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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 22, 2013, Winnipeg, Manitoba C M Y K THE ORDER OF MANITOBA 2012 - Advertising Supplement to the Winnipeg Free Press - Monday, July 22, 2012 www. winnipegfreepress. com David Chartrand, O. M. The longest- serving president of the Manitoba Métis Federation ( MMF), David Chartrand is a champion of Métis rights, governance, social justice, economic and educational issues and has advanced the cause of the Métis Nation at the provincial and national levels. Under his leadership, the MMF successfully challenged Métis land claims in the recent 2013 Supreme Court of Canada decision. Chartrand was first elected MMF president in 1996 and is currently serving his fifth term. Diane Redsky, O. M. Diane Redsky has made significant contributions to improve the lives of women, children and Aboriginal Peoples at the provincial and national levels. A member of Shoal Lake No. 40 First Nation, she has worked in professional and volunteer capacities within the social- service sector to address issues facing Winnipeg’s Aboriginal community in areas of health, justice, education and social services. She has helped to create innovative programs to promote the growth and development of Winnipeg’s urban Aboriginal community, particularly the safety and well- being of women and girls. She is currently the project director for the Canadian Women’s Foundation National Task Force on Human Trafficking of Women and Girls in Canada. Dr. Francis Patrick Doyle, C. M., O. M. During a five- decade career as a physician, Dr. Francis Patrick Doyle has contributed to improvements in health care in Manitoba and across Canada. He was instrumental in creating an entire health- care industry in Ste. Anne including a hospital, a pharmacy and a personal care home. Dr. Doyle was a member of the Manitoba Hospital Commission and president of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba and is a senior member of the Canadian Medical Association. He served as chair of the St. Boniface Hospital board from 1978 to 1988. He is also a member of the Order of Canada. H. Sanford ( Sandy) Riley, C. M., O. M. Sanford ( Sandy) Riley is president and CEO of Richardson Financial Group. A former president and CEO of Investors Group Inc. and partner in the Winnipeg law firm Taylor McCaffrey, he has also served as board chair for the Business Council of Manitoba and The North West Company Fund. In the sports world, he was member of the Canadian Sailing Team and competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics and served as board chair for the 1999 Pan Am Games. Riley was also chancellor of the University of Winnipeg and he and his family have made significant donations to philanthropic causes in Manitoba. He is a member of the Order of Canada. Olga Fuga, C. M., O. M. Through extensive public and volunteer service, Olga Fuga has made an outstanding contribution to both Winnipeg and the Ukrainian- Canadian community. She is a former chair of the Winnipeg School Board and served as a City of Winnipeg councillor from 1971 to 1974. In 1981, her lobbying contributed to the opening of Seven Oaks General Hospital, where she was a founding board member and later board chair. In recent years, she received national recognition for raising public awareness of the tragedy of the Holodomor in the Ukraine and spearheaded a committee which filmed the testimonies of Winnipeg survivors of the famine- genocide. She is also a member of the Order of Canada . Dr. Allan Ronald, O. C., O. M. Dr. Allan Ronald is professor emeritus in the faculty of medicine at the University of Manitoba and was head of the university’s department of internal medicine and physician- in- chief at the Health Sciences Centre. He is internationally respected, particularly in his pioneering work with HIV- AIDS in Africa and under his leadership, the U of M became the pre- eminent national centre for research and training in that field. In 1980, he helped found the U of M/ University of Nairobi World Health Organization Research and Training Program in Sexually Transmitted Diseases, which became an epicentre for research on HIVAIDS in East Africa. In 1987, he convinced the City of Winnipeg to donate land to build the the National Virology Lab which has been essential to the control of epidemics and other diseases. He is currently an advisor to the International Centre for Infectious Diseases and an officer in the Order of Canada. Helen Granger Young, O. M. Helen Granger Young is an internationally- renowned artist whose work has contributed to the cultural and historical fabric of Manitoba and Canada. She has painted or sculpted many prominent Canadians and several of her bronze busts are displayed in the Assiniboine Park Citizen’s Hall of Fame and her statues of LaVerendrye and Father Aulneau grace the St. Boniface Basilica. Her sculpture of Nellie McClung and the Famous Five sits on the Manitoba Legislature grounds. She has works in public and private collections around the world including at Rideau Hall, Buckingham Palace, the White House and the Vatican. The Honourable Richard J. Scott, O. M. Richard J. Scott retired as chief justice of Manitoba in March 2013. Throughout a distinguished career, he made a profound mark on the administration of justice in Manitoba and was a national leader on the subjects of judicial independence, ethical conduct of judges and access to justice. He has held many positions within the legal community including president of the Law Society of Manitoba and was appointed a Queen’s counsel in 1976, was appointed to the Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench in 1985 and subsequently associate chief justice of that court. In 1990, he was appointed chief justice of Manitoba. Scott is a past president of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Manitoba board and member of the Canadian Heart Foundation board. George Nicholos Heshka, O. M. George Heshka has been the principal of Sisler High School, Manitoba’s largest school, for more than three decades. A visionary, inspirational administrator and educator, under his leadership Sisler, one of Canada’s most multicultural schools, was recognized by Maclean’s magazine as the best all- around school in Canada. The school continues to be recognized for its sports and visual and performing- arts programs as well as its many studentled human rights organizations. Heshka has also been recognized for his decades of service to the inner city, including his work to preserve inner- city neighbourhoods. Ray St. Germain, O. M. Ray St. Germain is an award- winning recording artist, performer, producer, author and host of television and radio programs. Since the 1950s, he has made an outstanding contribution to Manitoba in the field of entertainment and the promotion of Métis and Aboriginal culture. Earning the nickname ‘ Winnipeg’s Elvis’, he released his first single in 1959 and later travelled the world and performed with musical legends like Johnny Cash. St. Germain is a Canadian Country Music Hall of Honour inductee and a member of the Aboriginal Order of Canada. Dr. Tse Li Luk, O. M. Dr. Tse Li Luk is a family physician and award- winning photographer whose professional and volunteer work is highly valued in the Chinese- Canadian community and the communityat- large. He was president of medical staff in Vita before joining the Misericordia and Victoria hospitals in Winnipeg in 1997. He is a partner in the Linden Ridge Medical Clinic, a lecturer at the University of Manitoba and on staff at the Pan Am Clinic’s Pain Clinic. He also owns a photographic gallery and donates his time, expertise and photographs to many community and charitable organizations. His work has been exhibited in Canada and abroad and has been presented to The Queen. Miriam Toews, O. M. Miriam Toews is an acclaimed Canadian novelist, humorist and actor of Mennonite descent whose work has garnered international awards. Holding degrees in the arts and journalism, her writing encompasses both fiction and non- fiction in the genres of novel, memoir, magazine, newspaper and radio. Her 2004 breakthrough novel, A Complicated Kindness , won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction. She made her screen debut in the Mexican film Luz silenciosa which won the 2007 Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Eleanor Woitowicz, O. M. Eleanor Woitowicz, a recently retired teacher, was the force behind the establishment of the Mel Johnson School Gardening Project in Wabowden in 2006. In teaching students how to grow their own food, the project has grown to inspire the residents of Wabowden and beyond by demonstrating how Aboriginal communities can contribute to and benefit from sustainability projects. Now emulated by other Manitoba communities, the project has received wide- spread recognition. In 2010, Woitowicz, along with Bonnie Monias and Don McCaskill of the Frontier School Division, was invited to New York to present their project to the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development. B9 The Winnipeg Free Press is thrilled to congratulate all the very deserving recipients of the Order of Manitoba. Bravo! CONGRATULATIONS! 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