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Honorary degree recipients
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| Date | Name | Degree |
| May 1, 1919 | The Honorable Edward Ludlow Wetmore | Doctor of Civil Law |
| May 5, 1922 | Angus Mackay | Doctor of Laws |
| May 1, 1925 | The Honorable Walter Scott | Doctor of Laws |
| May 4, 1928 | Arthur Henry Reginald Buller | Doctor of Laws |
| May 4, 1928 | Duncan McColl | Doctor of Laws |
| May 4, 1928 | The Most Reverend O.E. Mathieu | Doctor of Laws |
| May 4, 1928 | The Honorable William Richard Motherwell | Doctor of Laws |
| May 4, 1928 | Henry Marshall Tory | Doctor of Laws |
| May 3, 1929 (special) | The Right Reverend George Exton Lloyd | Doctor of Laws |
| May 3, 1929 (special) | The Most Reverend Samuel Pritchard Matheson | Doctor of Laws |
| May 29, 1931 | The Honorable John Bracken | Doctor of Laws |
| May 29, 1931 | Sir Frederick William Gordon Haultain | Doctor of Laws |
| May 29, 1931 | The Reverend Principal Edmund Henry Oliver | Doctor of Laws |
| May 20, 1932 | Joseph Wright Sifton | Doctor of Laws |
| May 12, 1933 | The Reverend Adrian Gabriel Morice | Doctor of Laws |
| May 11, 1934 | James Alexander Maclean | Doctor of Laws |
| May 8, 1936 | Francis Hedley Auld | Doctor of Laws |
| May 8, 1936 | Sir Robert Alexander Falconer | Doctor of Laws |
| May 8, 1936 | William Setchel Learned | Doctor of Laws |
| May 8, 1936 | Arthur Stanley Mackenzie | Doctor of Laws |
| May 8, 1936 | Robert Charles Wallace | Doctor of Laws |
| May 14, 1937 | William Boyd | Doctor of Laws |
| May 14, 1937 | William Pollock Fraser | Doctor of Laws |
| May 13, 1938 | Christina Cameron Murray | Doctor of Laws |
| May 13, 1938 | Walter Charles Murray | Doctor of Civil Law |
| May 12, 1939 | George Herbert Ling | Doctor of Laws |
| May 10, 1940 | The Honorable William Ferdinand Alphonse Turgeon | Doctor of Laws |
| May 9, 1941 | James Walter MacNeill | Doctor of Laws |
| May 9, 1941 | Arthur Silver Morton | Doctor of Laws |
| May 14, 1943 | The Honorable Carl Hambro | Doctor of Civil Law |
| May 12, 1944 | Lt. General Andrew George Latta McNaughton | Doctor of Laws |
| May 12, 1944 | The Most Reverend Gerald Casey Murray | Doctor of Laws |
| May 11, 1945 | The Right Reverend William Thompson Hallam | Doctor of Laws |
| May 11, 1945 | Forrest Frank Hill | Doctor of Laws |
| May 11, 1945 | Chalmers Jack Mackenzie | Doctor of Laws |
| February 12, 1946 (special) | General Henry Duncan Graham Crerar | Doctor of Laws |
| May 10, 1946 | Lloyd Lyne Dines | Doctor of Laws |
| May 10, 1946 | The Reverend David Strathy Dix | Doctor of Laws |
| May 10, 1946 | The Honorable Charles Avery Dunning | Doctor of Laws |
| May 10, 1946 | Robert George Ferguson | Doctor of Laws |
| May 9, 1947 | Ethel Margaret Coppinger | Doctor of Laws |
| May 9, 1947 | Frank Cyril James | Doctor of Laws |
| May 9, 1947 | The Honorable Donald Maclean | Doctor of Civil Law |
| May 9, 1947 | Richard Albert Wilson | Doctor of Laws |
| May 13, 1948 | Samuel John Dornan | Doctor of Laws |
| May 13, 1948 | Air Vice-Marshal Clifford Mackay McEwen | Doctor of Laws |
| May 14, 1948 | George Spence | Doctor of Laws |
| June 8, 1948 (special) | John Franklin Booth | Doctor of Laws |
| June 8, 1948 (special) | William Harrison Cook | Doctor of Laws |
