Member of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: June 25, 1984
• Invested on: April 10, 1985

A member of the Ontario Society of Artists since 1928, she was a founding member of the Canadian Group of Painters in the 1930s and of the Federation of Canadian Artists in the 1940s. In 1950 she was elected a member of the Royal Canadian Academy and in 1974 was named an Honorary Fellow of the Ontario College of Art. Mrs. Housser's work has been represented in every important exhibition held in Canada for over fifty years, and her paintings hang in all the notable Canadian, and some American, public galleries as well as in private collections.