The YTV Achievement Awards (aka YAA!) was an annual awards ceremony presented by YTV. The ceremony took place annually (except 1991) from 1989 to 2000. The awards were given to young Canadians who had an important contribution in one of several diverse categories.
For each awards year, there is a nomination period. Entrants could nominate themselves, or be nominated by someone else. Nominees were required to be 19 or younger. Finalists and winners in each category were selected from the nominees list by a panel of judges.
Award categories
Dates and locations #YearDateCityVenueHost(s)1st19893 NovemberToronto, OntarioMetro Toronto Convention CentreJim Carrey2nd19902 NovemberToronto, OntarioMetro Toronto Convention CentreLaurie Hibberd and Derek McGrath3rd199211 MarchOttawa, OntarioNational Arts CentreAlan Thicke and Laurie Hibberd4th199322 AprilOttawa, OntarioNational Arts CentreAndrea Martin5th199416 AprilOttawa, OntarioNational Arts Centre"Tarzan" Dan Freeman and "Weird Al" Yankovic6th19956 April (broadcast on YTV on 8 April)Ottawa, OntarioNational Arts Centre"Tarzan" Dan Freeman, Phil Guerrero and Eva Preger7th199628 AprilToronto, OntarioMetro Toronto Convention CentreLarisa Oleynik, Phil Guerrero and Paul McGuire8th199727 AprilToronto, OntarioMetro Toronto Convention CentrePaul McGuire and Aashna Patel9th199819 AprilToronto, OntarioMetro Toronto Convention CentreCaroline Rhea, Shaun Majumder and Paul McGuire10th19996 JuneOttawa, OntarioNational Arts CentreBen Savage, Danielle Fishel, Paul McGuire and Phil Guerrero11th200028 MayToronto, OntarioMetro Toronto Convention CentreCurt Harnett, Jennifer Katie Racicot and Pat Kelly
Awards 1st Annual YTV Achievement Awards (1989) Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).
Zachary Ansley –BC Imamu Baraka (Mike Weaver, Steve Dawson, Jeff Hicks, Krister Kott-meier and Tim Rutledge) –Vancouver, BC Joe Philion –Orillia, ON Jason Goldberg –Winnipeg, MB The Young Street Players –Toronto, ON Amanda Daft –Delta, BC Shannon Bard –West Vancouver, BC Joshua Richmond –Dresden, ON Melanie Goodchild –Thunder Bay, ON Laurie Shong –BC Shandra Leavitt –Musquash, NB. Hayden Thomas –Vancouver, BC Nicole Luiken –AB
2nd Annual YTV Achievement Awards (1990) Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).
Emily Perkins –Vancouver, BC Barenaked Ladies –Scarborough, ON Students from Lambton-Kent Composite School –Dresden, ON
TIE: Lisa Jones - Calgary, AB & The Canadian Children's Dance Theatre -Toronto, ON Marc Kielburger –Thornhill, ON Rachel Zimmerman –London, ON Karen Wong –Vancouver, BC Gregory Gillespie –Oshawa, ON Gord 'n Jase (Gordon Magee and Jason Overy) –Victoria, BC Ian Power - Summerside, PEI Tara Lynne Touesnard –NS Alec Stevenson –Toronto, ON Selena Grouse –Toronto, ON Nadine Shelly –Fulford Harbour, BC
3rd Annual YTV Achievement Awards (1992) Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).
Sarah Sawatsky –Vancouver, BC The Smugglers –Vancouver, BC David James –Pitt Meadows, BC Jennifer McCleery;–Whitby, ON Darren and Lara Lynn Lacey –Regina, SK Student Action for a Viable Environment (SAVE) –Vancouver, BC Doug Olafson – Winnipeg, MB Naida Cole –Toronto, ON Lisa Taylor;–Grand Falls, NF Stacey Singe;–Regina, SK Clara Hughes –MB Joey Saccary –Glace Bay, NS Danielle Currie –Victoria, BC Lisa Brokop;–Surrey, BC Charles Jason Wilcox;–Fredericton, NB
4th Annual YTV Achievement Awards (1993) Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).
Annie Galipeau –Messines, QC The Dervishes –Guelph, ON Jocelyn McDonald –Minaki, ON Christopher Caldwell –London, ON Christine O'Leary –Toronto, ON Neal Graham –Lower Sackville, NS Rochan Sankar –Brossard, QC Stewart Goodyear –Thornhill, ON Angela Walkley –Whitehorse, YT Cirque du Soleil (Jinnu Jacinto, Laurence Racine-Chouinière, Nadine Louis-Binette et Isabelle Chassé) Tracey Ferguson –Markham, ON Lindsay Staniforth Cindy Wall –St. John's, NL Andrew J. Wong –Vancouver, BC Tamia Washington – Windsor, ON Nicholas Woo –Clearbrook, BC
Virginie Larivière –St. Polycarpe, QU
5th Annual YTV Achievement Awards (1994) Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).