| June 8, 1948 (special) | John Hubert Craigie | Doctor of Laws |
| June 8, 1948 (special) | Kenneth William Neatby | Doctor of Laws |
| June 8, 1948 (special) | Robert Newton | Doctor of Laws |
| May 12, 1949 | Henry Percy Armes | Doctor of Laws |
| May 12, 1949 | Lawrence Eldred Kirk | Doctor of Laws |
| May 13, 1949 | The Honorable William Melville Martin | Doctor of Laws |
| May 13, 1949 | James MacDonald Minifie | Doctor of Laws |
| June 17, 1949 (special) | Jack Francis Caverly Anderson | Doctor of Laws |
| June 17, 1949 (special) | Charles Hill | Doctor of Laws |
| June 17, 1949 (special) | Joseph Arthur MacFarlane | Doctor of Laws |
| June 17, 1949 (special) | William Magner | Doctor of Laws |
| May 12, 1950 | Edgar Spinney Archibald | Doctor of Laws |
| May 12, 1950 | Neil Herman Jacoby | Doctor of Laws |
| May 12, 1950 | Hector Y. MacDonald | Doctor of Laws |
| May 12, 1950 | Thorbergur Thorvaldson | Doctor of Laws |
| May 11, 1951 | James Alexander Corry | Doctor of Laws |
| May 11, 1951 | James Henderson | Doctor of Laws |
| May 11, 1951 | Harold Williams Jamieson | Doctor of Laws |
| May 11, 1951 | Violet McNaughton | Doctor of Laws |
| May 11, 1951 | James Sutherland Thomson | Doctor of Laws |
| May 9, 1952 | Father Henry Carr | Doctor of Laws |
| May 9, 1952 | Thomas Lax | Doctor of Laws |
| May 9, 1952 | The Reverend Arthur Bruce Barbour Moore | Doctor of Laws |
| May 9, 1952 | William John Finley Warren | Doctor of Laws |
| May 8, 1953 | James Wilfred Estey | Doctor of Civil Law |
| May 8, 1953 | Gerhard Herzberg | Doctor of Laws |
| May 8, 1953 | Arthur Moxon | Doctor of Civil Law |
| May 8, 1953 | Guilford Bevil Reed | Doctor of Laws |
| May 14, 1954 | George Fredrick Curtis | Doctor of Laws |
| May 14, 1954 | Arnold Davidson Dunton | Doctor of Laws |
| May 14, 1954 | Cyril Harold Goulden | Doctor of Laws |
| May 14, 1954 | George Wilson Robertson | Doctor of Laws |
| May 13, 1955 | Caleb Henry Fisher | Doctor of Laws |
| May 13, 1955 | Louis Henry Hantelman | Doctor of Laws |
| May 13, 1955 | James Roy MacKay | Doctor of Laws |
| May 13, 1955 | His Excellency, The Right Honorable Vincent Massey | Doctor of Laws |
| May 13, 1955 | The Honorable William John Patterson | Doctor of Laws |
| May 13, 1955 | Brigadier General His Honor Alexander Ross | Doctor of Laws |
| May 13, 1955 | Samuel Nathan Wynn | Doctor of Laws |
| May 14, 1955 (special) | George Harvey Agnew | Doctor of Laws |
| May 14, 1955 (special) | Edward James Baldes | Doctor of Laws |
| May 14, 1955 (special) | Robert Davies Defries | Doctor of Laws |
| May 14, 1955 (special) | Kathleen Wilhelmina Ellis | Doctor of Laws |
| May 14, 1955 (special) | Walker Stewart Lindsay | Doctor of Laws |
| May 14, 1955 (special) | Frederick Dodge Mott | Doctor of Laws |
| May 14, 1955 (special) | John Boyle Ritchie | Doctor of Laws |
| May 11, 1956 | Arthur Richardson Brown | Doctor of Laws |
| May 11, 1956 | William Kaye Lamb | Doctor of Laws |
| May 11, 1956 | Duncan Alexander MacGibbon | Doctor of Laws |
| May 11, 1956 | James Gordon Taggart | Doctor of Laws |
| May 10, 1957 | Donald Grant Creighton | Doctor of Laws |
| May 10, 1957 | Erie Eli Eisenhauer | Doctor of Laws |
| May 10, 1957 | Ray Fletcher Farquharson | Doctor of Laws |
