Annual Report 2017–2018

Donors and Sponsors

Thank you for your support

The corporation is extremely grateful for the generous contributions of our donors, and for the investments made by our corporate sponsors. Their support is instrumental in helping us achieve our goals for exhibitions, programming and collections development for both the Canadian Museum of History and the Canadian War Museum.

2017–18 Donations and Pledges

This is a list of donors and sponsors who have made financial donations over $250, or pledge installments for major gifts, during the fiscal year. The category in which each donor is listed reflects the value of the gift or pledge installment received in the 2017–18 fiscal year, and does not represent the total gift generously offered to the Museum.

$250,000 to $499,999
The W. Garfield Weston Foundation

$100,000 to $249,999
Brownlee Family Foundation
The Fredrik Eaton Family
John and Elizabeth Irving
Peter Munk
RBC Foundation
Heather Ryan and L. David Dube, Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel
The Salamander Foundation
The Wilson Foundation

$50,000 to $99,999
HCol (Ret’d) John C. Eaton, O.Ont., K.St.J., D.Com. and HCol (Ret’d) Sally Horsfall Eaton, S.S.St.J., C.D., R.N., LL.D.
HCol (Ret’d) Brian Hastings
Sandra Howe and Dallas Howe, Honorary Colonel
Pomerleau
Shaw Communications Inc.
Sandra Stromberg and Robert Stromberg, former Honorary Colonel
Honorary Colonel Robert Williams

$25,000 to $49,999
Arthur B. C. Drache, C.M., Q.C. and Judy Young Drache
Friends of the Canadian War Museum
Lesley Barron Kerr
R. Howard Webster Foundation

$10,000 to $24,999
BCU Foundation
Black & McDonald Ltd.
Fleming Foundation

$5,000 to $9,999
Andrea T. Bobkowicz
Dr. Frederick J Brooks-Hill
James Fleck
Jim Stewart

$1,000 to $4,999
Athol Murray College of Notre Dame
Raymond and Audrey Beaulieu
Brookfield High School
Sterling Conrad
Dawne Deeley
Maurice Dupasquier
Jean and Dennis Giguère
Michael J. and Anne Gough
J. L. Granatstein
Dr. Linda Grayson
Kevin B. Higgins
Norman Hillmer and Susan Whitney
IODE Walter Baker Chapter
Geoffrey Joyner
Paul Kavanagh
Kuper Academy inc.
Lower Canada College
Family and Friends of Rachelle Mair
Christopher McCreery
Bill & Doreen Motz
Nesbitt Family
Dean F. Oliver
Janice, Caroline, Patrick and Mark O’Neill
Elinor Gill Ratcliffe C.M., O.N.L., LLD(hc)
H. Graham Rawlinson and Catherine E. Salo
Don and Jean Rutherford
John and Donna Schwartzburg
The family of Private Wayne (“Clink”) Dean Smith
St. Elizabeth Catholic High School
Second Lieutenant Richard Iorweth Thorman, RCA
Robert G. Tucker
Chrissie Unterhoffer
W. A. Waselovich
Robert C. Wilband
Donna Lee and J. W. Zaleski

$500 to $999
Major J. Brodeur
Shirley Brosseau
William Young & Philippe Bussy
Michèle Canto
Maurice Corbett
Corporation du Fort St-Jean
Honor and Michael de Pencier
Frieda Dym
Murray M. Fisher
Eleanor Palmer Friesen
R. Allan Gould
Christine Haley
Darren Hines
Historica Canada
Audrey Kenny
Robert J. Killen
David and Rhonda Loye
John and Nancy Matthews
Isabell McDorman
Arley K. Molloy
Dr. Rodney Nelson
Charles B. Nixon
David and Patricia Noakes
Orillia Unit 400 ANAVETS in Canada
Joan Porter
Karen Rowbottom
Donald Rutherford
Selwyn House School
Donald Francis Smith
Marg E. Southern
Stanstead College
William E. Stavert
Claude Thibault
John N. Tilley
Ronald K. Watts
Jack Whitmore
Michael and Amy Wolfe

$250 to $499
Archbishop Denis O’Connor Catholic High School
MWO (Ret’d) Carl J. and Dorothy E. Arthurs
Ian K. Barker
Douglas Bean
Robert M. Bennett
David and Barrie Bercuson
Vera Besso
Alan and Sheila Bottomley
Douglas Boxall
George A. Bradshaw
Domenic Bravi
John Carter
Brian and Lindsay Cuthbertson
De La Salle Public High School
Dicky Deumer
Dr. Robert Drummond
Leanne Duncan
Stanley Dunscombe
Lieutenant-Colonel Reverend Dennis Dwyer
John P. Evans
David Finley
William Flahr
Capt Peter Forsberg, CD
Donald B. Foster
Hugh W. A. Fuller
Doreen Gabel
Marielle S. Gagné
Dr. D. L. Granatstein
Cathy and David Harbinson
BGen Sheila A. Hellstrom
Lawrence and Beatrice Herman
Marion V. Holmes
Donald G. Hook
Thomas P. Hribar
R. Douglas and Colleen Hunter
Roy D. James
Dr. Jean Kavanagh
Maj Terry B. Kelly
John G Kersley
Linda Kincaid
Lawrance M. Lashkevich
Lyle Lawson
Jack F. Layton
Ms. Karen Clark LeBlanc
Dwight Logan
Loyola High School
B. MacDougall
Judge Lauren E. Marshall and Archie V. Campbell
David G. Mast
Nancy McFadyen
Col (Ret’d) D. B. McGibbon
Susan Merry
Colonel (Ret’d) Alain Pellerin, OMM, CD
John Douglas Price
Glenda J. Redden
A. Kent Robinson
David Robinson
LCol Joseph William and Christy M. Robinson
Muriel Rolfe
Anthony Rustin
Dr. Brian H. Sabiston
The Sacred Heart School Of Montreal
Frank Scott
Hannah Shannon
Henry Shannon
Mark and Pat Shields
George R. Skinner
John D. Stewart
Judy Street
Gerry and Kathaleen Suek
James G. Thompson
Trafalgar School for Girls
Vernon G. and Beryl A. O. Turner
John Vujnovic
West Island College Inc.

Legacy Circle
We are proud to acknowledge and thank the following individuals for providing a future gift to the Museums through a bequest, gift of life insurance or other planned giving arrangement.

J. L. Granatstein
Col (Ret’d) Jarrott W. Holtzhauer
Ernest Howard
Paul Kavanagh
General Paul Manson
Ann R. Mooney
John and Donna Schwartzburg
Second Lieutenant Richard Iorweth Thorman, RCA

Artifact Donors
These individuals and organizations have chosen to be recognized for their artifact donation this year. Their generous donations represent a remarkable acknowledgement of the value of our shared history, culture and identity.

Royal Canadian Legion Kings Branch no 006, Kentville, NS
MGen (Ret’d) Clive John Addy
Elizabeth Bollmann
Dr. Peter E Campos
Catherine Dermody
Daniel Dubuc
Yvon DuFour
Anne Stanfield, Donald Henderson, Betsey Gudz
Estate of Margaret (Marmie) Perkins Hess
Hon. Serge Joyal
Professor Lubomyr Luciuk and Katharine Wowk
René J. and Thérèse Marin
Guy Martel
Penny Winter
The Rachlis Family
The Reitberger Family
Marjorie Sandilands
Susan Evans Shaw