Bene merenti de patria is a silver medal created in 1923. It is awarded by the Quebec patriotic Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society to a "compatriot having rendered exceptional services to the homeland".
Laureates
1924: Marie Lacoste Gérin-Lajoie
1924: Laurent-Olivier David
1964: Sister Marie-Stéphane
1964: Wilfrid Laurier
1965: Claude Champagne
1965: Lionel Daunais
1965: Aline Hector Perrier (fr) 1966: Annette Lasalle-Leduc 1966: Jean Vallerand 1966: Eugène Lapierre 1968: Dr. Pierre Grondin 1970: Clermont Pépin 1972: Dr. Armand Frappier 1974: Gustave Bellefleur 1975: Father Gustave Lamarche (fr) 1977: Raymond Barbeau 1977: Jean-Charles Bonenfant (posthumous) 1982: Séraphin Marion 1982: Jean Rougeau (known as Johnny Rougeau) 1983: Jeannine Séguin 1987: Gilles Proulx 1989: Pierre-Louis Mallen (first non-Quebecer) 1990: Alice Poznanska-Parizeau (posthumous) 1991: Mary Travers (known as La Bolduc, posthumous) 1992: Dollard Ménard and Eugenia Dias 1997: Rosaire Morin (fr) 2005: Raymond Lévesque 2011: Réginald Chartrand (fr) 2012: Marcel Masse 2015: Gilles Rhéaume 2019: Yvon Groulx 2019: Yves Saint-Denis
References
"Liste des Lauréates et lauréats du prix Bene Merenti De Patria" at Bilan du Siècle