University. He received the National Aboriginal Achievement Award, the Indspire Awards, 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. He was made a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. 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 and were printed by Ashton-Potter Limited. Two of his sculptures, The Raven and the First Men and Spirit of Haida Gwaii, are prominently featured on the $20 note in the Bank of Canada's new Canadian Journey (2004) issue, paired with a quotation from author Gabrielle Roy. He was the subject of Alanis Obomsawin's 2022 documentary film Bill Reid Remembers. Later years Reid participated in the blockades of logging roads which helped save the rain forests of Gwaii Haanas (South Moresby). He stopped work on the sculpture in Washington during this period to protest the destruction of the forests of Haida Gwaii. At the time Bill Reid was alive the archipelago was called the Queen Charlotte Islands. In 1981, he married Martine de Widerspach-Thor (Mormanne), a French anthropologist. Having dedicated the later part of his life to the creation of new works and these tasks of curation, 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 mother's village of New Clew. Gallery See also Notable Aboriginal people of Canada List of indigenous artists of the Americas References External links Iljuwas Bill Reid: Life & Work by Gerald McMaster, published by the Art Canada Institute Bill Reid Foundation Article on Bill Reid (2019) Douglas Reynolds Gallery (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) "Bill Reid", 1979 NFB documentary "The Life and Legend of Bill Reid", CBC Digital Archives The Raven's Call / L'Appel du Corbeau virtual exhibition from the Virtual Museum of Canada 1920 births 1998 deaths Canadian people of American descent Canadian people of Scottish