William Deverell  |  Doctor of Letters, HONORIS CAUSA  |  Thursday, Oct. 6, 9:45 am
Deverell is an internationally acclaimed BC writer, environmental activist, civil libertarian, criminal lawyer, multi-award-winning crime novelist with 16 titles to date and creator of CBC-TV’s long-running dramatic series Street Legal. Deverell worked as a journalist while completing two degrees at the University of Saskatchewan, graduating in law in 1963. As a member of the BC, Alberta and Yukon bars, he worked for both prosecution and defence in criminal, civil rights, labour and environmental law. Deverell’s first novel, Needles, won the $50,000 Seal Prize in 1979 and the Book of the Year Award in l981. Trial of Passion won the 1997 Dashiell Hammett award for crime writing in North America. Deverell has also won two Arthur Ellis awards for crime writing in Canada—in 1997 for Trial of Passion and in 2006 for the sequel April Fool—and was twice shortlisted for the Leacock prize for humour. His novels have been translated into 14 languages and sold worldwide.

Ian Hampton  |  Doctor of Fine Arts, HONORIS CAUSA  |  Thursday, Oct. 6, 2:30 pm
Hampton is a renowned cellist, Langley Community Music School (LCMS) artistic director emeritus and former member of the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), Academy of St. Martin’s in the Fields (ASMF), Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (VSO) and CBC Radio Orchestra. He was also a founding member of the Purcell String Quartet from 1968–89, which was SFU’s quartet-in-residence from 1972–82. His playing is marked by sensitive musicianship, a superb tone and a commanding technique. Hampton’s musical career began in the U.K. as a member of the LSO and the ASMF.  He moved to Canada in 1966, becoming principal cellist with the VSO and the CBC orchestra. Latterly, he was principal cellist for the Vancouver Opera orchestra. In 1999, he received the BC Arts Council award for his extraordinary contribution as a performer, teacher and administrator. In 2009, Hampton was named a Canadian Music Centre ambassador for his contribution to Canadian new music.

C.S. (Buzz) Holling  |  Doctor of Science, HONORIS CAUSA |  Friday, Oct. 7, 9:45 am
Holling is a celebrated ecologist who first introduced the concept of resilience in ecological systems to describe their ability to resist and recover from natural and man-made disturbances and is renowned for his work on ecosystem and social dynamics. Born in the U.S. to Canadian parents, Holling grew up in Northern Ontario where he first became interested in nature. He received his BA and MSc at the University of Toronto and his PhD at the University of British Columbia (UBC). After several years with Forestry Canada, he was at various times, professor and director of UBC’s Institute of Animal Resource Ecology; director of Vienna’s International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis; and the Arthur R. Marshall, Jr. Eminent Scholar Chair in Ecological Studies at the University of Florida, where he remains a professor emeritus. Holling was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada “for his pioneering contributions to the field of ecology, notably for his work on ecosystem dynamics, resilience theory and ecological economics.” He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a foreign fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and a recipient of the Austrian Cross of Honour for Arts
and Science.

Wendy Grant-John  |  Doctor of Laws, HONORIS CAUSA  |  Friday, Oct. 7, 2:30 pm.
Grant-John is a former three-term chief of the Musqueam First Nation who has devoted more than 30 years to improving the lives of Aboriginal people. As chief, she launched Canada’s first Aboriginal commercial fishery and helped the Musqueam achieve two landmark Supreme Court cases that solidified Aboriginal rights in the Constitution. She was also the first woman elected regional chief of the Assembly of First Nations and served as a commissioner on the Pacific Salmon Commission. From 1997–2002, she was associate regional director-general of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada for BC, and in 2006 she was appointed the Minster of Indian Affairs representative on the issue of matrimonial real property on reserves. Grant-John also worked on the Big Sisters Mentoring Program for First Nations Women, was a founding member and director of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation (1998) and a founder of Musqueam Weavers. She was awarded a National Aboriginal Achievement Award in 2006 for her decades of work that included diversifying the Musqueam reserve’s economic base, and received a 2001 YWCA Woman of Distinction award for social action.