Medal of Good Citizenship recipients

Last updated on April 29, 2025

British Columbia recognizes outstanding citizens with the Medal of Good Citizenship for their contributions to their communities without expectation of remuneration or reward. The medal reflects their generosity, service, acts of selflessness and contributions to community life.

Read the latest Medal of Good Citizenship announcements.

View all past honours and recipients.

Medal of Good Citizenship ceremonies


2024 Recipients

Picture of Lousie Allen - BC Medal of Good Citizenship recipient

Lousie Allen
City:  Vancouver

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Dr. Helen Campbell
City:   Saanich

picture of Janice Dallaire - BC Medal of Good Citizenship recipient

Janicé Dallaire
City:  Invermere

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Mary Daniel
City:  Vancouver

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Rabiah Dhaliwal
City:   Surrey

picture of Dale Douglas - BC Medal of Good Citizenship recipient

Dale Douglas
City:  Saanich

Picture of Bill Erving - BC Medal of Good Citizenship recipient

Bill Erving
City:  Saanich

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Donna Furneaux
City:  Qualicum Beach

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Stephen Hamilton
City:  Prince George

Picture of Matthew Heneghan - BC Medal of Good Citizenship recipient

Matthew Heneghan
City:  Falkland

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Jim Kojima, CM
City:  Richmond

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Christopher Lee
City:  Vancouver

Picture of Reihaneh Mirjani - BC Medal of Good Citizenship recipient

Reihaneh Mirjani
City:  Coquitlam

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Margaret Mubanda
City:  Surrey

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Lawrence Napier
City:  Mackenzie

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Thelma Rodriguez
City:  Pitt Meadows

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Carla Stephenson
City:   Ymir

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Murray Stewart
City:  Saanich


