Name Year Residence Position Ref(s). Carrie Best 2002 New Glasgow Journalist and human rights activist [ 6] [ 7] [ 8] John H. Boudreau 2002 Petit de Grat Helped to save Isle Madame from economic collapse during the decline of the ground fishery [ 7] [ 8] Shirley R. Chernin 2002 Glace Bay/Sydney Leader of the Citizens Service League in Glace Bay for over 30 years [ 7] [ 8] Lorne O. Clarke 2002 Halifax Chief Justice of Nova Scotia [ 7] [ 8] Edith H. Cromwell 2002 Inglewood First Black graduate of the Nova Scotia Teacher's College [ 7] [ 8] Marie Elwood 2002 Tantallon Chief Curator of History at the Nova Scotia Museum from 1973 to 1992 [ 7] [ 8] James A. Kehoe 2002 Sydney Owner of a Nova Scotia construction company [ 7] [ 8] Anne Murray 2002 Springhill/Thornhill Internationally recognized musician [ 9] [ 7] [ 8] Daniel N. Paul 2002 Halifax Writer on the history of the Mi'kmaq [ 6] [ 7] [ 8] John Savage 2002 Dartmouth Premier of Nova Scotia [ 9] [ 7] [ 8] Alan Abraham 2002 Halifax Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia [ 6] Lloyd Crouse 2002 Lunenburg Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia [ 6] John James Kinley 2002 Lunenburg Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia [ 6] Myra Freeman 2002 Halifax Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia [ 6] Arnold Burden 2003 Springhill First doctor to go underground during the 1956 Springhill mining disasters [ 10] Alex Colville 2003 Wolfville Painter and printmaker [ 10] Shirley Elliott 2003 Wolfville Legislative librarian of Nova Scotia from 1954 to 1982 [ 10] Buddy MacMaster 2003 Judique Cape Breton fiddler [ 10] Sister Dorothy Moore 2003 Sydney Mines Mi'kmaq educator and Elder [ 10] Anne Marie Comeau 2004 Saulnierville Director of the La Baie en Joie Dance Group [ 11] [ 12] Donald Michael Julien 2004 Millbrook Director of the Confederacy of Mainland Mi'kmaq [ 11] [ 12] Marial M. Mosher 2004 Halifax Professor at Mount Saint Vincent University [ 11] [ 12] Oscar Shiu-Yet Wong 2004 Halifax Radiation oncologist [ 11] [ 12] Sherman Zwicker 2004 Lunenburg Mayor of Lunenburg [ 11] [ 12] Constance Glube 2005 Halifax Chief Justice of Nova Scotia [ 13] Rita MacNeil 2005 Big Pond/Sydney Musician from Cape Breton [ 13] Theresa McNeil 2005 Upper Granville High Sheriff of Annapolis County [ 13] Cyril Reddy 2005 Antigonish Directed Community Services and the Children's Aid Society in Pictou County [ 13] Jack Yazer 2005 Sydney Founding chairman of the Cape Breton Regional Hospital [ 13] George Elliott Clarke 2006 Toronto/Three Mile Plains Poet, playwright, and scholar [ 14] Joan Dillon 2006 Antigonish Co-founder of the St. FX Project at St. Francis Xavier University [ 14] Ian Simon Fraser 2006 River John Director of the Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo [ 14] Alida de Jong Greenaway 2006 Dartmouth History researcher and linguist [ 14] Ron Stewart 2006 Halifax Career in emergency medicine [ 14] Mayann Francis 2006 Halifax Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia [ 14] Joyce Barkhouse 2007 Bridgewater Children's writer and educator [ 15] Peter Stephen Clarke 2007 Woodville Known for his contributions to agriculture [ 15] Tom Forrestall 2007 Dartmouth Painter [ 15] Flora MacDonald 2007 North Sydney Secretary of State for External Affairs [ 15] William D. Stanish 2007 Halifax Orthopedic surgeon [ 15] Nora Bernard 2008 Millbrook Mi'kmaq activist [ 16] [ 17] Sidney Crosby 2008 Cole Harbour Ice hockey player [ 18] [ 17] Ruth