| May 10, 1957 | Evan Alan Hardy | Doctor of Laws |
| May 9, 1958 | Nancy Foster Adams | Doctor of Laws |
| May 9, 1958 | The Right Honorable John George Diefenbaker | Doctor of Civil Law |
| May 9, 1958 | Wilbur Roy Jackett | Doctor of Civil Law |
| May 9, 1958 | Cornelius Packard Rhoads | Doctor of Laws |
| May 9, 1958 | Henry George Thode | Doctor of Laws |
| May 8, 1959 | Pierre Dansereau | Doctor of Laws |
| May 8, 1959 | Harold Elford Johns | Doctor of Laws |
| May 8, 1959 | Everett Clayton Leslie | Doctor of Civil Law |
| September 29, 1959 (special) | Weldon Grant Brown | Doctor of Laws |
| September 29, 1959 (special) | The Honorable Brooke Claxton | Doctor of Laws |
| September 29, 1959 (special) | The Right Honorable James Garfield Gardiner | Doctor of Laws |
| September 29, 1959 (special) | Robert Glen | Doctor of Laws |
| September 29, 1959 (special) | William Archibald Mackintosh | Doctor of Laws |
| September 29, 1959 (special) | Hugh MacLennan | Doctor of Laws |
| September 29, 1959 (special) | Wilder Penfield | Doctor of Laws |
| September 29, 1959 (special) | Francis Melville Quance | Doctor of Laws |
| September 29, 1959 (special) | Robert Gordon Robertson | Doctor of Laws |
| September 29, 1959 (special) | George Wilfred Simpson | Doctor of Laws |
| September 29, 1959 (special) | Kenneth Wiffin Taylor | Doctor of Laws |
| May 12, 1960 | Walter Palmer Thompson | Doctor of Civil Law |
| May 12, 1960 | Harold Clayton Urey | Doctor of Science |
| May 13, 1960 | Samuel Ralph Laycock | Doctor of Laws |
| May 13, 1960 | Norman Archibald MacRae MacKenzie | Doctor of Civil Law |
| May 11, 1961 | George Arnold Reeve Hart | Doctor of Laws |
| May 11, 1961 | Murdoch Alexander MacPherson | Doctor of Civil Law |
| May 11, 1961 | Very Reverend Georges-Henri Levesque | Doctor of Laws |
| May 12, 1961 | Major James William Coldwell | Doctor of Laws |
| May 12, 1961 | John Henry Wesson | Doctor of Laws |
| November 25, 1961 | James Lorne Gray | Doctor of Laws |
| November 25, 1961 | William Ramsay | Doctor of Laws |
| November 25, 1961 | David Landsborough Thomson | Doctor of Laws |
| May 11, 1962 | Sir John Douglas Cockcroft | Doctor of Science |
| May 11, 1962 | The Honorable Mr. Justice Edward Milton Culliton | Doctor of Civil Law |
| May 11, 1962 | The Honorable Thomas Clement Douglas | Doctor of Laws |
| May 11, 1962 | Vivian Williams Morton | Doctor of Laws |
| May 11, 1962 | J. Alphonse Ouimet | Doctor of Laws |
| May 11, 1962 | Edgar William Richard Steacie | Doctor of Science |
| November 17, 1962 | Alexander Young Jackson | Doctor of Laws |
| November 17, 1962 | Frank Hawkins Underhill | Doctor of Laws |
| November 17, 1962 | George Urwin | Doctor of Laws |
| May 14, 1963 | Very Reverend Henri Legare | Doctor of Laws |
| May 14, 1963 | The Right Honorable Louis Stephen St. Laurent | Doctor of Laws |
| May 14, 1963 | Alfred Blalock | Doctor of Laws |
| May 15, 1963 | James Bishop Harrington | Doctor of Laws |
| May 15, 1963 | Clifford Henry Whiting | Doctor of Laws |
| November 23, 1963 | Lieutenant General Eedson Louis Millard Burns | Doctor of Laws |
| November 23, 1963 | Sir Hugh Stott Taylor | Doctor of Laws |
| November 23, 1963 | Jon Vickers | Doctor of Laws |
| May 12, 1964 | Robert Watson Sellar | Doctor of Laws |
