Previous Winners
Previous Winners
Award of Excellence
2025 Award of Excellence Winner - Juanita Metzger
The 2025 Award of Excellence was presented to Juanita Metzger at the September 23, 2025 Heritage Foundation Meeting.
2019-2024
No awards presented
2018
Benedict Benninger
Jeremy Hetherington
David B. Scott
Lary Turner
2017
Stephanie Massel
Margaret McCreery
Karen Scott-Booth
Lesley Webb
2016
Marie Voisin
Mino Ode Kwewak N'gamowak
2015
Richard Woeller
Susan Saunders Mavor
Perimeter Development Corporation
Eric Haldenby
Jim Parrott
David Pyper
2014
Friends of Joseph Schneider Haus
Paul Jardin
Mary-Jean Page
Natasha and Cory de Villiers
2013
The New Hamburg Independent
William Bennett and Mary Beaton
Margaret Stacey
Michael and the late Endla Loney
Philippe Elsworthy
2012
Joyce Rayment Arndt
Helga Hartman
Dr. Sharon Jaeger
2011
Michael Clifton, Mark Kok, and John Dorey
Victor Hiebert
Elinor and John Hueton
Sun Life Financial
2010
Ron Cascaden and Wendy Wright Cascaden
Dr. Jody Decker
Jon Fear
Marilyn Sararus
Woolwich Township Council and Richard Sigurdson, Engineering Project Supervisor for the restoration of the Glasgow Street Bridge in Conestogo
2009
Brian Dietrich
Faith Hieblinger
Ray Martin
Brant Smith
2008
John Arndt
Ron Hackett
Nancy Maitland
Bradley Paddock
Marion Roes
Dr. Frances L. Stewart and Dr. Gail Pool
Donna Wall
2007
Dona Madill
Lynn Osbourne-Way
Peter DeGroot
Herb Ratz
Gordon Ambrose
Ken McLaughlin
2006
Maryanne Weiler
Ross Anderson
The Company of Neighbours
Joe and Stephanie Mancini
Frances Hoffman Homer Watson House and Gallery
2005
Betty Schneider
Ruth Gutpell
Bertha Thompson
Brent Davis
Fran McIntosh
Veteran's Green Project Committee
2004
Marg Rowell, Waterloo
Bob Rowell, Waterloo
Jeff Lederer, General Manager, for University of Waterloo School of Architecture, Cambridge
Caitlin Jo Reusser, Wilmot Township
Pat Rosebrugh, Cambridge
2003
Rosemary Ambrose, Kitchener
A.R. Kaufman Public School, Kitchener
Edward R. Good Funeral Home Ltd., Waterloo
Restoration Team of the Freeport Bridge
Diane Strickler, Breslau
Susan Struthers, Cambridge
Patricia Wagner, Kitchener
2002
Alison Jackson
Miriam Snyder Sokvitne
The Executive Committee of the Friends of the Governor's House and Gaol Millennium Garden Project
2001
Betty Lou Cull
Preston Lawn Bowling Club Restoration Committee
Katherine Jacob
Laurie Thatcher
Waterloo Historical Society
2000
Detweiler Meetinghouse Inc.
Bill & Marian Weber
Nicholas Hill
Public Works Dept. City of Kitchener & Steve Gyorffy, General Manager
Archbishop P. Goodrich & congregation of St. Matthew's-on-the-Hill
Lorna Bergey
1999
F.W.R. Dickson
Gerald Noonan
Willie Kellner
1998
Jan Gayman
Margaret Reid
Stephanie Marie Barber
Andrew W. Taylor (1907-1986)
Gretchen McCulloch
Eddie Koch
1997
Warren Stauch
Rych Mills
Dr. Peter Wyshynski
1996
Dr. Elizabeth Bloomfield
Susan Hoffman
Gary Beach
Waterloo-Wellington Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society
Alfred J. Schenk
Citizens of Kitchener
1995
Kitchener-Waterloo Hospital
Ellis Little
Jim & Mark Murray (Murray Clothing & Footwear, New Hamburg)
Dorothy Russell
Margaret Dickson
Mary Johnston
Helen Koepke
1994
L. Rowan (Kitchener Housing, bronze plaque)
Grand River Conservation Authority
Kathryn Lamb
Hilda Mueller
Lynn Myers
Ken Sylvester
1993
Jean Haalbloom
Mortice Kerns Systems
1992
Ernst F. Ritz
Roy Walker Roth
Peter Etril Snyder
C.A. Ventin Architects Ltd.
