2004; Presidential Award, Masonry Design Awards, First Nations University, 2005; Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Excellence in the Arts Award, Banff, Alberta, 2005; Outstanding Professional Achievement Award, American Society of Landscape Architects, 2006; “World Master of Contemporary Architecture” by the IAA, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2006; Outstanding Professional Achievement Award, American Society of Landscape Architects, 2006; Canada Post postage stamp - Douglas Cardinal and St. Mary's Church - commemorating RAIC's 100th Anniversary, 2007; IAA Grand Prix Crystal Globe, 2009; St. Albert Place and City Hall declared ‘Municipal Historic Resource’, 2009; Gold Medal of the Union of Architects of Russia, Moscow, Russia, 2009; Best Public Services Development in Canada Meno-Ya-Win Health Centre, International Property Awards, Essex, United Kingdom, 2009; Alberta Masonry Design “Lifetime Achievement” Award, 2010; Wood WORKS! “Northern Ontario Excellence” Award for Sioux Lookout Meno-Ya-Win Health Centre, 2011; Ontario Wood Works “Northern Ontario Excellence Award” for Meno-Ya-Win Health Centre, 2012; RAIC-NSAA Le Prix du XXe siècle for Grand Prairie Regional College, 2013; Presidential Award from the Saskatchewan Masonry Institute for Gordon Oaks Red Bear Student Center in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 2016; Personal life Cardinal has been married four times and has eight children. After his return to Red Deer, Douglas Cardinal met his former high school sweetheart Deirdre. Her Irish Catholic family did not accept of their relationship because of his heritage and the two of them eloped. This also was a problem, because Cardinal had charges pressed against him as an interracial marriage was illegal at the time. He was defended by the archbishop lawyer Anthony Jordan and was not found guilty. Deirdre then was pressured to move back with her family, and was raising their first daughter alone. Shortly before he decided to go the United States, he started a relationship with Carole Olson. She accompanied him on a road trip 1957 to Texas and they later got married. They had three children - Nancy, Guy and Bret. The couple split during their years in America due to his preoccupation with work. His son Bret is also an architect and has worked with his father for 25 years until he started his own architecture firm. He married Marylin Zahar in 1973, with whom he had two children - Lisa and Jean-Marc. His fourth and current wife, Idoia Arana-Beobide, is of Basque origin and 30 years his junior. The two met in 1988 when his designs for the Canadian Museum of History were