Molson Prize for distinguished contribution to Canadian literature.
In recognition of his importance in the history of modern literary criticism, an international conference on his work is being held in May, 1987, at the University of Rome.
She certainly knew all of that, the prizes and the amounts of money associated with them, and so on.
www.lib.unb.ca /Texts/SCL/bin/get.cgi?directory=vol11_2/&filename=Bogdan.htm   (6255 words)

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