Editing Gordie Howe (section)

==Honours==
* Howe was appointed as an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]] on June 25, 1971. This gave him the [[List of post-nominal letters in Canada|post-nominal letters]] "OC" for life.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gg.ca/honour.aspx?id=797&t=12&ln=Howe|title=The Governor General of Canada|first=The Office of the Secretary to the Governor|last=General|access-date=June 12, 2016}}</ref>
* He was awarded the Canadian version of the [[Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal]] in 1977.
* He was the recipient of the Golden Plate Award of the [[Academy of Achievement|American Academy of Achievement]] in 1978.<ref>{{cite web|title= Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement |website=www.achievement.org|publisher=[[American Academy of Achievement]]|url=https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/#sports}}</ref>
* He was awarded the induction medal by the Hartford Whalers Hockey Hall of Fame in 1989<ref name="HWHHOF">{{cite web|url=https://auctions.nhl.com/iSynApp/auctionDisplay.action?sid=1100803&auctionId=5010800 | title=Gordie Howe's Hartford Whalers Hall of Fame Bronze Medallion w/Display }}</ref>
* He was awarded the [[125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal]] in 1992.
* The Howe family received the [[Wayne Gretzky International Award]] for major contributions to the growth and advancement of hockey in the United States in 2000.<ref name="USHHOF">{{cite web|url=https://www.ushockeyhalloffame.com/page/show/809127-wayne-gretzky-international-award|title=Wayne Gretzky International Award|website=U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame|access-date=March 19, 2018}}</ref>
* He was awarded the Canadian version of the [[Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal]] in 2002.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gg.ca/honour.aspx?id=41841&t=6&ln=Howe|title=The Governor General of Canada|first=The Office of the Secretary to the Governor|last=General|access-date=June 12, 2016}}</ref>
* He was awarded the Canadian version of the [[Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal]] in 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gg.ca/honour.aspx?id=103327&t=13&ln=Howe|title=The Governor General of Canada|first=The Office of the Secretary to the Governor|last=General|access-date=June 12, 2016}}</ref>
* He was awarded the [[honorary degree]] of [[Doctor of Laws]] from the [[University of Regina]] in spring 1997.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.uregina.ca/student/registrar/convocation/honorary/honorary-degree-recipients.html|title=Honorary Degree Recipients – Registrar's Office, University of Regina|access-date=June 12, 2016|archive-date=August 4, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170804021021/https://www.uregina.ca/student/registrar/convocation/honorary/honorary-degree-recipients.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* He was awarded the honorary degree of [[Doctor of Laws]] from the [[University of Saskatchewan]] on June 3, 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.usask.ca/archives/campus-history/honorary-degrees.php?id=541&view=detail&keyword=&campuses=|title=Honorary Degrees – University of Saskatchewan|access-date=June 12, 2016}}</ref>
* Gordie Howe was specifically honoured by then US President [[Barack Obama]] in his speech in the House of Commons Chamber in the Parliament of Canada on June 29, 2016, when Obama stated that ''"as Americans, we, too, celebrate the life of Mr. Hockey himself, the late, great Gordie Howe."''<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/06/30/remarks-president-obama-address-parliament-canada|title=Remarks by President Obama in Address to the Parliament of Canada|date=June 29, 2016|work=whitehouse.gov|access-date=November 14, 2017|language=en}}</ref>