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Lee Maracle, Alberto Manguel, Sally Armstrong among Order of Canada appointees

Lee Maracle (Katrina Cervoni)

Métis-Salish author Lee Maracle has been appointed an officer of the Order of Canada for her “contributions to Canada’s literary landscape and for her influential voice in cultural relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada.”

Journalist Sally Armstrong, Inuit historian Louie Kamookak, and authors Alberto Manguel and Émile Martel were also appointed officers.

Children’s writers Marilyn Baillie and Michel Noël, New Brunswick author and academic Christl Verduyn, and library-science expert Barbara Jean Weihs were named as Order members.