Member of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: May 12, 2016
• Invested on: November 17, 2017

Linda McKnight is well known as a pioneering woman of Canadian publishing. For more than 25 years she worked as an editor and publisher at influential Canadian houses, helping to raise industry standards and shape the profession. Later, she cemented her reputation as a leading literary agent with MGA Inc., and then with Westwood Creative Artists. Known as a stalwart friend to writers, she has helped the careers of numerous fiction and non-fiction authors, latterly supporting the works of many of Canada’s notable historians.