Governor General's Award

• Edmonton woman receives Governor General’s medal for exceptional volunteer service

  Jean Henderson received the Governor General of Canada Sovereign's Medal for Volunteers at a ceremony in Edmonton on Wednesday afternoon.

  Features

  Mar 27, 2024
  
• Ryan Reynolds receives Governor General’s award with song tribute that brings him to tears

  'I’m glad I don’t have to be dead to experience something like this. I’m so beyond touched right now,' an emotional Reynolds wrote on Twitter of his 2021 Governor General's award.

  Entertainment

  Nov 27, 2021
  
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• ‘No one else wrote like him”: friends mourn death of Nova Scotia poet Don Domanski

  Domanski is a Governor General's Award winner who died of a heart attack Sept. 7 at the age of 70.

  Canada

  Sep 24, 2020
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• Winnipeg author wins national literary award

  David Alexander Robertson of Winnipeg can now count Governor General Award winner as one of his achievements. 

  Nov 1, 2017
• Acclaimed actor, director and playwright Joy Coghill-Thorne dead at 90

  Joy Coghill-Thorne was born in Findlater, Sask., on May 13, 1926, and grew to be a trailblazer in the Canadian theatre community.

  Canada

  Jan 25, 2017
• Madeleine Thien among winners of 2016 Governor General’s award

  Vancouver-born, Montreal-based Madeleine Thien has won this year's Governor General's Literary Award for fiction and is in line for a second major book prize later today.

  Canada

  Oct 25, 2016