| May 12, 1964 | The Honorable Mr. Justice Emmett Matthew Hall | Doctor of Civil Law |
| May 12, 1964 | Wilfrid Bennet Lewis | Doctor of Science |
| May 13, 1964 | Reverend Ahab Spence | Doctor of Laws |
| May 13, 1964 | John Ansel Anderson | Doctor of Science |
| November 17, 1964 (special) | George Craig Laurence | Doctor of Science |
| November 17, 1964 (special) | Wolfgang Kurt Hermann Panofsky | Doctor of Science |
| November 17, 1964 (special) | Vasilii Vasilevich Vladimirskii | Doctor of Science |
| November 17, 1964 (special) | Denys Haigh Wilkinson | Doctor of Science |
| May 17, 1965 | Rex Harold Schneider | Doctor of Laws |
| May 17, 1965 | The Right Honorable Lester Bowles Pearson | Doctor of Civil Law |
| May 19, 1965 | John Francis Leddy | Doctor of Laws |
| May 20, 1965 | Charles Cecil Hay | Doctor of Laws |
| May 20, 1965 | John Kenneth Galbraith | Doctor of Laws |
| May 20, 1965 | Frederick S. Mendel | Doctor of Laws |
| November 6, 1965 | Ernest Wynne (Joe) Griffiths | Doctor of Laws |
| November 6, 1965 | Diamond Jenness | Doctor of Laws |
| November 6, 1965 | Francis Reginald Scott | Doctor of Laws |
| May 14, 1966 | Albert William Trueman | Doctor of Laws |
| May 14, 1966 | Lois Marshall | Doctor of Laws |
| May 17, 1966 | Gratien Gelinas | Doctor of Laws |
| May 17, 1966 | William Stafford Kirkpatrick | Doctor of Laws |
| May 18, 1966 | The Honorable Charles Gavan Power | Doctor of Laws |
| November 5, 1966 | John Wendell MacLeod | Doctor of Laws |
| November 5, 1966 | Henry Llewellyn Fowler | Doctor of Laws |
| May 19, 1967 | Louis Agustus Thorton | Doctor of Laws |
| May 19, 1967 | Hugh Hamilton Saunderson | Doctor of Laws |
| May 19, 1967 | Louis Augustus Thornton | Doctor of Laws |
| May 24, 1967 | Jean Papineau-Couture | Doctor of Laws |
| May 24, 1967 | Thorvaldur Johnson | Doctor of Laws |
| May 24, 1967 | William Ralph Lederman | Doctor of Laws |
| May 25, 1967 | Maurice Lebel | Doctor of Laws |
| May 25, 1967 | Margaret Cameron | Doctor of Laws |
| October 14, 1967 | Minoru Yamasaki | Doctor of Laws |
| November 4, 1967 | Eugene Forsey | Doctor of Laws |
| November 4, 1967 | Frederick Clinton Cronkite | Doctor of Laws |
| November 4, 1967 | Justice Fred A. Sheppard | Doctor of Laws |
| May 14, 1968 | H. Northrop Frye | Doctor of Laws |
| May 14, 1968 | Omond McKillop Solandt | Doctor of Laws |
| May 15, 1968 | The Honourable Robert Leith Hanbidge | Doctor of Laws |
| May 17, 1968 | Walter Hugh Johns | |
| October 26, 1968 | Graham Spry | |
| November 2, 1968 | Leo Marion | Doctor of Laws |
| November 2, 1968 | William Craig McNamara | Doctor of Laws |
| May 12, 1969 (special) | Lyell Gustin | Doctor of Laws |
| May 12, 1969 (special) | Mabel Frances Timlin | Doctor of Laws |
| May 12, 1969 (special) | David Mortimer Baltzan | Doctor of Laws |
| May 12, 1969 (special) | George Malcolm Brown | Doctor of Laws |
| May 13, 1969 (special) | Margaret Newton | Doctor of Laws |
| May 13, 1969 (special) | William George Schneider | Doctor of Laws |
| May 16, 1969 | Max Ferguson | Doctor of Laws |
| May 16, 1969 | Charles Morely Willoughby | Doctor of Laws |
| October 25, 1969 | Henry Janzen | Doctor of Laws |
| November 1, 1969 | Gilbert D. Eamer | Doctor of Laws |
| November 1, 1969 | George Jasper Wherrett | Doctor of Laws |
