CCSBE-CCPME Lifetime Achievement Award

Selection as a CCSBE Lifetime Achievement Award winner is the highest recognition that the Canadian Council for Small Business & Entrepreneurship (CCSBE) gives to individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the development, furtherance and benefit of small business and entrepreneurship in Canada.

The CCSBE Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes those men and women whose passion for small business and entrepreneurship is exhibited over the history of their career and have achieved excellence in at least one of the following areas: 

  • Advocacy for Entrepreneurship and/or Small Business across Canada

  • Nationally recognized for their leadership role in Small Business and/or Entrepreneurship, as an academic, educator, researcher, or practitioner

  • Excellence as an outstanding supporter of small business and/or entrepreneurship. 

Since 1987, ten distinguished educators, researchers, government officials and small business advocates have been selected as a CCSBE Lifetime Achievement Award winner.

CCSBE Lifetime Achievement Award Winners

(Award winners who have unfortunately passed away are identified with an asterisk*)

Dr. Dina Lavoie
Dr. Yvon Gasse
Mr. Robert Bilodeau
Ms. Lois Stevenson
Dr. Louis Jacques Filion
Mr. Chris Pelham
Mr. Gerald d’Amboise
Mr. Charles Coffey
Mr. Garfield A. Pynn*
Dr. Teresa Menzies