• Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Order of Canada

• Member of the Order of Canada

  • Awarded on: November 3, 2011
  • Invested on: May 25, 2012

  Donald Taylor is a successful entrepreneur and generous philanthropist. Chief executive officer of Engineered Air, he built his company into a thriving global business thanks to his innovations in air movement engineering. As a philanthropist, he has supported educational, health care and arts organizations in Alberta, including a performing arts venue at Mount Royal University, a state-of-the-art digital library at the University of Calgary, and educational programs at Heritage Park Historical Village, in Calgary.
  

• Officer of the Order of Canada

  • Awarded on: November 19, 2015
  • Invested on: February 12, 2016

  For his influential and innovative donations as a benefactor of civic, educational and health care initiatives in Canada and abroad.
  
  Don Taylor is among CanadaÆs most generous and principled philanthropists. He founded an ingenious engineering business that has been successful across North America, giving him the opportunity to enhance important public causes. His passion for improving the arts, education and health care has resulted in world-class facilities being built at the University of Calgary, Mount Royal University and the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede. At the international level, he has funded an integrative medicine centre in California and an eye hospital in Ghana. His determination to use philanthropy to change peopleÆs lives has been a model and an inspiration for other benefactors to follow.