List of all recipients

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Year First Name Last Name Region City
2015 John Phare *(posthumous) Mainland/Southwest Roberts Creek
2016 Trudie BonBernard Thompson/Okanagan Kamloops
2016 The People of Ahousaht First Nation Community   Vancouver Island/Coast Ahousaht
2016 Nicholas Marsden Vancouver Island/Coast Victoria
2016 Judith Armstrong Vancouver Island/Coast Victoria
2016 Bud Abbott Kootenay Cranbrook
2016 Dave Dickson Cariboo Williams Lake
2016 Clayton Cassidy* Thompson/Okanagan Cache Creek
2016 Ray Abernethy Mainland/Southwest Burnaby
2016 Richard W. Bergen Cariboo Forest Grove
2016 Marilyn Rushton Burnaby  
2016 Abbe Gates Mainland/Southwest Burnaby
2016 Dylan Van Rooyen Mainland/Southwest Surrey
2016 Patricia Housty Northern BC Bella Bella
2016 John Simpson Mainland/Southwest Chilliwack
2016 John Scott Northern BC Prince George
2016 Dave Holmberg Mainland/Southwest Abbotsford
2016 Kevin England Mainland/Southwest Vancouver
2016 Joan LeMoine Vancouver Island/Coast Parksville
2016 Marion Sallenbach Thompson/Okanagan Winfield
2016 Troy Becker Thompson/Okanagan West Kelowna
2016 Kamal Dhillon Mainland/Southwest Langley
2016 Lita Salanski *(posthumous) Kootenay Grasmere
2017 Ken Ryan Mainland/Southwest Burnaby
2017 Daniel Brown Vancouver Island/Coast Campbell River
2017 Chad Farquharson Mainland/Southwest Surrey
2017 Terry Nichols Northern BC Quesnel
2017 Peter Lawless Vancouver Island/Coast Victoria
2017 Terry Yung Mainland/Southwest Vancouver
2017 Lorna Gibbs Mainland/Southwest Vancouver
2017 Edwin Findlater Thompson/Okanagan Okanagan Falls
2017 Wayne McGill Mainland/Southwest Surrey
2017 Lou Ryan Mainland/Southwest Burnaby
2017 Patrick Ashton Kootenay Slocan
2017 Michal Smialowski Cariboo Tatlayoko
2017 Joann Gabriel Thompson/Okanagan Princeton
2017 Paul Nichols Northern BC Quesnel
2017 W.A. "Sandy" Burpee Mainland/Southwest Coquitlam
2017 Sahib Thind Mainland/Southwest Surrey
2017 Larry White Northern BC Tumbler Ridge
2018 Beth Laur Vancouver Island/Coast Victoria
2018 Brandon Laur Vancouver Island/Coast Victoria
2018 Darren Laur Vancouver Island/Coast Victoria
2018 Michael Langridge Vancouver Island/Coast Victoria
2018 Kris Patterson Vancouver Island/Coast Port Alberni
2018 Sylvie Silvakantie Pather Mainland/Southwest North Vancouver
2018 Shawna Narayan Mainland/Southwest Surrey
2018 Lois Nahirney Mainland/Southwest North Vancouver
2018 Peggy Lee Mainland/Southwest North Vancouver
2018 Alberta "Wadzeed" Billy Vancouver Island/Coast Quathiaski Cove
2018 Stan McCarthy* Cariboo 150 Mile House
2018 Ronald Allen Greene Vancouver Island/Coast Victoria
2018 Selen Alpay Cariboo Prince George
2018 Joan "Bays" H. Blackhall  *(posthumous) Mainland/Southwest Langley
2018 Suzanne Bolton Mainland/Southwest Vancouver
2018 Edward S. Dickins Thompson/Okanagan Kelowna
2018 Stephanie Fischer Kootenay Nelson
2018 Fran Fowler Northern BC Queen Charlotte
2018 Joyce Fraser Thompson/Okanagan Princeton
2019 Vivian Tsang Mainland/Southwest Vancouver
2019 Thomas Wilfrid Smithwick Thompson/Okanagan Kelowna
2019 Jack Hutton Vancouver Island/Coast Duncan
2019 John Cameron Mainland/Southwest Richmond
2019 Adrienne Montani Mainland/Southwest Vancouver
2019 Bruce Curtis Vancouver Island/Coast Courtenay
2019 Dr. Peter Newbery Northern BC New Hazelton
2019 Joseph Roberts Mainland/Southwest Township of Langley
2019 Louis Thomas Thompson/Okanagan Salmon Arm
2019 Patricia Roy Vancouver Island/Coast Victoria
2019 Chief M. Jason Louie Kootenay Creston
2019 Joe Average Mainland/Southwest Vancouver
2019 Michelle Renee Wilson Mainland/Southwest Delta
2019 Shirley Gratton Cariboo Keremeos
2019 Patricia Shields Mainland/Southwest Vancouver
2019 Charlotte Brady Vancouver Island/Coast Victoria
2019 Anastasia Castro Vancouver Island/Coast Victoria
2019 Neil Cook Kootenay Cranbrook
2020 Zeeshan Hayat Mainland/Southwest Vancouver
2020 Fawzan Hussain Mainland/Southwest Surrey
2020 Kristi Blakeway Mainland/Southwest Maple Ridge
2020 Gale Stewart Mainland/Southwest New Westminster
2020 Farouq Manji Mainland/Southwest Richmond
2020 Andrew Beckerman Vancouver Island/Coast Victoria
2020 Cara Sinclair Mainland/Southwest Vancouver
2020 Irene Bischler Kootenay Cranbrook
2020 Donna Kane Northern BC Rolla