| May 11, 1970 | Rodger James Manning | Doctor of Laws |
| May 11, 1970 | Henry Bruce Chown | Doctor of Laws |
| May 12, 1970 | Harold Charles Moss | Doctor of Laws |
| May 15, 1970 | Fred G. Bard | |
| May 15, 1970 | Roger Gaudry | |
| October 24, 1970 | R. D. Symons | Doctor of Laws |
| November 7, 1970 | Robert Broughton Bryce | Doctor of Laws |
| May 13, 1971 | Alfred Joseph Casson | Doctor of Laws |
| May 13, 1971 | Kenneth Frank Wells | Doctor of Laws |
| May 14, 1971 | Harry Stewart Hay | Doctor of Laws |
| May 21, 1971 | H.C. Andrews | |
| May 21, 1971 | Charles W. Gibbings | |
| October 23, 1971 | Hilda Neatby | Doctor of Laws |
| November 6, 1971 | Richard St. Barbe Baker | Doctor of Laws |
| May 26, 1972 | Lewis H. Thomas | |
| May 26, 1972 | W. O. Mitchell | |
| May 29, 1972 | Frances Jean Hyland | Doctor of Laws |
| May 29, 1972 | Allan Tubby | Doctor of Laws |
| May 30, 1972 | Ernest Lindner | Doctor of Laws |
| October 21, 1972 | Irene Salemka | Doctor of Laws |
| October 28, 1972 | William Gordon McIntosh | Doctor of Laws |
| May 17, 1973 | Elsie Mabel Hart | Doctor of Laws |
| May 17, 1973 | Murray Llewellyn Barr | Doctor of Laws |
| May 18, 1973 | George Ignatieff | Doctor of Laws |
| May 25, 1973 | Wallace E. Stegner | |
| May 25, 1973 | J. Wilfrid Tait | |
| October 20, 1973 | William Andrew (Bill) Riddell | Doctor of Laws |
| October 27, 1973 | Henry Taube | Doctor of Laws |
| May 16, 1974 | John Walter Grant MacEwan | Doctor of Laws |
| May 16, 1974 | George Shepherd | Doctor of Laws |
| May 17, 1974 | Leslie Hamilton Neatby | Doctor of Laws |
| May 24, 1974 | Most Reverend Michael Cornelius O'Neill | Doctor of Laws |
| May 24, 1974 | Bernard Amtmann | Doctor of Laws |
| May 24, 1974 | John Hewgill Brockelbank | |
| October 26, 1974 | Alfred William Rooke Carrothers | Doctor of Laws |
| May 15, 1975 | Harold Randall Griffith | Doctor of Laws |
| May 15, 1975 | Neil Barron Hutcheon | Doctor of Laws |
| May 16, 1975 | Balfour Watson Currie | Doctor of Laws |
| October 25, 1975 | Graham Westbrook Rowley | Doctor of Laws |
| May 20, 1976 | Herman Harvey Ferns | Doctor of Laws |
| May 20, 1976 | Euphemia Jane Thomson | Doctor of Laws |
| May 20, 1976 | Leonard Hylary Shebeski | Doctor of Laws |
| October 30, 1976 | Jacob Michael Goldenberg | Doctor of Laws |
| May 19, 1977 | Senator Paul Yuzyk | Doctor of Laws |
| May 19, 1977 | Helen Constance Hnatyshyn | Doctor of Laws |
| May 19, 1977 | Alastair Graham Walter Cameron | Doctor of Laws |
| October 15, 1977 (special) | William J. Dolan | Doctor of Laws |
| October 15, 1977 (special) | Ray Francis Ethelred Harvey | Doctor of Laws |
| October 15, 1977 (special) | Robert Basil Howsam | Doctor of Laws |
| October 22, 1977 | Alexander McInnes Runciman | Doctor of Laws |
| May 18, 1978 | Honorable William Gwunne Davies | Doctor of Laws |
| May 18, 1978 | William Burton Tufts | Doctor of Laws |
| May 18, 1978 | The Honorable Mr. Justice Robert George Brian Dickson | Doctor of Laws |
| October 28, 1978 | Albert Wesley Johnson | Doctor of Laws |
| May 17, 1979 | Boyd Maynard Anderson | Doctor of Laws |
| May 17, 1979 | Colonel Robert Laird Houston | Doctor of Laws |
| May 18, 1979 | Max Milner | Doctor of Laws |
| June 2, 1979 (special) | Arthur George Cuthbert Whalley | Doctor of Literature |
