Member of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: May 2, 2013
• Invested on: November 21, 2014

For his contributions as an entrepreneur, as co-founder and chair of Canadian Natural Resources, and as a philanthropist.

Murray Edwards is lauded as one of Canada’s most successful entrepreneurs. With a wide array of thriving business interests ranging from natural resources to mining, aerospace to tourism, and banking to sports, he is best known as co-founder and chair of Canadian Natural Resources, one of Canada’s largest energy companies. He is widely sought out by policy makers provincially and nationally for his strategic advice on business issues facing the country. Also a generous philanthropist, he has supported educational, health care and cultural organizations, notably the Alberta Children’s Hospital.