2020 Imogene Lim Vancouver Island/Coast Nanaimo
2020 Robert McMinn Vancouver Island/Coast Victoria
2020 Stephanie Quon Mainland/Southwest Vancouver
2020 Cole Izsak Mainland/Southwest Surrey
2020 George Conrad Reifel Mainland/Southwest Vancouver
2021 Song Hu Vancouver Island/Coast Victoria
2021 Gayle Ireland Vancouver Island/Coast Victoria
2021 Jasper Doyle Catcheside Johnston Vancouver Island/Coast Vancouver
2021 Renée Katz Mainland/Southwest Vancouver
2021 Aditi Kini Mainland/Southwest Surrey
2021 Esther Lang Thompson/Okanagan Ashcroft
2021 James Lester Mainland/Southwest North Vancouver
2021 Ping Li Mainland/Southwest Vancouver
2021 Beverly Lore Northern BC Port Clements
2021 Amber Price Mainland/Southwest Chilliwack
2021 Jonathan Yeung Mainland/Southwest West Vancouver
2021 Spencer van Vloten Mainland/Southwest Vancouver
2021 Isabelle Tang Mainland/Southwest Richmond
2021 David Horton Cariboo Prince George
2021 Rachel Staples Vancouver Island/Coast Victoria
2021 Steven Ngo Mainland/Southwest Burnaby
2021 Natalia Skapski Mainland/Southwest North Vancouver
2021 Jeffery McLellan Mainland/Southwest Port Moody
2021 Leon Ng Mainland/Southwest Vancouver
2021 Stan Shaw Mainland/Southwest Vancouver
2021 Niis Miou Mainland/Southwest Vancouver
2021 Robert Cruickshank Mainland/Southwest Vancouver
2021 Christopher Horner Northern BC Masset
2021 Rory Richards Mainland/Southwest Vancouver
2021 Daniel Brown Mainland/Southwest Vancouver
2021 Greg Ehman Thompson/Okanagan Leduc
2021 Aysha Luena Johnston Emmerson Vancouver Island/Coast Cambridge
2021 Gambier Grocery Group   Mainland/Southwest Gambier Island
2021 Lori Girard Mainland/Southwest Pitt Meadows
2021 Amber Gregory Mainland/Southwest Coquitlam
2021 Bonnie Henry Vancouver Island/Coast Victoria
2021 Kendall Ho Mainland/Southwest Vancouver
2022 Rishika Selvakumar Mainland/Southwest Richmond
2022 Rachel Dong Mainland/Southwest Vancouver
2022 Bob Burrows Mainland/Southwest Vancouver
2022 Landon Douglas Brown Mainland/Southwest North Vancouver
2022 Debra Arnott Thompson/Okanagan Cache Creek
2022 Karen Hira Vancouver Island/Coast Victoria
2022 Andrei Marti Vancouver Island/Coast Saanichton
2022 Barry English Northern BC Terrace
2022 Winston Sayson Mainland/Southwest Richmond
2022 Shannon Fisher Kootenay Cranbrook
2022 Farhad (Fred) Soofi Mainland/Southwest Port Moody
2022 Chantal Stefan Vancouver Island/Coast Cumberland
2022 Guul Jiit Jaad Mainland/Southwest Vancouver
2022 Jody Woodford Thompson/Okanagan Coalmont
2022 Ronald Rice Vancouver Island/Coast Victoria
2023 Spring Hawes Thompson/Okanagan Kelowna
2023 Ruth Billmann Kootenay Cranbrook
2023 Rhoda Taylor Vancouver Island/Coast Duncan
2023 Gail Elder Kootenay Winlaw
2023 Vivian Edwards Thompson/Okanagan Ashcroft
2023 Jim Sawada Kootenay Nelson
2023 Brian Ironmonger Kootenay Vegreville
2023 Navjit Moore Mainland/Southwest Burnaby
2023 David Reid Mainland/Southwest Squamish
2023 Mohammad Aminul Islam Mainland/Southwest Surrey
2023 Ricky Tsang Mainland/Southwest Vancouver
2023 Parminder Virk Vancouver Island/Coast Saanich
2023 Joyce Bueckert Cariboo 100 Mile House
2023 Vishad Deeplaul Mainland/Southwest Coquitlam
2023 Johannes Mulder Mainland/Southwest Hope
2023 Madison Fleischer Mainland/Southwest Surrey
2023 Tim Cormode Vancouver Island/Coast Victoria
2023 Brian De Beck Mainland/Southwest Vancouver
2023 Craig Evans Vancouver Island/Coast Nanaimo
2023 Talia Lorincz Mainland/Southwest Vancouver
2023 Andrew Tom Northern BC Smithers
2024 William Erving Vancouver Island/Coast Victoria
2024 Yuzuru Kojima Lower Mainland Richmond
2024 Janicé Dallaire Kootenay Invermere
2024 Mary Daniel Mainland Sowthwest Vancouver
2024 Rabiah Dhaliwal Metro Vancouver Surrey
2024 Donna Furneaux Vancouver Island/Coast Qualicum Beach
2024 Stephen Hamilton Cariboo Prince George
2024 Matthew Heneghan Thompson/Okanagan Falkland
2024 Helen Campbell Vancouver Island/Coast Victoria
2024 Christopher Lee Lower Mainland Vancouver
2024 Reihaneh Mirjani Lower Mainland Coquitlam
2024 Margaret Mubanda Mainland/ Southwest Surrey
2024 Dale Douglas Vancouver Island/Coast Victoria
2024 Lawrence Napier Cariboo Mackenzie
2024 Carla Stephenson Kootenay Ymir
2024 Murray Stewart Vancouver Island/Coast Victoria
2024 Louise Allen Metro Vancouver Vancouver
2024 Thelma Rodriguez Mainland/ Southwest Pitt Meadows