| June 2, 1979 (special) | Amartya Kumar Sen | Doctor of Literature |
| June 2, 1979 (special) | Sir Moses I. Finley | Doctor of Literature |
| June 2, 1979 (special) | Jean Sutherland Boggs | Doctor of Literature |
| October 27, 1979 | Isabel George Auld | Doctor of Laws |
| May 15, 1980 | His Excellency, Archbishop Maurice Baudoux | Doctor of Laws |
| May 15, 1980 | George Henry Morris | Doctor of Laws |
| May 16, 1980 | Lewis Leroy Lloyd | Doctor of Laws |
| October 25, 1980 | Harry Cecil Rowsell | Doctor of Laws |
| May 14, 1981 | Gordon South | Doctor of Laws |
| May 14, 1981 | Robert William Begg | Doctor of Laws |
| October 24, 1981 | Douglas Charles Blood | Doctor of Laws |
| October 24, 1981 | Jack Young McFaull | Doctor of Laws |
| May 20, 1982 | William Leslie Kerr | Doctor of Laws |
| May 20, 1982 | Ariel Franklin Sallows | Doctor of Laws |
| May 20, 1982 | Jean Gesner Steer | Doctor of Laws |
| May 20, 1982 | Senator Sidney L. Buckwold | Doctor of Laws |
| May 19, 1983 | Albert John Porter | Doctor of Laws |
| May 19, 1983 | Susanna June Menzies | Doctor of Laws |
| May 19, 1983 | Charles Stuart Mitchell | Doctor of Laws |
| October 22, 1983 | Bryan R. Clarke | Doctor of Laws |
| October 23, 1983 | Leon Edel | Doctor of Literature |
| October 23, 1983 | Daryl Kenneth Seaman | Doctor of Laws |
| May 17, 1984 | Clayton O. Person | Doctor of Science |
| May 17, 1984 | Harry Emmet Gunning | Doctor of Laws |
| May 17, 1984 | Hughette Labelle | Doctor of Laws |
| September 28, 1984 (special) | Murray Adaskin | Doctor of Laws |
| September 28, 1984 (special) | Jessie Caldwell | Doctor of Laws |
| September 28, 1984 (special) | The Honorable Willard Zebedee Estey | Doctor of Laws |
| September 28, 1984 (special) | John Lentis Stoik | Doctor of Laws |
| September 28, 1984 (special) | The Honorable Stephen Worobetz | Doctor of Laws |
| September 28, 1984 (special) | William Harold Horner | Doctor of Laws |
| October 27, 1984 | Edward Stamp | Doctor of Laws |
| May 16, 1985 | Robert Merton Love | Doctor of Laws |
| May 16, 1985 | Honorable Thomas R. Berger | Doctor of Laws |
| May 16, 1985 | Donald B. Sealey | Doctor of Laws |
| October 26, 1985 | Robert L. Rausch | Doctor of Laws |
| May 16, 1986 | Stanley Arthur Barber | Doctor of Laws |
| May 16, 1986 | Yu San Wu | Doctor of Laws |
| May 16, 1986 | Father James Kelsey McConica | Doctor of Laws |
| May 16, 1986 | William Howard Feindel | Doctor of Laws |
| October 25, 1986 | Stephen Henry Lewis | Doctor of Laws |
| May 20, 1987 | Robert Patrick Knowles | Doctor of Laws |
| May 20, 1987 | Raymond Moriyama | Doctor of Laws |
| May 20, 1987 | Walter Podiluk | Doctor of Laws |
| October 24, 1987 | Tom Paulin | Doctor of Literature |
| October 24, 1987 | John Victor Hicks | Doctor of Literature |
| May 25, 1988 | Lily Mary Turnbull | Doctor of Laws |
| May 25, 1988 | James William McNeil | Doctor of Laws |
| May 26, 1988 | Clifford Emerson Wright | Doctor of Laws |
| May 26, 1988 | Frederick James Gathercole | Doctor of Laws |
| October 22, 1988 | Margaret Gillett | Doctor of Laws |
| May 24, 1989 | Chief Justice Edward Dmytro Bayda | Doctor of Laws |
| May 25, 1989 | Edward Kerr Turner | Doctor of Laws |
| May 25, 1989 | Peter Anthony Larkin | Doctor of Laws |
