Officer of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: December 14, 1981
• Invested on: April 21, 1982

He has been prominent as a librarian, archivist, Canadian historian and university administrator. Following appointments in his native Saskatchewan and at McGill and Queen's universities, he was President of the University of Regina from 1974 to 1976. His principal recent publication is a history of Saskatchewan; and he directed that province's diamond jubilee celebrations in 1980.