Freedom of the City honorees prior to 2010
Recipients of the award are recognized during a special ceremony at Council, which consists of the reading and presentation of a framed certificate, and the presentation of the Freedom Medal. Recipients have their names inscribed in the Book of Freedoms.
| Date awarded | Honoree |
|---|---|
| 6 October 2005 | Dal Richards |
| 5 November 2002 | The Right Honourable Kim Campbell |
| 28 May 2002 | Arthur Erickson |
| 30 November 1999 | Joseph Segal |
| 2 December 1997 | Marguerite Ford |
| 8 July 1997 | YWCA |
| 7 May 1996 | Morris Wosk |
| 22 February 1994 | George Woodcock |
| 28 September 1993 | Dr. Pauline Weinstein |
| 28 September 1993 | The Honourable David C. Lam |
| 2 September 1993 | The Vancouver Foundation |
| 18 June 1992 | May Brown |
| 16 June 1992 | Thomas R Berger |
| 4 June 1991 | Fritz Bowers |
| 19 February 1991 | George Wainborn |
| 19 February 1991 | Jack Bell |
| 17 January 1989 | Jack Shadbolt |
| 12 July 1998 | Bill Reid |
| 12 July 1998 | Chief Justice Nathan T. Nemetz |
| 3 November 1987 | Cecil H. Green |
| 24 March 1987 | Rick Hansen |
| 7 January 1986 | Dr. Walter Charles Koerner |
| 7 January 1986 | Dr. Hugh Llewellyn Kennleyside |
| 7 January 1986 | The Honourable Henry P. Bell-Irving |
| 11 June 1985 | John Lecky |
| 26 April 1983 | Duke of Connaught's Own, BC Regiment |
| 15 December 1981 | Stanley Noble Stronge |
| 18 September 1979 | Mary Pack |
| 29 July 1980 | Joseph Cohen |
| 24 April 1979 | Jack Diamond |
| 14 March 1978 | Jean Coulthard |
| 6 December 1977 | Seaforth Highlanders, 15th Field and Artillery Regiment |
| 9 August 1977 | William Orson Banfield |
| 24 May 1977 | Marianne Linnell |
| 24 May 1977 | Thomas McDonald |
| 17 December 1976 | The Honourable John Robert Nicholson |
| 27 August 1974 | Arthur Laing |
| 23 July 1974 | Grace MacInnis |
| 5 February 1974 | Earle Gordon Adams |
| 10 April 1973 | Harold Edward Winch |
| 13 February 1973 | HMCS Discovery |
| 3 January 1973 | Reverend Dr George Turpin |
| 11 January 1972 | Whitford Julain VanDusen |
| 11 January 1972 | Howard Charles Green |
| 16 December 1970 | Reginald Atherton |
| 16 December 1970 | Prentice Bloedel |
| 30 March 1970 | Halford David Wilson |
| 17 December 1968 | The Honourable Clarence Wallace |
| 1 October 1968 | Archbishop William Mark Duke |
| 27 August 1968 | The Honourable George Randolph Pearkes |
| 16 January 1968 | The Honourable Frank MacKenzie Ross |
| 16 January 1968 | Arthur Edward Lord |
| 20 December 1966 | Harvey Reginald MacMillan |
| 20 December 1966 | Bertram Arnold Emery |
| 29 December 1965 | Arnold Alexander Webster |
| 17 February 1965 | Premier William Andrew Cecil Bennett |
| 29 December 1964 | Henry Hubert Stevens |
| 29 December 1964 | Charles Edwin Thompson |
| 29 December 1964 | John Henderson |
| 21 July 1964 | William Boyd McKechnie |
| 30 December 1963 | Frederick John Hume |
| 17 December 1963 | Rufus Charles Gibbs |
| 17 December 1963 | George Torrance Cunningham |
| 17 December 1963 | Jonathan Webster Cornett |
| 25 September 1962 | Oscar Orr |
| 31 May 1955 | Stanley Victor Smith |
| 16 November 1953 | James Skitt Matthews |
| 1 December 1952 | Thomas Brooks |
| 1 December 1952 | James Blackwood |
| 1 December 1952 | George Clark Miller |
| 16 June 1947 | William Merton Neal |
| 17 March 1947 | William Harold Malkin |
| 12 May 1947 | John Bennett |
| 23 December 1946 | The Honourable William Culham Woodward |
| 2 January 1946 | Henry DG Crerar |
| 29 September 1941 | The Honourable Eric Hamber |
| 30 June 1941 | The Right Honourable William Lyon MacKenzie King |
| 4 January 1939 | The Right Honourable Richard Bedford Bennett |
| 28 March 1938 | Lauchlan Alexander Hamilton |
| 20 August 1936 | Sir Edward Beatty, President, CPR |
| 20 August 1936 | Sir Percy Vincent, Lord Mayor of London |