| October 21, 1989 | Marguerite A. Gallaway | Doctor of Laws |
| May 23, 1990 | His Excellency, the Right Honourable Ramon John Hnatyshyn | Doctor of Laws |
| May 23, 1990 | Norman Ward | Doctor of Laws |
| May 23, 1990 | J. Balfour Kirkpatrick | Doctor of Laws |
| May 23, 1990 | Leon Katz | Doctor of Laws |
| October 27, 1990 | John William Tranter Spinks | Doctor of Laws |
| May 22, 1991 | Albert George Ayers | Doctor of Laws |
| May 23, 1991 | James Edward (Ted) Newall | Doctor of Laws |
| May 23, 1991 | Tan Sri, Datuk Wira Abdul Rahman Arshad | Doctor of Laws |
| October 26, 1991 | Zdenek Matejcek | Doctor of Laws |
| May 20, 1992 | Thomas McLeod | Doctor of Laws |
| May 21, 1992 | The Honourable Bertha Wilson | Doctor of Laws |
| October 24, 1992 | Byron J. Seaman | Doctor of Science |
| May 26, 1993 | Jack Alexander McPhedran | Doctor of Laws |
| May 27, 1993 | Raymond Urgel Lemieux | Doctor of Science |
| May 28, 1993 | Francis J. Zillinsky | Doctor of Laws |
| October 23, 1993 | Edith Child Rowles Simpson | Doctor of Laws |
| May 24, 1994 | Richard Keith Downey | Doctor of Science |
| May 25, 1994 | Elizabeth V. Dowdeswell | Doctor of Laws |
| May 26, 1994 | Fernand Ouellet | Doctor of Letters |
| October 22, 1994 | Charles E. Childers | Doctor of Laws |
| May 23, 1995 | The Honorable Allan E. Blakeney | Doctor of Laws |
| May 24, 1995 | Harold P. Milavsky | Doctor of Laws |
| May 25, 1995 | Ernest Mike | Doctor of Laws |
| May 25, 1995 | Daniel Musqua | Doctor of Laws |
| October 28, 1995 | Bertha Swirles (Lady Jeffreys) | Doctor of Science |
| October 28, 1995 | Robert Allen Kilpatrick | Doctor of Laws |
| May 21, 1996 | Eric Peterson | Doctor of Letters |
| May 22, 1996 | Russell Kisby | Doctor of Laws |
| May 23, 1996 | A. Wayne Clifton | Doctor of Science |
| June 27, 1996 (special) | Erica-Irene Daes | Doctor of Laws |
| June 27, 1996 (special) | Ambassador Ted Moses | Doctor of Laws |
| June 27, 1996 (special) | Ribogerta Menchu Tum | Doctor of Laws |
| October 26, 1996 | Niels Ole Nielsen | Doctor of Laws |
| April 3, 1997 (special) | Freda Ahenakew | Doctor of Laws |
| April 3, 1997 (special) | Marketa Newman | Doctor of Laws |
| April 3, 1997 (special) | Gordon Wallace (Scotty) Cameron | Doctor of Laws |
| April 3, 1997 (special) | David Richard Olson | Doctor of Laws |
| April 3, 1997 (special) | Stepan S. Kostyshyn | Doctor of Laws |
| April 3, 1997 (special) | Herbert Charles Pinder | Doctor of Laws |
| April 3, 1997 (special) | Walter Oscar Kupsch | Doctor of Laws |
| April 3, 1997 (special) | Elvie Laurence Smith | Doctor of Science |
| April 3, 1997 (special) | Guy Clarence Vanderhaeghe | Doctor of Letters |
| May 20, 1997 | Joo Ho Kim | Doctor of Laws |
| May 21, 1997 | Gordon G. Thiessen | Doctor of Laws |
| May 22, 1997 | Robert L. Elliott | Doctor of Laws |
| October 25, 1997 | Desmond J. Conacher | Doctor of Letters |
| May 19, 1998 | Sharon Capeling-Alakija | Doctor of Laws |
| May 20, 1998 | William (Bill) G. Shurniak | Doctor of Laws |
| October 24, 1998 | Blaine Adrian Holmlund | Doctor of Laws |
| May 25, 1999 | William Glen Elliot Caldwell | Doctor of Science |
| May 26, 1999 | Raymond O. Heimbecker | Doctor of Science |
| October 23, 1999 | William A.G. Graham | Doctor of Science |
