J. Ross Mackay - Honours and Distinctions

Honours and Distinctions

• made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
• made a foreign Fellow of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences
• awarded the Scholarly Merit Award by the Canadian Association of Geographers
• awarded the Roger J. E. Brown Memorial Award by the Canadian Geotechnical Society
• awarded the G. K. Gilbert Award by the Association of American Geographers
• awarded the Kirk Bryan Award by the Geological Society of America
• The Canadian Geomorphological Research Group gives out the J. Ross Mackay Award annually
• 1967, awarded the Massey Medal by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society
• 1967, awarded a Centennial Medal by the Government of Canada
• 1972, awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Ottawa
• 1975, awarded Willet G. Miller Medal by the Royal Society of Canada
• 1977, awarded a Silver Jubilee Medal by the Government of Canada
• 1981, awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Waterloo
• 1981, appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada
• 1984, awarded the Centenary Medal for Northern Science by the Government of Canada, presented by Governor General Jeanne Sauvé
• 1986, awarded the Vega Gold Medal by the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography, presented by the Carl XVI Gustaf, the King of Sweden
• 1986, awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Victoria
• 1987, awarded honorary doctorate from the University of British Columbia
• 1991, awarded Logan Medal by the Geological Association of Canada
• 1993, awarded W. A. Johnston Medal by the Canadian Quaternary Association
• 2007, an issue of the journal Permafrost and Periglacial Processes (Volume 18 no. 1) was produced in honour of his 90th birthday