Steve Gendron –QC TIE Gypsy Soul –Toronto, ON & Seventh Stone –Victoria, BC Amelia Peter-Paul -P.E.I. Marc Boutet - Ste. Foy, QC Matthias Sperling - Toronto, ON Diana Steffen and Linda Hoogendoorn -BC Samir Gupta and Denis Tsui -QC Marc-Andre Gauthier -Longueuil, QC Denise Campbell -ON Emilie Grenon-Emiroglou -Brossard, QC & Genevieve Bessette -Montreal, QC Marc Gagnon -QC Peter Marcelli, Stouffville, ON Brad DeLore -Moose Jaw, SK Zoe Mackenzie -Gibsons, BC Marie-Alice Depestre -Laval, QC Sheila Heti -Toronto, ON
6th Annual YTV Achievement Awards (1995) Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).
Ashleigh Aston Moore –Vancouver, BC Noir Silence – Saint-Georges, QC Cristia Dudman Tiverton, ON Adam Spiers –Red Deer, AL Marjash Mrozewski –Sudbury, ON Paul Brown and Anie Galipeau –Ottawa, ON Chris Heyn and Rarn "Puvi" Puvanesasingham –London, ON Antoine LeFebvre –St-Lambert, QC Jason DuBois –Rosetown, SK Preston Pashe –Portage la Prairie, MB Trevor Nash –Binbrook, ON Jean-Dominic Levesque-Rene –Blizard, QC Byron Hodgins –London, ON TIE Measha Gosman –Fredericton, NB & Tara Lyn Mohr –Roblin, MB Elise Moore –Winnipeg, MB Manisha Barti –Cornwall, ON
7th Annual YTV Achievement Awards (1996) Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).
Aidan Pendleton – North Vancouver, BC Plumtree –Halifax, NS Circut –Nepean, ON d.b.s. –Vancouver, BC Half Size Giants –Orleans, ON Made In Québec –Valcourt, QC Men 'O' Steel –Sainte-Julie, QC Prozac –Windsor, NS Reset –Laval, QC Sisters Cherrie –Toronto, ON President's Choice –Port Williams, NS Stanley Houle & Earl Okemow –Peerless Lake, AB Shane Cuddington –Manor, SK Jamie Tapper –AB David Grassby –Thornhill, ON Sharon Cushing and Julie Desjardins – ON Sonia Chan Steve Kent –Mount Pearl, NL TIE: Gods of Rhythm –Montreal, QC & Gordon McKeeman –New Glasgow, NS Émile Carey –Montreal, QC Estella Warren – Mississauga, ON Aaron Wong-Sing – Vancouver, BC Eric Fehlberg – ON Rebecca Miller – ON Lindsay Beyerstein – Port Moody, BC
Casie Stewart Craig Kielburger –Thornhill, ON
8th Annual YTV Achievement Awards (1997) Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).
Colleen Rennison –Vancouver, BC Maggie Blake –Queenston, ON Margot Finley –Vancouver, BC Brendan Fletcher –Courtenay, BC Martha MacIsaac –Charlottetown, PE Marie-France Monette –Montreal, ON Joel Palmer –Langley, BC Jewel Staite –Vancouver, BC Stuart Stone –Toronto, ON Dan Warry-Smith –Toronto, ON Soup –Halifax, NS F-Jam –Coquitlam, BC Kermess –Coaticook, QC The McAuley Boys –London, ON Les Mouches Noires –St-Boniface, MB Pedestrian –Dartmouth, NS Supercar –Cornwall, PE Steve Marcoux –Victoriaville, QC Tara Cassidy –Aylmer, QC Kelly Cheater & Kris Cheater –Stoughton, SK Trevor Hunter, Sabrina Vincent –Moosonee, ON Christine Wesley, Ashley Wynne Kerry Klingbeil –Cloverdale, BC Pierre-Luc Martial –Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours, QC Brian McWilliams –Don Mills, ON The Parolin Children –Princeton, BC Johnny Racine –Alma, QC Reese Risdon & John Rutherford –Strathmore, AB Christopher Wice –Angus, ON Christy Panylyk & Carlee Panylyk –Hinton, AB Don Aiken –Red Lake, ON Chad Bardsley –Tecumseh, ON