• Deceased
• Oakville, Ontario, Canada

Order of Canada

• Officer of the Order of Canada

  • Awarded on: December 19, 1983
  • Invested on: April 11, 1984

  During her quarter-century tenure as head of the Still Photography Division of the National Film Board, Ottawa, Lorraine Monk worked tirelessly, through the many exhibitions she organized and the major books she published, to foster the art of fine photography in Canada. In 1978, she was the founding director of the Canadian Museum of Photography, Toronto, which is the first of its kind in the country.

• Member of the Order of Canada

  • Awarded on: June 19, 1973
  • Invested on: October 24, 1973

  Executive Producer, Still Photography Division, National Film Board. For the standard of excellence she has set in the publication and exhibition of photography and for the support she has given to young photographers.