| May 24, 2000 | Richard L. Ehman | Doctor of Science |
| May 24, 2000 | Stuart A. Thiesson | Doctor of Laws |
| May 25, 2000 | Glen Michael Farrell | Doctor of Laws |
| October 21, 2000 | Thomas J. Courchene | Doctor of Laws |
| May 30, 2001 | Henry Woolf | Doctor of Laws |
| May 30, 2001 | Donald J. Listwin | Doctor of Laws |
| May 31, 2001 | Margaret W. Thompson | Doctor of Laws |
| May 29, 2002 | Alan C. Cairns | Doctor of Laws |
| May 29, 2002 | Peggy McKercher | Doctor of Laws |
| May 29, 2002 | Diane Jones Konihowski | Doctor of Laws |
| October 26, 2002 | Barrie Wigmore | Doctor of Laws |
| May 28, 2003 | Buffy Sainte-Marie | Doctor of Letters |
| May 28, 2003 | Bernard M. Michel | Doctor of Laws |
| May 29, 2003 | Douglas Baldwin | Doctor of Laws |
| October 25, 2003 | Catriona Le May Doan | Doctor of Laws |
| May 26, 2004 | Dafydd (Dave) Rhys Williams | Doctor of Laws |
| May 27, 2004 | Marcel (Marc) Baltzan | Doctor of Science |
| October 23, 2004 | Sharon Butala | Doctor of Letters |
| May 25, 2005 | Allan Fotheringham | Doctor of Letters |
| May 26, 2005 | John Francis Roy | Doctor of Science |
| October 22, 2005 | Martha Piper | Doctor of Laws |
| May 23, 2006 | Honorable Sylvia Olga Fedoruk | Doctor of Laws |
| May 23, 2006 | Jimmy Myo | Doctor of Laws |
| May 23, 2006 | Nik Semenoff | Doctor of Letters |
| May 23, 2006 | Lotfi A. Zadeh | Doctor of Science |
| October 28, 2006 | Martha Blum | Doctor of Letters |
| October 28, 2006 | Menard Gertler | Doctor of Science |
| June 4, 2007 | Romeo A. Dallaire | Doctor of Laws |
| June 5, 2007 | Irene Dubé | Doctor of Laws |
| June 5, 2007 | Leslie David Dubé | Doctor of Laws |
| June 5, 2007 | Calvin R. Stiller | Doctor of Science |
| June 6, 2007 | Lorna Crozier | Doctor of Letters |
| June 6, 2007 | Harold (Hal) Wyatt | Doctor of Laws |
| October 27, 2007 | Roy Romanow | Doctor of Laws |
| May 27, 2008 | Dr. Michael Shaw | Doctor of Science |
| May 28, 2008 | Dr. H. Douglas Barber | Doctor of Science |
| May 29, 2008 | Dr. James (Jim) Edgar Till | Doctor of Science |
| October 25, 2008 | Prof. Paul-André Crépeau | Doctor of Laws |
| May 26, 2009 | W. Thomas Molloy | Doctor of Laws |
| May 28, 2009 | Kevin G. Lynch | Doctor of Laws |
| May 28, 2009 | Hugo Lennart Nordh | Doctor of Science |
| October 31, 2009 | William J. Doyle | Doctor of Laws |
| June 1, 2010 | Ian E. Wilson | Doctor of Letters |
| June 1, 2010 | Margaret (Kesserling) Weiers | Doctor of Letters |
| June 2, 2010 | Dennis Skopik | Doctor of Science |
| June 3, 2010 | Gordon "Gordie" Howe | Doctor of Laws |
| October 23, 2010 | Angela Hewitt | Doctor of Letters |
| May 31, 2011 | N. Murray Edwards | Doctor of Laws |
| June 2, 2011 | The Honorable Edward (Ted) Hughes | Doctor of Laws |
| June 2, 2011 | Helen Hughes | Doctor of Laws |
| June 2, 2011 | Mladen Vranic | Doctor of Science |
| October 22, 2011 | Desmond Morton | Doctor of Letters |
| June 5, 2012 | Wayne Wouters | Doctor of Laws |
| June 5, 2012 | Joe Fafard | Doctor of Letters |
| June 6, 2012 | Arthur Dumont | Doctor of Laws |
| June 6, 2012 | Blaine Christopher Flavel | Doctor of Laws |
| June 8, 2012 | Ronald DePauw | Doctor of Science |
| October 27, 2012 | Douglas Cardinal | Doctor of Letters |
Coverage: May 1, 1919 to October 27, 2012; 429 names