Canadian Mathematical Society
In 1978 he was elected of a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 1986 he was awarded the Jeffery–Williams Prize by the Canadian Mathematical Society. He was the president of the Canadian Mathematical Society in 1987–1989. The Institut des sciences mathématiques, a consortium of eight Quebec universities of which Herz was Director at the time of his death, established the Carl Herz Prize in his honor.