Editing Bill Reid (section)

==Legacy and honours==
Reid received many honours in his life, including honorary degrees from the [[University of British Columbia]], the [[University of Toronto]], the [[University of Victoria]], the [[University of Western Ontario]], [[York University]], and [[Trent University]]. He received the [[Indspire Awards|National Aboriginal Achievement Award]] for Lifetime Achievement in 1994, and was made a member of the [[Order of British Columbia]] and an Officer of [[France]]'s [[Order of Arts and Letters]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gazette.gc.ca/archives/p1/1998/1998-06-27/pdf/g1-13226.pdf|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130522232342/http://www.gazette.gc.ca/archives/p1/1998/1998-06-27/pdf/g1-13226.pdf|url-status=dead|title=''Canada Gazette'' Part I, Vol. 132, No. 26|archivedate=May 22, 2013}}</ref> He was made a member of the [[Royal Canadian Academy of Arts]].<ref name=RCA1880>{{cite web|title=Members since 1880 |url=http://www.rca-arc.ca/en/about_members/since1880.asp |publisher=Royal Canadian Academy of Arts |access-date=11 September 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110526215339/http://www.rca-arc.ca/en/about_members/since1880.asp |archive-date=26 May 2011 }}</ref>

On 30 April 1996 Canada Post issued 'The Spirit of Haida Gwaii, 1986–1991, Bill Reid' in the Masterpieces of Canadian art series. The stamp was designed by [[Pierre-Yves Pelletier]] based on the sculpture ''The Spirit of Haida Gwaii'' (1991) by William Ronald Reid in the Canadian Embassy, Washington, United States. The 90¢ stamps are perforated 12.5 x 13&nbsp; and were printed by [[Ashton-Potter Limited]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://data4.collectionscanada.gc.ca/netacgi/nph-brs?s1=%28art.TITP.%29+Or+%28art.TITI.+And+null.B742.%29&l=20&d=STMP&p=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2Farchivianet%2F02011702_e.html&r=12&f=G&Sect1=STMP |title=Canada Post stamp |access-date=2018-11-07 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130101051500/http://data4.collectionscanada.gc.ca/netacgi/nph-brs?s1=(art.TITP.)+Or+(art.TITI.+And+null.B742.)&l=20&d=STMP&p=1&u=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/archivianet/02011702_e.html&r=12&f=G&Sect1=STMP |archive-date=2013-01-01 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Two of his sculptures, ''[[The Raven and the First Men]]'' and ''[[Spirit of Haida Gwaii]]'', are prominently featured on the [[Canadian twenty-dollar bill|$20 note]] in the [[Bank of Canada]]'s new ''Canadian Journey'' (2004) issue, paired with a quotation from author [[Gabrielle Roy]].<ref>[http://www.bank-banque-canada.ca/en/banknotes/general/character/2001-04_20.html $20- 2001-2004 Series, ''Canadian Journey''- Bank note series, 1935 to present- Bank Notes- Bank of Canada<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

He was the subject of [[Alanis Obomsawin]]'s 2022 documentary film ''[[Bill Reid Remembers]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gratton |first=Marie-Eve |date=2022-03-31 |title=Hot Docs 2022 {{!}} Deux courts films de l'ONF sur des destins hors du commun |url=https://ctvm.info/hot-docs-2022-deux-courts-films-de-lonf-sur-des-destins-hors-du-commun/ |access-date=2024-12-17 |website=CTVM |language=fr-FR}}</ref>

===Later years===
Reid participated in the Haida-led blockades of logging roads that helped save the rain forests of [[Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve and Haida Heritage Site|Gwaii Haanas (South Moresby)]]. He stopped work on the sculpture in [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] during this period to protest the destruction of the forests of [[Haida Gwaii]], then known as the Queen Charlotte Islands. In 1981, he married Martine de Widerspach-Thor (Mormanne), a French anthropologist.

Reid died on 13 March 1998, of [[Parkinson's disease]], in Vancouver. In July 1998 friends and relatives paddled Lootaas, a large cedar canoe carved by Reid for [[Expo 86]], on a two-day journey along the Pacific coast to bring his ashes to Tanu Island in [[Haida Gwaii]], the site of his [[New Clew, British Columbia|mother's village]] of New Clew.