ALEX TREBEK NAMED AN OFFICER OF THE ORDER OF CANADA

Alex Trebek, Honorary President of the RCGS, was named an Officer of the Order of Canada on June 30 for his “iconic achievements in television and for his promotion of learning, notably as a champion for geographic literacy.” Trebek, a Sudbury native and a household name since he announced his first Jeopardy! categories on set in 1984, has long been a champion of geographic education, travelling often over the past three decades to host student geography competitions such as the Canadian Geographic Challenge’s live finals, which

he continues to support through the Trebek Family Foundation. Trebek has previously won the National Geographic Society’s Alexander Graham Bell Medal and the RCGS’S Gold Medal and Lawrence J. Burpee Medal — all in recognition of his dedication to geographic education. “Alex has done so much to raise geographic literacy,” says RCGS CEO John Geiger. “He represents the very best of us with a deep love of country, but also a global outlook and sense of humanitarianism.”