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.

Officer

• Arès, Richard (17 December 1979)
• Avison, Margaret (17 December 1984)
• Barbeau, Victor (26 June 1970)
• Birney, Earle (26 June 1970)
• Bouchard, Michel Marc (29 October 2004)
• Bourinot, Arthur S. (28 June 1968)
• Bowering, George (10 October 2002)
• Brown, Audrey A. (22 December 1967)
• Buckler, Ernest (18 December 1974)
• Butala, Sharon (18 October 2001)
• Carrier, Roch (1 November 1991)
• Chaurette, Normand (29 October 2004)
• Cousture, Arlette (6 May 1998)
• Danis, Lucille (19 December 1969)
• Desrochers, Alfred (4 July 1978)
• Dubé, Marcel (15 November 2000)
• Dubois, René-Daniel (13 May 2004)
• Dudek, Louis (19 December 1983)
• Engel, Marian (20 December 1982)
• Findley, Timothy (23 December 1985)
• Grignon, Claude-Henri (27 June 1969)
• Grosskurth, Phyllis (27 April 2000)
• Hébert, Jacques (11 January 1978)
• Hood, Hugh (11 July 1988)
• Houston, James A. (22 December 1972)
• Huston, Nancy (29 June 2005)
• Hutchison, W. Bruce (6 July 1967)
• Kattan, Naïm (20 June 1983)
• Kinsella, W.P. (22 April 1993)
• Klinck, Carl (17 December 1973)
• Kreisel, Henry (21 December 1987)
• Kroetsch, Robert P. (13 May 2004)
• Langevin, André (15 December 1980)
• Layton, Irving (23 June 1976)
• Le Moyne, Jean (21 June 1982)
• Lee, Dennis (27 October 1993)
• LePan, Douglas V. (21 October 1998)
• Livesay, Dorothy (29 December 1986)
• MacLeod, Alistair (29 June 2007)
• Maillet, Andrée (18 December 1978)
• Marion, Séraphin (23 June 1976)
• Melançon, Claude (20 December 1968)
• Mitchell, W.O. (19 June 1973)
• Morency, Pierre (10 October 2002)
• Mowat, Farley (22 June 1981)
• Murrell, John (10 October 2002)
• Ondaatje, Michael (11 July 1988)
• Pilon, Jean-Guy (29 June 1987)
• Plamondon, Luc (1 May 2002)
• Poznanska-Parizeau, Alice (21 December 1987)
• Purdy, Al (21 June 1982)
• Raddall, Thomas H. (18 December 1970)
• Reaney, James (14 January 1976)
• Savard, Félix Antoine (28 June 1968)
• Schull, Joseph (16 May 1980)
• Souster, Raymond (4 May 1995)
• Thériault, Yves (25 June 1975)
• Thompson, Judith Clare (29 June 2005)
• Urquhart, Jane (29 October 2004)
• Vanderhaeghe, Guy (30 October 2003)
• Webb, Phyllis (30 April 1992)
• Wiebe, Rudy (27 April 2000)
• Wilson, Ethel (18 December 1970)
• Wyczynski, Paul (21 October 1992)

Added 19 June 2006.
Updated 17 September 2007.