CAA Allan Sangster Award

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Honouring Long and Meritorious Service

Award History | Entry Information | Winners

History

Annually since 1968 the CAA has honoured one of its members for long and meritorious service.

This award is in memory of Allan S. Sangster, a CBC producer, especially in the realm of classical music, who had a particular interest in the field of Canadian writing.

He was urged to accept the National Presidency but felt he could not spare the time this office deserved and remained Vice-President for Ontario until his untimely death in 1967.

Originally, the award consisted of a stylized owl motif cast in black iron by a Winnipeg sculptor discovered by the National President at the time, Vinia Hoogstraten. In 1973, her husband Neil was invited to submit a variation on this theme for the Association's re-instituted silver medal (1975). In time it became the logo of the whole CAA.

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Entry Information

The most recent winner of the Allan Sangster Award is responsible for arranging a secret vote by all former CAA member recipients (those still living and still CAA members) to choose the next winner and making the presentation at the conclusion of the annual Awards Dinner. This award may be won only once by an individual.

No other nominations are accepted.

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CAA Allan Sangster Award Winners

  • 1968 W.G. Hardy
  • 1969 Lyn Harrington
  • 1970 Don & Terry Thomson
  • 1971 John Patrick Gillese
  • 1972 Vinia Hoogstraten
  • 1973 Joe Holliday
  • 1974 H.R. Percy
  • 1975 Dorothy Powell
  • 1976 Carol Wilson
  • 1977 Isabel Reimer
  • 1978 Will R. Bird
  • 1979 Max Goldin
  • 1980 Mary Dawe
  • 1981 Cdr. C.H. Little
  • 1982 Fred Kerner
  • 1983 Rosemary Bauchman
  • 1984 Betty Millway
  • 1985 James Fritch
  • 1986 Betty Dyck
  • 1987 Anne Osborne
  • 1988 Anne Fairley
  • 1989 Murphy Shewchuk
  • 1990 Cora Taylor
  • 1991 Don Wetmore
  • 1992 Gillian Foss
  • 1993 Kevin Longfield
  • 1994 Jeffrey Holmes
  • 1995 Doug Waugh
  • 1996 Larry Muller
  • 1997 Eleanor McEachern
  • 1998 Anna Marie Kowalski
  • 1999 Bert Reynolds
  • 2000 Beth Greenwood
  • 2001 Ishbel Moore
  • 2002 Harvey Grossman
  • 2003 Deborah Ranchuk
  • 2004 Bernice Lever
  • 2005 Russ Harvey
  • 2006 Karleen Bradford
  • 2007 Mickey Turnbull
  • 2008 Suzanne Harris
  • 2009 Frank Wade
  • 2010 Walter McConville
  • 2011 Anthony Dalton
  • 2012 Mae Denby

 

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Updated: July 28, 2012