Honours
- Juno Award, Best Roots/Traditional Album 1992, for The Visit.
- Juno Award, Best Roots/Traditional Album 1994, for The Mask and Mirror.
- Billboard Music Award for International Achievement, 1997.
- Headline performer for Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip at The Golden Jubilee Celebrations, Province of Manitoba, 2002.
- Honorary Doctor of Letters, Wilfrid Laurier University, 2002.
- Member of the Order of Manitoba, July 2003.
- Member of the Order of Canada, July 2004.
- Honorary Doctor of Laws, University of Manitoba, June 2005
- Canadian Ambassador, Hans Christian Andersen Bicentennary, June 2005
- Honorary Doctor of Laws, Queen's University, October 2005
- Investiture as Honorary Colonel, 435 Transport and Rescue Sqron, Royal Canadian Air Force, December 2006
- Nominated for a Grammy award, Best Contemporary World Music Album, in 2007
- Western Canadian Music Awards Lifetime Achievement Award, September 2009
- Performed at Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, Opening Ceremonies, February 12, 2010
- Honorary Bachelor of Applied Business, George Brown College, June 2010
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“Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and consequently scorns to boast. I therefore deliver it as a Maxim that whoever desires the Character of a proud Man, ought to conceal his Vanity.”
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