The Freedom of the City is the highest honour we can bestow as a municipality. This honour may be conferred on a distinguished person or a distinguished unit of the armed forces of Canada or another nation, and provides the recipient or commander of the recognized unit with certain privileges.
"Freedom of the City" is a designation that is awarded infrequently and only with the unanimous support of the Mayor and Council. It is regulated by Section 158 of the Community Charter.
Past Recipients
- April 10, 2019 - Mr. Doug Collins
- April 10, 2019 - Mrs. Patricia Wallace
- April 24, 2013 - Ambo Dhaliwal
- April 21, 2010 - Ronald Maguire
- November 10, 2009 - 886 (Overlander) Wing AFAC (represented by current President)
- April, 2008 - Cliff Branchflower
- December 20, 1994 - Albert J. (Jack) E. Chilton
- May 31, 1994 - Kathleen Lila Dyer
- July 1, 1993 - 419 Tactical Fighter (Training) Squadron (Moose Squadron), Canadian Forces Base, Cold Lake (represented by current Commanding Officer)
- February 27, 1990 - Army, Navy and Air Force Veterans in Canada Unit 290, Kamloops, B.C. (represented by current President)
- February 27, 1990 - John D. (Jack) Gregson
- April 4, 1989 - James Johnstone Clark
- April 4, 1989 - Angela Rose Marra
- October 4, 1988 - Elsie Gertrude Garlick
- October 4, 1988 - The Reverend Canon Nelson H. Atkinson
- March 29, 1988 - John Raymond Fuoco
- March 3, 1987 - Meryl Beatrice Matthews
- November 18, 1986 - Royal Canadian Legion, Branch No. 52 (represented by current President)
- May 15, 1984 - Canadian Forces Station, Mount Lolo (Closed 1989)
- November 10, 1981 - Dr. James Frederick Bernard Beesley
- February 19, 1980 - Rocky Mountain Rangers (represented by current Commanding Officer)
- January 3, 1978 - John Albert McGowan
- January 18, 1977 - Gordon Arthur Bregoliss
- February 4, 1975 - Anthony John (Tony) Romano
- April, 1973 - Frederick Roy Chapman (appointed by the Town of Valleyview)
- March 7, 1972 - Peter Wing
- July 2, 1969 - The Honourable Sydney John Smith
- July 2, 1969 - The Honourable Edmund Davie Fulton
- January 8, 1968 - Charles Anderson, J.P.
- January 8, 1962 - John Edward Fitzwater
- December 6, 1951 - James Reginald Colley
- September 14, 1950 - George Richmond Williams
- November 29, 1949 - William James Moffatt
