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Gary Hyland, C.M., S.V.M., BA’62, Educ’63, BEd’64

Gary Hyland is a Saskatchewan teacher, writer, and activist. In 1993, he was short listed for the National Magazine Gold Medal Poetry Award, and he has won numerous prizes in the Saskatchewan Writers Guild annual competitions, including major poetry manuscript awards in 1991 and 1995, and the John V. Hicks Memorial Award in 2003. For contributions as a founder and leader in the arts, he has been recognized with an Honourary Doctor of Literature from the University of Regina, a province of Saskatchewan Volunteer Medal, a Queens Golden Jubilee Medal, the Lieutenant Governor s Major Arts Award, and was named a Member of the Order of Canada.