Officer of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: November 20, 2014
• Invested on: November 18, 2015

For his even-handed and definitive scholarship on the history of relations between Canada’s Aboriginal peoples and its settlers.

Historian Jim Miller authored the first-ever accounts of Canada’s residential school system and the history of relations between Aboriginal peoples and the first settlers. His even-handed and definitive scholarship played a crucial role in introducing these subjects into the public consciousness during the 1980s and 1990s. Since then, he has emerged as one of our foremost experts on Aboriginal treaties and residential schools, and he has contributed to the healing and reconciliation process by chronicling the shared history of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians.