Member of the Order of Canada
Awarded on: 2017-05-11
Invested on: 2018-09-06
Meredith Chilton, C.M.
Lac Brome, Quebec and Toronto, Ontario
Through her scholarship and dedication, Meredith Chilton has stimulated and invigorated the study and appreciation of ceramic art in Canada. As an art historian and long-time curator of the Gardiner Museum in Toronto, she helped to shape this institution into one of the world’s leading collections and research centres for historical ceramics. Her own studies on 18th-century European porcelain have produced authoritative texts and have shed light on the social significance of this art form.