Humane Canada’s Frederic A. McGrand Award
The award is named after the late Senator Frederic A. McGrand, a founding director and past president of Humane Canada. Throughout his life, the Senator recognized and advocated respect for all life. He left an important and ongoing philosophical legacy to the animal welfare movement and also established a charitable trust that continues to benefit humane societies and SPCAs in Atlantic Canada.
Please note that the Frederic A. McGrand Lifetime Achievement Award was not presented in 2018.
The 2017 Frederic A. McGrand Lifetime Achievement Award winner: Dr. David Suzuki!

Dr. David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and the co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. He is Companion to the Order of Canada and a recipient of UNESCO’s Kalinga Prize for science, the United Nations Environment Program medal, the 2012 Inamori Ethics Prize, the 2009 Right Livelihood Award and UNEP’s Global 500. Dr. Suzuki is Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and holds 29 honorary degrees from universities around the world.
He is familiar to television audiences as host of the CBC science and natural history television series The Nature of Things, and to radio audiences as the original host of CBC Radio’s Quirks and Quarks, as well as the acclaimed series It’s a Matter of Survival and From Naked Ape to Superspecies. In 1990, he co-founded The David Suzuki Foundation with Dr. Tara Cullis to collaborate with Canadians from all walks of life, including government and business, to conserve our environment and find solutions that will create a sustainable Canada through science-based research, education and policy work.
His written work includes more than 55 books, 19 of them for children. Dr. Suzuki lives with his wife and family in Vancouver, BC.
Created in 1985, the prestigious Humane Canada Frederic A. McGrand Award recognizes individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to animal welfare in Canada. Past winners include wildlife rehabilitation pioneers Kay and Larry McKeever, animal welfare advocate and veterinarian Dr. Carol Morgan, farm animal welfare champions Tom and Sharon van Milligen, among many others.
Past winners of the Humane Canada Frederic A. McGrand Award
The Frederic A. McGrand Lifetime Achievement Award has been given out on a semi-annual basis since 1985. Here are the past winners:
Dr. David Suzuki
Vancouver BC
Dr. David Fraser
Vancouver BC
Rob Laidlaw
Toronto ON
Dr. Carol Morgan
Malahat BC
Carol Baird
Exploits Valley NL
Cathy Thomas
Calgary AB
Pat LeGrow
Cornwall PE
Joy Ripley
Calgary AB
Dr. Alice Crook
Charlottetown PE
Mary L. Driscoll
Calgary AB
E. Jean
Mercer NL
Marjorie Ignatieff
Ottawa ON
Eleanor Dawson
Winnipeg MB
Robert Gardiner
Gormley ON
Stephanie Brown
Toronto ON
Deborah Powers
St. John’s NL
Sandra Bond
Winnipeg MB
Stuart Rammage
Penticton BC
Hilda Smith
St. John’s NL
Tom and Sharon van Milligen
Bridgewater NS
Dr. Denna Benn
Guelph ON
Joan Clark
Montreal QC
Muriel Plamandon
Quebec City QC
Molly Hardy
Winnipeg MB
Constance Hoover
Moncton NB
Philip Baines (posthumously)
Saskatoon SK
Kay and Larry McKeever
Vineland ON
Norman Nunn
Ottawa ON
Marjorie Wright
North Bay ON
Senator F.A. McGrand
Fredericton and Ottawa