dinner guests

We eat dinner with friends at least once a month. Today we gathered together for Christmas dinner. Among our friends is Tom Butters who was born June 1925. He says was a politician. He likes to talk about the north. He did tell us he started a newspaper. But he has never told us that he received the Order of Canada.

Thomas H. Butters, C.M.
Chemainus, British Columbia [Canada]
Member of the Order of Canada
Awarded on October 19, 1994; Invested on March 1, 1995

One of the pioneer members of the Legislature of the Northwest Territories, he served as an MLA for twenty-one years and has played a major role in the evolution of representative government in the North. His commitment to the development of the region and its people began when he founded Inuvik's first weekly newspaper, which still serves the Western Arctic. (Order of Canada)