| National and regional award winners |
| The list of national and regional award winners for nearly 20 years reads as a veritable who’s-who of Canada’s fastest-rising business leaders. The National and Lifetime Achievement award recipients have each received an exclusive crystal trophy, designed by Mark Raynes Roberts of Raynes & Co. |
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| Canada’s Entrepreneur Of The Year, 1994–2011 |
| 2012 | Dr. Alan Ulsifer | FYidoctors |
| 2011 | Dani Reiss | Canada Goose |
| 2010 | James Temerty | Northland Power Income Fund |
| 2009 | Dan Themig, Ken Paltzat and Peter Krabben | Packers Plus Energy Services Inc. |
| 2008 | Dr. Piyush Patel | Allied Research International |
| 2007 | Peter E. Gilgan | The Mattamy Corporation |
| 2006 | Guy Laliberté | Cirque du Soleil |
| 2005 | David P. Werklund | CCS Income Trust |
| 2004 | William (Bill) Comrie | The Brick Warehouse Corporation |
| 2003 | Donald Triggs | Vincor International Inc. |
| 2002 | David Robson | Veritas (DGC) Inc. |
| 2001 | Kenneth Field | Commercial Alcohols, Inc. |
| 2000 | Clive Beddoe, Mark Hill, Don Bell, Tim Morgan |
WestJet Airlines Ltd. |
| 1999 | Ronald Joyce | The TDL Group Ltd. |
| 1998 | Kwok Yuen Ho | ATI Technologies Inc. |
| 1997 | Klaus Woerner | ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc. |
| 1996 | Rod McPike | Propak Systems Ltd. |
| 1995 | Vic De Zen | Royal Plastics Group Limited |
| 1994 | Daniel Langlois | Soft Image Inc. |
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| Lifetime Achievement Awards |
| 2012 | Pacific
Dr. Norman B. Keevil | Teck Resources Limited |
| | Ontario
Joseph L. Rotman | Roy-L Capital Corporation |
| 2011 | Atlantic
Derek Oland | Moosehead Breweries |
| 2010 | Pacific
Peter M. Brown | Canaccord |
| | Québec
Charles Sirois | Telesystem |
| | Atlantic
Dr. Regis Duffy | BioVectra Inc. |
| 2009 | Atlantic
Mel Woodward | Woodward Group of Companies |
| 2008 | Pacific
Robert H. Lee | The Prospero Group |
| | Prairies
Clayton Riddell | Paramount Resources Ltd. |
| | Ontario
Ted Rogers | Rogers Communications Inc. |
| | Québec
Pierre Péladeau | Quebecor |
| | Atlantic
Irving Schwartz | Schwartz and Company Limited |
| 2007 | Ontario
Wallace McCain | Maple Leaf Foods Inc., McCain Foods Group |
| | Atlantic
Graham Dennis | The Halifax Herald Limited |
| 2006 | Pacific
Dr. John MacDonald | Day4 Energy Inc. |
| | Québec
Joseph Kruger II | Kruger Inc. |
| 2005 | Ontario
Gerald Schwartz | Onex Corporation |
| | Québec
André Chagnon |
| | Atlantic
Kenneth Rowe | I.M.P. Group International Inc. |
| 2004 | Pacific
William L. Sauder | Sauder Industries Ltd. |
| | Québec
Rémi Marcoux | Transcontinental Inc. |
| | Atlantic
Paul Johnson | Johnson Insurance Corporation |
| 2003 | Ontario
Isadore Sharp | Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts |
| | Québec
Stephen A. Jarislowsky | Jarislowsky Fraser Limited |
| | Atlantic
Harry Steele | Newfoundland Capital Corporation |
| 2002 | Pacific
Milton K. Wong | HSBC Asset Management (Canada) Limited |
| | Prairies
JR Shaw | Shaw Communications Inc. |
| | Ontario
Edwin Mirvish | Ed Mirvish Enterprises |
| | Québec
Jean Coutu | Le Groupe Jean Coutu (PJC) Inc. |
| | Atlantic
David F. Sobey, Sobey's Inc. | Donald R. Sobey, Empire Co. Ltd. |
| 2001 | Pacific
Joseph Segal | Kingwood Capital Corporation |
| | Prairies
Arthur DeFehr | Palliser Furniture |
| | Ontario
Thomas & Sonja Bata | Bata Limited |
| | Québec
Paul Desmarais | Power Corporation of Canada (PJC) Inc. |
| | Atlantic
John Bragg | Oxford Frozen Foods |
| 2000 | Pacific
Jim Pattison | The Jim Pattison Group |
| | Prairies
Jim Gray | Canadian Hunter Exploration Limited |
| | Ontario
Frank Stronach | Magna International Inc. |
| | Québec
Laurent Beaudoin | Bombardier Inc. |
