page_title: Ernest MacMillan
section_title: Honours and awards
hierarchical_section_title: Ernest MacMillan / Career / Honours and awards
caption_attribution_description: The Canadian Trio (Zara Nelsova, Sir Ernest MacMillan, Kathleen Parlow)
context_page_description: Sir Ernest Alexander Campbell MacMillan, CC was a Canadian orchestral conductor, composer, organist, and Canada's only "Musical Knight". He is widely regarded as being Canada's pre-eminent musician, from the 1920s through the 1950s. His contributions to the development of music in Canada were sustained and varied, as conductor, performer, composer, administrator, lecturer, adjudicator, writer, humourist, and statesman.
context_section_description: For his "services to music in Canada", MacMillan was knighted in 1935 by King George V on the recommendation of the Prime Minister of Canada, R. B. Bennett.
  He became an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music in 1938, and was also a recipient of the University of Alberta National Award in Music (1952). MacMillan also received the Canada Council Medal twice (1964 and 1973) for "outstanding achievements in the arts, humanities or social sciences". 
  The University of Toronto's Faculty of Music received a new facility in 1964, in which they named their new theatre "The MacMillan Theatre". It holds up to 815 people, and the orchestra pit is large enough to fit 60 musicians.
  MacMillan's sons, Keith and Ross MacMillan, established the Sir Ernest MacMillan Memorial Foundation. To this day, the annual awards grow up to 10,000 dollars for "advanced education at a graduate level".
  Ernest MacMillan died in Toronto in 1973.
caption: The Canadian Trio (left to right: Zara Nelsova, Sir Ernest MacMillan, Kathleen Parlow). Photo, c. 1941–1944. Source: Sir Ernest MacMillan Collection, Library and Archives Canada
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