The Order of Canada is given in recognition of “a lifetime of outstanding achievement, dedication to the community and service to the nation”. The following people were appointed in the field of Arts/Writing. For more information, visit the official site.

Companion

• Atwood, Margaret
• Berton, Pierre
• Blais, Marie Claire
• Callaghan, Morley
• Choquette, Robert
• Cohen, Leonard
• Davies, Robertson
• Gallant, Mavis
• Grandbois, Alain
• Hébert, Anne
• Laurence, Margaret
• Lemelin, Roger
• MacLennan, Hugh
• Maillet, Antonine
• Martin, Claire
• Page, P.K.
• Richler, Mordecai
• Roy, Gabrielle
• Scott, Francis R.
• Shields, Carol

Officer

• Arès, Richard
• Avison, Margaret
• Barbeau, Victor
• Birney, Earle
• Blaise, Clark
• Bouchard, Michel Marc
• Bourinot, Arthur S.
• Bowering, George
• Brossard, Nicole
• Brown, Audrey A.
• Buckler, Ernest
• Butala, Sharon
• Carrier, Roch
• Campbell, Maria
• Chaurette, Normand
• Chiasson, Herménégilde
• Clarke, George Elliott
• Cousture, Arlette
• Crozier, Lorna
• Danis, Lucille
• Desrochers, Alfred
• Dorion, Hélène
• Dubé, Marcel
• Dubois, René-Daniel
• Dudek, Louis
• Engel, Marian
• Findley, Timothy
• Grignon, Claude-Henri
• Grosskurth, Phyllis
• Hébert, Jacques
• Hood, Hugh
• Houston, James A.
• Huston, Nancy
• Hutchison, W. Bruce
• Jones, Douglas Gordon (D.G.)
• Kattan, Naïm
• Kinsella, W.P.
• Klinck, Carl
• Kreisel, Henry
• Kroetsch, Robert P.
• Langevin, André
• Layton, Irving
• Le Moyne, Jean
• Lee, Dennis
• LePan, Douglas V.
• Livesay, Dorothy
• MacLeod, Alistair
• Maillet, Andrée
• Marion, Séraphin
• Melançon, Claude
• Mighton, John
• Mitchell, W.O.
• Morency, Pierre
• Mouawad, Wajdi
• Mowat, Farley
• Murrell, John
• Ondaatje, Michael
• Pilon, Jean-Guy
• Plamondon, Luc
• Pollock, Sharon
• Poznanska-Parizeau, Alice
• Purdy, Al
• Raddall, Thomas H.
• Reaney, James
• Savard, Félix Antoine
• Schull, Joseph
• Souster, Raymond
• Thériault, Yves
• Thomas, Audrey
• Thompson, Judith Clare
• Urquhart, Jane
• Vanderhaeghe, Guy
• Webb, Phyllis
• Wiebe, Rudy
• Wilson, Ethel
• Wyczynski, Paul

Member

• Alonzo, Anne-Marie
• Barnes, Michael
• Barkhouse, Joyce
• Birdsell, Sandra
• Bizier, Hélène-Andrée
• Blackburn, George G.
• Blaser, Robin
• Bosco, Monique
• Bouchard, David
• Bourgeois, Paulette
• Brewster, Elizabeth
• Broadfoot, Barry
• Brouillet, Chrystine
• Bruemmer, Fred
• Campbell, Marjorie (Elliott) Wilkin
• Carson, Anne
• Choy, Wayson
• Clark, Joan
• Clarke, Austin
• Cogswell, Fred
• Colombo, John Robert
• Demers, Dominique
• de Villiers, Marq
• Déziel, Julien
• de Volpi, Charles P.
• Eber, Dorothy Harley
• Engel, Howard
• Fischman, Sheila
• Fournier, Guy
• Gatenby, Gregory Francis
• Gibson, Graeme
• Gowdy, Barbara
• Gray, Charlotte
• Gray, James H.
• Gustafson, Ralph Barker
• Hanson, Ann Meekitjuk
• Harris, Christie
• Helwig, David
• Hiebert, Paul G.
• Hill, Kathleen Louise
• Hodgins, Jack Stanley
• Holden, Hélène Papachristidis
• Hollingshead, Greg
• Horwood, Harold
• Hughes, Monica
• Hunter, Bernice Thurman
• Ingersoll, Lincoln Keith
• Issenman, Betty Kobayashi
• Itani, Frances
• Joe, Rita
• Jomphe, Roland
• Kilbourn, William Morley
• King, Thomas
• Kogawa, Joy
• LeBouthillier, Claude
• Lee, Alma
• Lescop, Marguerite
• Little, Jean
• Lunn, Janet Louise
• MacGregor, James G.
• Maheux-Forcier, Louise
• Marlatt, Daphne B.
• McKay, Don
• Metcalf, John
• Miki, Roy
• Mitchell, Kenneth Ronald
• Morgan, Bernice
• Munsch, Robert N.
• Nicol, Eric
• O'Neil, Jean
• Pallascio-Morin, Jean-Louis Ernest
• Piché, Alphonse
• Poliquin, Daniel
• Portugal, Jean E.
• Powell, Benjamin Windsor
• Rekai, Kati
• Richards, David Adams
• Robertson, Marion
• Rooke, Leon
• Ross, Sinclair
• Rule, Jane
• Sorestad, Glen
• Skvorecky, Josef
• Smith, Steve
• Staebler, Edna
• Stetson, Kent
• Théoret, France
• Toye, William
• Vassanji, M.G.
• Walker, David
• Walker, George F.
• White, Howard
• Wilson, Budge
• Wright, Esther Clark
• Wright, Richard B.
• Wylie, Betty Jane