Honorary Membership is awarded to recognize the individual deemed to have made outstanding contributions to the art and science of dentistry, or to the dental profession, over a sustained period of time.
Although this award may be for service that is provincial, national or international in nature, an outstanding contribution at the national level shall be a principal consideration. Most often, recipients of Honorary Membership would be dentist members of the CDA.
| Honorary Membership - Past Recipients (Since 1944) | |
| 2023/2024 | Ms. Jocelyn Johnston (Vancouver, BC) |
| 2021/2022 | Mr. Claude Paul Boivin (Ottawa, Ontario) |
| Dr. Richard Price (Halifax, Nova Scotia) | |
| 2020/2021 | Mr. Joel Neal (Ottawa, Ontario) |
| Dr. Donald Gutkin (Winnipeg, Manitoba) | |
| Dr. Debora Matthews (Dartmouth, Nova Scotia) | |
| Dr. Philip Poon (Winnipeg, Manitoba) | |
| 2019/2020 | Dr. Leland McFadden (Winnipeg, Manitoba) |
| Dr. Mary McNally (Halifax, Nova Scotia) | |
| 2018/2019 | Dr. Brian Barrett (Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island) |
| Mr. Lyle Best (Edmonton, Alberta) | |
| Dr. Robert Sexton (Cornerbrook, Newfoundland) | |
| 2017/2018 | Dr. Toby Gushue (St. John’s, Newfoundland) |
| 2016/2017 | Dr. Peter Cooney (Greely, Ontario) |
| 2015/2016 | Dr. Daniel Haas - Toronto, Ontario |
| 2014/2015 | Dr. Gilles Lavigne - Montréal, QC |
| 2013/2014 | Dr. William MacInnis - Halifax, Nova Scotia |
| 2012/2013 | Mr. Don Pamenter - Halifax, Nova Scotia |
| 2011/2012 | No recipient |
| 2010/2011 | Dr. Johan Francis Wolfaardt - Edmonton, Alberta |
| 2009/2010 | Dr. David Sweet – Vancouver, British Columbia |
| 2008/2009 | Dr. Claude Lamarche - Montréal, Quebec |
| 2007/2008 | Dr. Marcia Boyd - Vancouver, British Columbia |
| 2006/2007 | Dr. Barry Dolman - Montréal, Quebec |
| Dr. Dennis C. Smith - Collingwood, Ontario | |
| 2005/2006 | Dr. Gordon Thompson - Edmonton, Alberta |
| 2004/2005 | Dr. David K. Peters - St. John’s, Newfoundland |
| Prof. George A. Zarb - Toronto, Ontario | |
| 2003/2004 | No recipients |
| 2002/2003 | Dr. James R. Brookfield - Kirkland Lake, Ontario |
| 2001/2002 | Dr. Don MacFarlane - Vancouver, British Columbia |
| 2000/2001 | Dr. Bernard Dolansky - Ottawa, Ontario |
| Dr. Ray Wenn - Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island | |
| 1999/2000 | Dr. George Peacock - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan |
| Dr. Norman Levine - Willowdale, Ontario | |
| 1998/1999 | Dr. William R. Scott - West Vancouver, British Columbia |
| 1997/1998 | Dr. Kevin L. Roach - Pembroke, Ontario |
| 1996/1997 | Dr. Kenneth Bentley - Lacolle, Quebec |
| 1995/1996 | Dr. Arthur Schwartz - Winnipeg, Manitoba |
| Dr. Helene Shingles - Sarnia, Ontario | |
| 1994/1995 | Dr. Ralph Brooke - London, Ontario |