Goldbloom 2008 Halifax Directed the restoration of Pier 21 [ 18] [ 17] Michael Dan MacNeil 2008 Jamesville Founder of a Cape Breton forestry company [ 18] [ 17] Thomas John Murray 2008 Halifax Dean of Medicine at Dalhousie University [ 18] [ 17] Mahmood Ali Naqvi 2008 Sydney Vascular surgeon in Cape Breton [ 18] [ 17] Michael Baker 2009 Lunenburg Nova Scotia MLA and cabinet minister [ 19] Melvin James Boutilier 2009 Halifax Founder of the Community Care Network food bank in Halifax [ 19] Muriel Duckworth 2009 Bedford Women's rights activist [ 19] Philip Riteman 2009 Bedford Auschwitz survivor [ 19] Viola Marie Robinson 2009 Truro Mi'kmaq activist [ 19] J. Chalmers Doane 2010 South Maitland Music educator [ 20] James Herbert Leonard Hill 2010 Dartmouth Co-founder of the Christmas Daddies Telethon [ 20] Rocky Jones 2010 Halifax Founder of the Black United Front of Nova Scotia [ 20] Eva June Landry 2010 St. Peter's First female Inspector of Schools in Nova Scotia [ 20] William Robert Pope 2010 Mount Denson Founder of the Windsor Elms Senior Home [ 20] Wayne Adams 2011 East Preston First Black Nova Scotian MLA [ 21] Judson Graham Day 2011 Hantsport Chancellor of Dalhousie University [ 21] Bruce MacKinnon 2011 Halifax Cartoonist [ 21] Joseph Benjamin Marshall 2011 Eskasoni Mi'kmaq rights activist [ 21] Budge Wilson 2011 Halifax Writer [ 21] John James Grant 2011 New Glasgow Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia [ 21] Silver Donald Cameron 2012 Halifax Writer and Dean of Cape Breton University [ 22] Graham W. Dennis 2012 Halifax Publisher [ 22] Alexa McDonough 2012 Halifax Leader of the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party and the federal New Democratic Party [ 22] Robert James Morgan 2012 Sydney Historian [ 22] Bridglal Pachai 2012 Halifax Professor, writer, and human rights activist [ 22] Eldon George 2013 Parrsboro Geologist who discovered the world's smallest dinosaur footprints [ 23] [ 24] Fred George 2013 Bedford Businessman and philanthropist [ 23] [ 24] Ed Kinley 2013 Halifax Cardiovascular surgeon [ 23] [ 24] Hetty van Gurp 2013 Halifax Founder of Peaceful Schools International [ 23] [ 24] Raylene Marguerite Rankin 2013 Halifax and Mabou Lawyer and singer-songwriter [ 23] [ 24] Walter Borden 2014 New Glasgow Actor, poet, and playwright [ 25] [ 26] Richard Goldbloom 2014 Halifax Pediatrician [ 25] [ 26] Stan Kutcher 2014 Herring Cove Psychiatrist [ 25] [ 26] Wanda Thomas Bernard 2014 East Preston Social worker and educator [ 25] [ 26] Ruth Holmes Whitehead 2014 Halifax Ethnologist at the Nova Scotia Museum [ 25] [ 26] Margaret Macdonald Casey 2015 Halifax Physician in North End Halifax [ 27] [ 28] Louis Deveau 2015 Dartmouth Founder of Acadian Seaplants Limited [ 27] [ 28] Martin Rudy Haase 2015 Chester Environmentalist [ 27] [ 28] Sharon Hope Irwin 2015 Sydney Childcare director [ 27] [ 28] Alistair MacLeod 2015 Dunvegan Novelist, short story writer and academic [ 27] [ 28] Francoise Baylis 2016 Halifax Bioethicist [ 29] [ 30] Freeman Douglas Knockwood 2016 Indian Brook Mi'kmaq Elder [ 29] [ 30] Arthur B. McDonald 2016 Sydney/Kingston Astrophysicist [ 29] [ 30] James Leonard Morrow 2016 Windsor Director of the Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia [ 29] [ 30] Donald R. Reid 2016 Joggins Fossil collector for the Joggins Fossil Centre [ 29] [ 30] Bradford J. Barton 2017 Dartmouth Educator [ 31] [ 32] Geraldine Marjorie Browning 2017 Centreville President of the Valley African