1991
Grace Schmidt
Dr. Ken McLaughlin
Joanne Smart
Bristow Inn, Elmira
1990
No awards presented
1989
Gore Park Bandstand
Old City Hall, Cambridge
Victoria Park Bandstand
31 Tilt Drive, Kitchener
H.B. Smith/Grierson House
Howell Residence, 126 Blair Road, Cambridge
Horsman Residence "The Castle"
The David Weber House
The Red Lion Inn
The Galt Woolen Mill
Old Public Utilities building, 191-195 King Street W., Kitchener
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, 1 King Street East, Kitchener
1985-1988
No awards presented
1984
Walper Terrace Hotel
Cambridge Little Theatre
F.W.R. Dickson
Dr. Jean Steckle Award
2019-2025
No awards presented
2018
Anne-Marie Bettschen
2017
Diane Strickler
2016
Rick Haldenby
2015
Dr. Gordon Nelson
2014
Joanna Rickert-Hall
2013
Karl Kessler and Jane Snyder
2012
Carolyn Blackstock
2011
Jim Westwood
2010
Dave Neufled
2009
Samuel Steiner
2008
Warren Stauch
2007
Dr. Ken McLaughlin
2006
Geoffrey Hayes
2005
Marg Dickson
Helen Koepke
2004
Barbara Veale
2003
Kathryn Hansuld Lamb
2002
Jean Steckle
Sally Thorsen Award
2019-2025
No awards presented
2018
Hilda Sturm
2017
Richard Fuller
2016
Karen Ball-Pyatt
2015
Jane Britton
2014
Valerie Spring
2013
No award presented
2012
Kathleen Lefaive
2011
Tracy Loch
2010
Dr. Robert Shipley
2009
Joan Mitchell
2008
John Clinckett
2007
No award presented
2006
Jim Quantrell
2005
Anne Chafe
2004
Leon Bensason
2003
Dr. Ken McLaughlin
2002
Tom Reitz
2001
Susan Saunders Bellingham
2000
Susan Hoffman
1999
No award presented
1998
Susan Burke
1997
Mike Wagner
Heritage Research Award
2017-2025
No awards presented
2016
Jesse Abbot
Joanna Rickert-Hall
2015
Kayleigh Fleury
Bily Armstrong
2014
Stephen Collins, Michael Eitenne, Kelly Mackenzie, Sarah McGarry, Ben Toews, Caterina Katzer and Sonia Schafer
2013
Carly Simpson
Scott McGeown, Shelby Riddell and Joshua Pride
2012
No award presented
2011
Jack Lucas, looking at independent and semi-dependent governmental agencies at the local level in Ontario
2010
No award presented
2009
Kellen Kurschinski
2008
Nathan Coschi - "Education in Waterloo County During the First World War "
Elysia DeLaurentis - "Public Shaming as Popular Punishment in Wellington and Waterloo Counties "
2007
Anne Fitzpatrick - "The Establishment of a Historical Class Provincial Park in Waterloo Region"
Bryan Lovasz "Animosity, Ambivalence or Cooperation: German Canadian Relations During and After the Second World War"
2006
Jason Kovacs
Danielle Matheusik "Beer and Busts: K-W Oktoberfest and the Transformation of a Community Festival, 1967-1980"
2005
Josh MacFadyen
2004
No award presented
2003
No award presented
2002
Alexander Jenkins
Shawn Mueller
2001
Heather Moran
2000
Jennifer Johnson
1999
Heather Fraser
Sharalyn Krahn
1998
No award presented
1997
Mary L. MacDonald
1993-1996
No award presented
1992
Brenda Ackerman
1991
Marlisa Spadafora
1990
Lynn Richardson
1988-1989
No awards presented
1987
John Shewchuk
Waterloo Region History Prize
2019-2025
No awards presented
2018
Overtime: Portraits of a Vanishing Canada by Karl Kessler and Sunshine Chen
2017
No award presented
2016
Evolving Urban Lanscapes: A photographic Memoir by Philippe Elsworthy
2015
Transition of Common Work by Joe and Stephanie Mancini
2014
Love Lost & Found: The Story of Mel Brown by Sean Jasmins
2013
The War Years of Wellesley, Woolwich and Elmira by Clayton Ash