Karen Bachmann, Director and Curator, Timmins Museum: National Exhibition Centre (Distinguished Career Award of Excellence)
Hailey Hollingshead, Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (Promising Leadership Award of Excellence)
Katherine Bourgon, Volunteer, Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery (Volunteer Service Award of Excellence)
Hamilton Civic Museums and Civicplan, “Reimagine Our Museums" (Award of Excellence in Community Engagement, WOW Distinction)
Niagara Falls History Museum, “The Poppy Project” (Award of Excellence in Community Engagement - Honourable Mention)
Canadian Automotive Museum, “Oshawa's Automotive Community” (Award of Excellence in Exhibitions)
Christina Sydorko, “Oil Museum of Canada Virtual Education” (Award of Excellence in Programs)
Thunder Bay Art Gallery, “Virtual Field Trip for Piitwewetam: Making is Medicine” (Award of Excellence in Programs - Honourable Mention)
Diefenbunker: Canada’s Cold War Museum, “Safeguarding Our Shelter: Visitor Experience Renewal at the Diefenbunker” (Award of Excellence in Special Projects)
King Heritage & Cultural Centre, “Stories of King: An Online 3D Exhibition with Treasured, Inc.” (Award of Excellence in Special Projects - Honourable Mention)
The Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery, “Public Art in Glass - Publication” (Award of Excellence in Publications)
Gayle McIntyre, Program Coordinator (retired), Fleming College Heritage Programs (Distinguished Career Award of Excellence)
Pailagi Jaimin Pandya, Museum Program Officer, Scarborough Museum, City of Toronto (Promising Leadership Award of Excellence)
Susan Jama, Assistant Curator & Program Coordinator, Toronto Ward Museum (Promising Leadership Award of Excellence - Honourable Mention)
Graeme Watson, Volunteer Director, Murney Tower Museum (Volunteer Service Award of Excellence)
Alice Borrowman, Middleville and District Museum (Volunteer Service Award of Excellence - Honourable Mention)
Kay-Nah-Chi-Wah-Nung Historical Centre, “Collections at Kay-Nah-Chi-Wah-Nung" (Award of Excellence in Special Projects, WOW Distinction)
Myseum of Toronto, “Wigwam Chi-Chemung” (Award of Excellence in Special Projects, Honourable Mention)
Whitchurch-Stouffville Museum & Community Centre, “Archaeology Alive!: The Jean Baptiste Lainé Site in Whitchurch-Stouffville” (Award of Excellence in Exhibitions)
THEMUSEUM, “Afterlife: A Seánce Experience” (Award of Excellence in Exhibitions - Honourable Mention)
Grey Roots Museum & Archives, “Facing the Flames: The History of Firefighting in Grey County” (Award of Excellence in Community Engagement)
Bruce County Museum & Cultural Centre, “Riding the Rails” (Award of Excellence in Community Engagement - Honourable Mention)
Lisa Terech, Community Engagement Coordinator, Oshawa Museum (Promising Leadership)
Senta Ross, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (Volunteer Service, WOW Distinction)
Museums and Heritage Services, City of Toronto, "Beatles 50 T.O. featuring When the Beatles Rocked Toronto: Metropolitan Life & Music in the Mid-60s" (Awards of Excellence in Special Projects)
Diefenbunker, Canada's Cold War Museum, "Escape the Diefenbunker" (Award of Excellence in Programs)
Archives of Ontario, "Family Ties: Ontario Turns 150" (Award of Excellence in Exhibitions)
Waterloo Region Museum, "City on Edge" (Award of Excellence in Exhibitions- Honourable Mention)
Atikokan Centennial Museum, "Revealing the Regalia: Honouring Anishinaabe culture through dance" (Award of Excellence in Community Engagement)
Mark Badham, Curator, Miller Museum of Geology, Queens University (Distinguished Career)
Kathryn Jamieson, Curator Director, Goulbourn Museum (Promising Leadership)
Gilbert Rice, Grey Roots Museum (Volunteer Service)
Tania Gilchrist, Bruce County Museum & Cultural Centre (Volunteer Service - Honourable Mention)
Guelph Museums, "In Flanders Fields at 100: Time to Remember" (Awards of Excellence in Special Projects, WOW Distinction)
Niagara Falls Museums and Chiefswood NHS, "Discovering Kaná:ta: Exploring the Culture and History of the Haudenosaunee (Six Nations)" (Award of Excellence in Programs)
St. Catharines Museum & Welland Canals Centre, "The Travelling Museum" (Award of Excellence in Programs - Honourable Mention)
Black Creek Pioneer Village, "Breaking the Silence: Stories of the British Home Children, 1869-1948" (Award of Excellence in Exhibitions)