Nova Scotian Development Association [ 31] [ 32] R. Irene d'Entremont 2017 Yarmouth President of ITG Information Management Inc. [ 31] [ 32] Ray Ivany 2017 Wolfville President of Acadia University [ 31] [ 32] Peter J.M. Nicholson 2017 Annapolis Royal Science and technology [ 31] [ 32] Arthur LeBlanc 2017 Halifax Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia [ 31] [ 32] Ellie Black 2018 Dartmouth Olympic gymnast [ 33] [ 34] [ 35] John Bragg 2018 Oxford President of Oxford Frozen Foods and past Chancellor of Mount Allison University [ 34] [ 35] Clotilda Douglas-Yakimchuk 2018 Whitney Pier First Black Canadian to graduate from the Nova Scotia Hospital School of Nursing, and the first Black president of the Registered Nurses' Association of Nova Scotia [ 34] [ 35] Janet Kitz 2018 Halifax Historian recognized as an authority on the Halifax Explosion [ 34] [ 35] Patti Ann Melanson 2018 Halifax Nurse and activist [ 34] [ 35] Wade Smith 2018 Halifax Educator, coach, and advocate for preserving African Nova Scotian culture [ 34] [ 35] Elizabeth Cromwell 2019 Birchtown African Nova Scotian heritage activist [ 36] [ 37] Francis Dorrington 2019 New Glasgow Public servant [ 36] [ 37] Noni MacDonald 2019 Halifax Pediatrician [ 36] [ 37] Ann MacLean 2019 Ingonish Beach Social worker and therapist [ 36] [ 37] David M. McKeage 2019 Halifax Founder of Brigadoon Village [ 36] [ 37] Linda Best 2020 Wolfville Founder of FarmWorks Investment Co-operative [ 38] [ 39] Stella Bowles 2020 Bridgewater Environmentalist and public speaker [ 40] [ 39] [ 38] David Glenn Fountain 2020 Halifax Businessman and philanthropist [ 39] [ 38] Natalie MacMaster 2020 Lakefield, ON Gaelic fiddler from Cape Breton [ 39] [ 38] Donald Oliver 2020 Queens County Senator and founding chairman of the Black Cultural Society [ 39] [ 38] Shawna Y. Paris-Hoyte 2020 Halifax Lawyer and social worker [ 39] [ 38] Ronald Bourgeois 2021 Chéticamp Musician [ 41] [ 42] Lee Cohen 2021 Halifax Lawyer and social justice advocate [ 41] [ 42] Saeed El-Darahali 2021 Dartmouth Businessman [ 41] [ 42] Paula Marshall 2021 Eskasoni Mi'kmaq rights advocate [ 41] [ 42] Wanda Robson 2021 North Sydney Human rights advocate [ 41] [ 42] John Boileau 2022 Bedford Historian [ 43] [ 44] Kenzie MacNeil 2022 Sydney Songwriter and performer [ 43] [ 44] Rustum Southwell 2022 Halifax Businessman and founding director of the Black Business Initiative [ 43] [ 44] Robert Strang 2022 Fall River Chief Medical Officer of Health of Nova Scotia, recognized for his leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic [ 43] [ 44] Hope Swinimer 2022 Seaforth Founder of Hope for Wildlife [ 43] [ 44] Phil Comeau 2023 Saulnierville/Moncton Film and television director [ 45] [ 46] [ 47] Jacqueline Gahagan 2023 Halifax Health researcher [ 46] [ 45] [ 47] Bruce Guthro 2023 Sydney Mines Singer-songwriter [ 46] [ 45] [ 47] Sylvia Hamilton 2023 Grand-Pré Filmmaker, writer, and educator [ 46] [ 45] [ 47] Stephen Kimber 2023 Halifax Writer, journalist, and educator [ 46] [ 45] [ 47] Mike Savage 2024 Halifax Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia [ 48] Afua Cooper 2024 Halifax Historian [ 49] [ 4] J. Michael MacDonald 2024 Halifax Chief Justice of Nova Scotia [ 49] [ 4] Allan E. Marble 2024 Halifax Medical historian and biomedical engineer [ 49] [ 4] Robert G. C. Sobey 2024 Stellarton Businessman and philanthropist [ 49] [ 4] Joseph P. Shannon 2024 Port Hawkesbury Businessman and philanthropist [ 49] [ 4] 
