Founding Chairman of the Council for Business and the Arts in Canada, past President of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Vice-President of Roy Thomson Hall, he continues to support community and cultural activities on an ever-wider scale. He maintains these extraordinary commitments in addition to serving as Chairman of the Board of Telefilm Canada, the University of Guelph and the Toronto Economic Development Corporation. (This is a promotion within the Order).
Member of the Order of Canada
Awarded on: 1978-01-11
Invested on: 1978-04-19
Chairman of the Board of Norcen Energy Resources, Ltd., whose devotion to a wide variety of community and cultural activities in Toronto has set an inspiring example to his fellow citizens.