| Dr. Ronald Markey - Vancouver, British Columbia | |
| 1993/1994 | No recipients |
| 1992/1993 | Dr. William McIntosh - Toronto, Ontario |
| Dr. Gordon Nikiforuk - Toronto, Ontario | |
| 1991/1992 | Dr. Wesley Dunn - London, Ontario |
| Dr. Jean-Paul Lussier - Westmount, Québec | |
| 1990/1991 | Dr. Ernest Ambrose - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan |
| Dr. Bradley Wescott Holmes - Kenora, Ontario | |
| Dr. Roderick Lawrence Moran - Toronto, Ontario | |
| 1989/1990 | Dr. Ralph Crawford - Delta, British Columbia |
| Dr. Robert N. Hicks - North Vancouver, British Columbia | |
| 1988/1989 | Dr. Nick A. Mancini - Hamilton, Ontario |
| 1987/1988 | Dr. William R. Thompson - Belleville, Ontario |
| 1986/1987 | No recipients |
| 1985/1986 | Dr. Lorne Edgar MacLachlan - Bedford, Nova Scotia |
| 1984/1985 | Dr. Conrad Godin - Trois-Rivières, Quebec |
| 1983/1984 | Dr. J. Fred Reid - Surrey, British Columbia |
| Dr. William Miller - Vancouver, British Columbia | |
| 1982/1983 | Dr. Bruce Taylor |
| 1981/1982 | Dr. George M. Dewis - Halifax, Nova Scotia |
| Dr. P. S. Christie - Halifax, Nova Scotia | |
| 1980/1981 | Dr. James Zimmerman |
| Dr. John F. Edgecombe | |
| 1979/1980 | Mr. Lloyd Bowen |
| 1978/1979 | Dr. Hector R. McLean |
| 1977/1978 | No recipient |
| 1976/1977 | Dr. S. MacGregor |
| 1975/1976 | No recipient |
| 1974/1975 | Dr. Joseph Harker Johnson |
| 1973/1974 | Dr. H.M. Worth |
| Dr. J. Menzies Campbell | |
| 1972/1973 | Dr. Robert Leblanc |
| 1971/1972 | Dr. Percy G. Anderson |
| Dr. Gerald Leatherman | |
| 1970/1971 | Dr. Gordon C. Watson |
| 1969/1970 | Dr. W. Gordon Leahy |
| 1968/1969 | Dr. Harold Cline |
| 1967/1968 | Gordon W. Watson, Q.C. |
| 1966/1967 | Dr. A.J. Cormier |
| Dr. Heath McIntyre | |
| 1965/1966 | Dr. Paul Geoffrion |
| 1964/1965 | Dr. W. Scott Hamilton |
| Dr. Donald W. Gullett | |
| 1963/1964 | Dr. Harvey W. Reid |
| Dr. A. Clifford Lewis | |
| 1962/1963 | Dr. Emery Jones |
| 1961/1962 | Dr. Arthur Allan Kenney |
| 1960/1961 | Dr. Felix Andrew French |
| 1959/1960 | Dr. Alden West Faulkner |
| 1958/1959 | Dr. George Guelph Armitage |
| 1957/1958 | Dr. W.L. Hutton |
| Dr. Howard James Merkley | |
| 1956/1957 | Dr. John W. Clay |
| 1955/1956 | Dr. Harold Keith Box |
| 1954/1955 | Dr. Frank Godsoe |
| 1953/1954 | Dr. Arthur Lambert Walsh |
| Dr. Ernest Charron | |
| Dr. Herbert Parker Buchanan | |
| 1952/1953 | Dr. Robert L. Pallen |
| Dr. Matthew Henry Garvin | |
| 1951/1952 | Dr. Sydney Wood Bradley |
| 1950/1951 | Dr. Stephan A. Moore |
| 1949/1950 | Dr. Lorne J.D. Fasken |
| 1948/1949 | Dr. Harold Hillenbrand |
| Dr. Joseph Nolin | |
| 1947/1948 | Dr. J. Stanley Bagnall |
| 1946/1947 | Dr. George Bush |
| 1945/1946 | No recipient |
| 1944/1945 | Dr. Harry S. Thomson |