Britt Welter-Nolan, Myseum Intersections (Award of Excellence in Community Engagement)
Cathy Blackbourn, Instructor, Museum Studies, University of Toronto (Distinguished Career)
The Diefenbunker: Canada’s Cold War Museum, Conflict Resolution Workshops (Award of Excellence in Programs, WOW Dinstinction)
Archives of Ontario Dear Sadie Exhibit Team, "Dear Sadie: Love, Lives and Remembrance from Ontario's First World War" (Award of Excellence in Exhibitions)
Barry Lord and Maria Piacente, Co-editors, "The Manual of Museum Exhibitions, 2nd Edition" (Award of Excellence in Publications)
Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives, Sikh Heritage Month at PAMA, April 2015 (Award of Excellence in Community Engagement)
The Bata Shoe Museum “Roger Vivier: Process to Perfection” (Award of Excellence in Publications)
George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art “Transformation by Fire: Women Overcoming Violence Through Clay” (Award of Excellence in Exhibitions)
Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation and the City of Toronto Museum Service “Outcome of the War of 1812: First Nations Betrayed” (Award of Excellence in Community Engagement)
Peel Art Gallery, Museum, and Archives “Interactive Map of Peel” (Award of Excellence in Special Projects)
Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) “TIFF Kids digiPlaySpace” (Award of Excellence in Programs)
The W. Garfield Weston Foundation (Museum Benefactor – Organization)
Canadian War Museum “1812 Exhibition Project” (Award of Excellence in Exhibitions)
Canadian War Museum “The Human Library” (Award of Excellence in Community Engagement)
Halton Region Museum “Jeff’s Home” (Award of Excellence in Programs)
Jean-Bernard Caron – Royal Ontario Museum “Burgess Shale Virtual Museum”(Award of Excellence in Publications)
Lake of the Woods Museum “Lake of the Woods Museum Mobile Tour” (Award of Excellence in Special Projects)
Brian Malcolm - Distinguished Career
2011
Bev Dietrich (Lifetime Achievement)
Corporation of the City of Peterborough “Peterborough Museum & Archives Partnership with the Arts and Heritage Programs of Fleming College” (Award of Excellence in Corporate Service)
Haldimand Museum “Haldimand Museums Educational Resources – WWI”
The National Gallery of Canada and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art “(NGC@MOCCA)”
2011 Award Recipients
2010
Dave Benson (Lifetime Achievement)
Allan Symons (Lifetime Achievement)
Adele Espina “For King and County: Solders of the Haliburton Highlands” Grey Roots Museum and Archives “The Good People: Know Our Stories, Know Us”
Museums of Mississauga "Benares DVD Project"
Ottawa Museum Network “Enhancing Conservation Standard”
Dave Benson - Lifetime Achievement Award
2009
Daniel O’Brien (Lifetime Achievement)
Bruce County Museum and Cultural Centre, Southampton “Wizardry & Wonders”
Council of Heritage Organizations in Ottawa “This Week in Heritage / Patrimoine Hebdomadaire”
Friends of Joseph Schneider Haus, Kitchener “This Old Haus: A Place in Time”(Award of Excellence in Publications)
The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Museum “Arresting Images: Mug Shots from the OPP Museum”
Daniel O’Brien - Lifetime Achievement Award
2008
Bill Yeager
Bytown Museum “Multilingual Audio Tour”
Friends of the Museums of Mississauga and the Museums of Mississauga “The Log Cabin at Bradley Museum”
Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority “Balls Falls Centre for Conservation”(Award of Excellence in Corporate Contribution)
Textile Museum of Canada (Award of Excellence in Collection Digitization and Online Program Development)
Upper Canada Village, Jordan Heritage Resources, Tactile Vision Inc. “The Museum Access Pilot Project”
2007
Grey Roots Museum and Archives “L’Chaim – To Life: The Story of the Beth Ezekiel Synagogue” (Outstanding Contribution to the Ontario Museum Community)
The Town of St. Mary’s Museum (Outstanding Contribution to the Ontario Museum Community)
Wellington County Museum and Archives “If These Walls Could Speak: The Wellington County House of Industry and Refuge 1877-1947” (Outstanding Contribution to the Ontario Museum Community)
2006
Community of Ottawa “Museum Sustainability Plan”
Heritage Sarnia-Lambton “DVD Project – ‘Sarnia-Lambton: Just Passing Through’”
Museum on the Boyne “A Japanese Kimono Exhibit”
Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Museum “The OPP’s Best Friend – Celebrating 40 Years of the OPP’s Canine Unit”
Veterans’ Green Project Committee – Heritage Resources, City of Waterloo “Veteran’s Green Project”
2005
Dr. M. Christine Castle
2004
Marilynn Havelka
Gayle McIntyre
Kathryn Pankowski
Chatham-Kent Museum “The Sulman Mummy” Project (Award of Merit in Research)
Lanark County Museums Association “The Travelling Exhibition Project” (Award of Merit in Exhibitions)
Parkdale Collegiate Institute (Diane Sullivan) “The Legacy of High Park Oral History Project” (Award of Merit in Programming)
Strong Voice for Heritage Coalition, Ottawa (Award of Merit for their 2004 Advocacy Work)
2003
Bonita Johnson-deMatteis
Katrina Pyke
Stephanie McMullen“Great County Black Veterans’ Memorial Book” (Award of Merit in Research and Writing)
Doon Heritage Crossroads, City of Waterloo “The History of Seagram Plant in Waterloo” (Award of Merit in Programming & Interpretation)
Guelph Museums (Bev Dietrich and Kathleen Wall) “Growing Up in Guelph”(Award of Merit in Programming & Interpretation)
Grey County Museum “From Slavery to Freedom: African-Canadians in Grey County” (Award of Merit in Programming & Interpretation)
Red Lake Museum “Red Lake Heritage Centre” (Award of Merit in Fund Raising)
Katrina Pyke - Award Recipient
2002
Dawn Roach Bowen
Gail Dexter Lord & Barry Lord
London Regional Children's Museum "Reach for the Stars" (Award of Merit in Museum Management)
Oshawa Community Museum and Archives "Lakefront Memories: A Memory Book Project" (Award of Merit in Programming)
Royal Botanical Gardens "Colour Comes Alive!" (Award of Merit in Programming & Interpretation)
Royal Ontario Museum "Regional Museum Program" (Award of Merit for Outstanding Achievement in the Museum Field in Ontario)
Wellington County Museum and Archives "Far From Home : A Soldier's Live of the Front" (Award of Merit in Programming & Interpretation)
2001
Charles Doubrough (Outstanding Volunteer)
James Hunter (Significant Contribution to Museums During a Period of 10 or more Years)
Julia Matthews (Significant Contribution to Museums During a Period of 10 or more Years)
William Moore
Doon Heritage Crossroads (Award of Merit in Accessibility)
Guelph Museums "Rogers @ Home: Growing up in Guelph Children's Museum" (Award of Merit in Programming)
Agnes Etherington Art Centre "Museopathy Project"
Guelph Museum, Peterborough Centennial Museum and Archives, Welland Historical Museum, & West Parry Sound District Museum (Travelling Exhibit Partnership Program Outstanding Achievement)
2000
Elise Harding-Davis
Barbara Ribey (Significant Contribution to Museums During a Period of 10 or more Years)
Sharron Skevington (Award of Merit in Programming & Interpretation)
Carol Sprachman
Timmins Museum N.E.C., Timmins Underground Gold Mine Tour, Tourism Timmins, and Ivey-League Consulting Services "City of Timmins CD-ROM Collective" (Award of Merit in Research, Writing, Electronics, & Publication)
1999
Margaret Anderson-Herrmann (Outstanding Volunteer)
Janet Chessell (Significant Contribution to Museums During a Period of 10 or more Years)
Henry Taylor
Hamilton Military Museum & the Nelson High School History Department "Reflections of a Darker Time" (Award of Merit in Programming & Interpretation)
Peel Heritage Complex - Literacy Project Team "I Do, I Do: An Exploration of Wedding Traditions in Peel 1850-1999" (Award of Merit in Programming & Interpretation)
1998
Jane Foster
Susan Jefferies (Award of Merit in Programming & Interpretation)
Tom Reitz (Outstanding Volunteer)
Dianne Wolfe
1997
Ellen Langlands
John Jennings
Lorraine O'Byrne
St. Catharines Museum "Following the North Star" (Award of Merit in Programming & Interpretation)
1996
Mackenzie Heritage Printery Advisory Committee (Award of Merit in Volunteer Groups)
Peterborough Discovery Team (Award of Merit in Programming & Interpretation)
South Simcoe Pioneer Museum Committee (Award of Merit in Fund Raising)
Waterloo Regional Curatorial Centre (Award of Merit in Collections Management)
1995
Lynne Teather
Pat Zimmer
Dundurn Castle Archaeology Project
1994
Helen Knibb
Margaret May
1993
Jon Barlow
Ken Doherty
Tom Hill
Peter Styrmo
1992
Clause Breede
John Carter
1991
Helen Hutchison
David Newlands
1990
Carol Johnston
Joan Johnston
1989
Susan Burke
1988
Anne Heideman
1987
Tom Brown
1986
Elliot Avedon
Margaret Machell
Margaret MacKelvie
Art Gallery of Ontario (Adult Programs Department)