Awards and Honours

• Winner of the 1959 Governor General's Award for poetry for A Red Carpet for the Sun.
• Winner of the University of Western Ontario President's Medal (poetry) for "Keine Lazarovitch 1870-1959."
• Honourary Doctor of Civil Law (D.C.L.) from Bishops' University 1970.
• Honourary Doctor of Litterature (D.Litt.) from Concordia University, 1976.
• Elected to Officer in the Order of Canada, 1976.
• Winner of a Life Achievement Award from Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1979.
• Honourary Doctor of Litterature (D.Litt.) from York University, 1979.
• Nominated for a Nobel prize for literature in 1982.
• Nominated for a Nobel prize for literature in 1983.

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