Officer of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: December 29, 1986
• Invested on: April 29, 1987

Founding member of the League of Canadian Poets, former Writer-In-Residence at a number of Universities and presently Adjunct Professor at Simon Fraser University, winner of the Governor General's Prize for Poetry in 1944 and 1947, she is widely-known as one of this country's consistently outstanding poets.