J’Nikira Dinqinesh-Every Child is Sacred Community-Building Award
JDEC Awards Winners
Since 2018, at the opening of Black History Month, Black History Ottawa has recognized those in the city who have adopt the United Nations Decade for people of African Descent, with three pillars, Development. Recognition. Justice, with people of African a distinct people whose human rights must be promoted and protected.
2025 Winners
Lionel Ifill
Presented with gratitude to honour and celebrate his Legacy Service to the most vulnerable of our sacred generations through his volunteer work with various organizations including the Black Canadian Scholarship Fund, the Barbados Ottawa Association, Impact Heritage and the Open Door.
Orson Bourne
Presented with gratitude to honour and celebrate his Legacy Service to the most vulnerable of our sacred generations through his volunteer work as a tutor with organizations such as the Barbados Ottawa Association and the Friends of Harambee Carrie Best Library, and as a youth sports coach and a resource for parents navigating the school system.
2024 (NGC)
Heather J McKinnon, Ottawa-Carleton District School Board
Diane Pernari, Ottawa-Carleton District School Board
Serge Belet, National Gallery of Canada
Jonathan Shaughnessy, National Gallery of Canada
Christopher Etheridge, National Gallery of Canada
Evelyn McGurrin, National Gallery of Canada
Liliane Lê, National Gallery of Canada
2023 (NGC)
Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO)
2022
2021
2019
Mayor, Jim Watson
2018