Mayor's Arts Award for Business Support
2017 recipient
London Drugs
The London Drugs Foundation is a proud supporter of a significant number of community led initiatives across Western Canada. With a strong focus on health and education, the London Drugs Foundation has also supported arts and culture projects in Vancouver for many years including; the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Bard on the Beach, and the Vancouver Chamber Choir, to name a few.
The support of the foundation to these musical and theatre groups has always included some facet of education, providing children exposure to, and participation in, the arts. Whether it’s attending a musical performance, a gallery, or visiting and engaging with the performers on stage, the London Drugs Foundation continues to be committed to providing the next generation with opportunities to explore a variety of educational options and vocations, including the arts.
Founded in 1967, The Georgia Straight reaches hundreds of thousands of Metro Vancouver readers each week. Staff at the paper and at Straight.com take pride contributing to Vancouver’s creative economy with the city’s most extensive arts, music, and movie sections. The Georgia Straight sponsors many festivals – including DOXA, PuSh International Performing Arts, Indian Summer, Vancouver Folk Music Festival, Fringe, Eastside Culture Crawl, and Vancouver Latin American Film Festival. Cultural leaders who have appeared on Georgia Straight covers include: Veda Hille, Norman Armour, Bramwell Tovey, Paul Wong, Stan Douglas, Colleen Wheeler, Dan Mangan, Omer Arbel, Ken Lum, and Emily Molnar. Georgia Straight staff take part regularly in panel discussions in the arts community. It is the company’s mission to be the definitive arts and entertainment source for Vancouverites.
Goldcorp
Lawson Lundell LLP is a leading Vancouver-based law firm with deep roots in our local business and wider community. The firm recognizes the important role that the arts play in fostering a vibrant, healthy community and enriching people’s lives. As such, they are proud to support the arts.
Established in 1817 as Bank of Montreal, BMO Financial Group is a highly-diversified North American financial services organization. The first Bank of Montreal branch in the province opened in Vancouver in 1887. 
Sharman King is an active professional musician, performing in studios and theatres. Until 1991, he was part of the Faculty of Music at the University of British Columbia and Capilano College. He is currently bass trombonist of the Vancouver Opera Orchestra. King was a member of the famed Buddy Rich Orchestra and has been privileged to perform with Diana Krall, Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan, Tom Jones, and Luciano Pavarotti. 
TD Community Giving invests in communities to make a positive impact where it does business and where its customers, clients, and employees live and work.
Rio Tinto Alcan was formed in October 2007 by merging the assets of the former Rio Tinto aluminum group with Alcan Inc. In Canada, where Alcan Inc was founded over 100 years ago, Rio Tinto Alcan now manages extensive operations in Quebec and British Columbia, including some of the lowest cost and environmentally efficient aluminum smelters in the world. In BC, the company operates an aluminum smelter in Kitimat, and a water reservoir and associated power operations located in north central BC.
Telus views its commitment to communities as an important priority and a fundamental part of its culture. It must also do good in the communities where its team members, clients, and community partners live, work, and serve.
Nominated by Festival Vancouver with support from Vancouver Opera and the Vancouver Recital Society, this corporate citizen is an independent, British Columbia-based, full-service investment firm, providing professional advice, objective research and personalized client service to investors since 1923.