Margaret Woods Award For Outstanding Achievement

Initiated in 1989, this award is intended to honour outstanding service by a counsellor to the field of counselling, both locally and provincially. Recipients must have been members of MSCA for a minimum of five years while actively contributing to the counselling field at the provincial and/or local levels. Renamed the Margaret Woods Award For Outstanding Achievement in 1998 in recognition of Margaret's contributions to counselling in Manitoba as a counsellor in River East School Division and as the Treasurer of the Brandon Career Symposium since its inception in 1986.

• 1989 Art Ferguson, Dennis Lucas, Carolynne Pitura and Nadia Preyma
• 1990 Gracie Biedler and Heather Emberley
• 1991 Ruby Chambers, Doug Muir, Huguette Rempel and Joanne Snidal
• 1992 John T. Cooke
• 1993 Richard Robertson
• 1994 Norma Drosdowech
• 1996 Pat Herman and Dr. Wm. Schulz
• 1997 Wayne Tucker
• 1998 Randy McGunigal and Richard Robertson
• 1999 Jay Macleod and Louise Welsh
• 2000 Valerie Czarnecki, Bob Hamilton and Albert Dequier
• 2001 Sue Bryner
• 2002 Sandy Tuckwell
• 2003 Jan Stewart
• 2005 Lorna Martin
• 2008 Olga Wyshnowsky
• 2009 Monique Fillion
• 2009 Cathie Eliasson
• 2010 Ruth Hargrave
• 2011 Sharon Labossiere