Honours
Waddington was awarded Borestone Mountain Awards for best poetry in 1963, 1966, and 1974.
Waddington received the J.J. Segal award in 1972. She was the Canada Council Exchange Poet to Wales in 1980, and served as writer-in-residence at the Windsor Public Library and at the University of Ottawa.
She received honorary doctorates from Lakehead University in 1975 and York University in 1985.
Her poem "Jacques Cartier in Toronto" is featured on the back of the Canadian $100 bill released in 2004.
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