Aleem Dhanani –Calgary, AB Carrie Donovan, Morgan Hicks, Mary Middleton, Michael Sponagle –Mount Uniacke, NS B.J. Hay & Aaron Wrightly –Havelock, ON Julie-Andrée Hébert & Marie-Claude Hébert –Victoriaville, QC Alim Jiwa & Shafin Tejani –Vancouver, BC Benjamin Lefebvre –Trois-Rivières, QC Liam Wilson –Conception Bay, NF Brianne Bland –Vancouver, BC Alyssa Bonic –Toronto, ON Stephanie Cadman & Nicolas Dromard –Nepean, ON Laurie Cahoon –Sherwood Park, AB Jennifer Jimenez –Ottawa, ON Travis Knights –Dollard-des-Ormeaux, QC Stacey Martin –Nepean, ON Colleen Rintamaki –Pickering, ON Adrienne Serr –Thornhill, ON Kanchana Sastri –Oakville, ON Pamela Penton & Shelley Penton –Fogo Island, NF Julien Brazeau & Jean-Sébastien Ledoux –Orleans & Gloucester, ON Jonathan Clark –Devon, AB Corinne Goyetche –West Bay, NS Fiona Grant –Victoria, BC Enviroworks –Kingston, ON Larry Kim –Winnipeg, MB Sabrina Perri –Saint-Leonard, QC Carl Rothfels –Pefferlaw, ON Robin Walsh –Fairview, AB Sabrina Perri –Saint-Leonard, QC Eric Bellotti –Dollard-des-Ormeaux, QC Andrew Deonarine –Winnipeg, MB Haïgo Djambazian –Montreal, QC Christine Ichim –Kitchener, ON Malgorzata Kaminska –Cumberland Township, ON Asad Khan –Hamilton, ON Vijay Pandurangan –Brossard, QC Dinen Subramaniam –Winnipeg, MB Andrea Wan –Sarnia, ON Benjamin Bowman –Toronto, ON Stepan Arman –Renforth, NB Edward Choi –Calgary, AB The Crown Trio (Andrea Case, Emily Fowler, Irene Wong) –Calgary, AB Ori Friedman –Thornhill, ON Jessica Linnebach –Edmonton, AB Ian Parker –Burnaby, BC Dantonio Pisano –St-Jean-sur-Richlieu, QC Patrice Servant –Buckingham, QC April Dawn Verch –Pembroke, ON Nava Mizrahi –Vancouver, BC Tajesh Adhihetty –Edmonton, AB Jasan Dhanota –East York, ON Christine Ichim –Kitchener, ON Jennifer Machado –Toronto, ON Christopher McKibbin –Winnipeg, MB Lisa Monkman –Winnipeg, MB Chau Pham –Winnipeg, MB Kimberly Richard –Pierrefonds, QC Monica Tran –Aurora, ON Travis Knights –Dollard-des-Ormeaux, QC Émile Carey –Montreal, QC Martyne Dubé –Montreal, QC Émilie Dion & Catherine Viens –Boucherville & Rosemere, QC F.IV –Montreal, QC Austin Garrick –Toronto, ON Mathew Johnson –Stratford, ON Christian Laramée –Montreal, QC Jordan Lemon & Nicholas Lemon –Woodstock, ON Jeremy Olson –Coquitlam, BC Caroline Théroux –St-Hyacinthe, QC Y B Normal? –Aylmer, QC Joseph Radmore –Kemptville, ON Maxime Boilard –Lac Beauport, QC Mark Boswell –Brampton, ON Petra Cada –Halifax, NS Jessica Deglau –Vancouver, BC Jeane Lassen –Whitehorse, YT Jennifer Mickelson –Collingwood, ON Natasha Quan-Vie –Calgary, AB Cristina Popescu –Montreal, QC Yvonne Tousek –Cambridge, ON Kimberly Richard –Pierrefonds, QC Jon Paul Blenke –Leduc, AB Michael Cuccione –Coquitlam, BC Kristin Hayes –Markham, ON Ryan Hoskins –Edmonton, AB Simon Ibell –Victoria, BC Sébastien Lepage –Drummondville, QC Norma Jean MacPhee –Sydney, NS Jennifer-Lynn Newman –London, ON Harisuthan Subramaniam –Scarborough, ON Michelle Irving –Halifax, NS Dominic Bercier –Ottawa, ON Tamara Chatterjee-Chatelain –Toronto, ON Mélanie Couture –Tracy, QC Rita Godlevskis –Toronto, ON Émilie Goulet –St.Lambert, QC Claudine Leclerc –Pont-Rouge, QC Stéphane Leclerc –Pont-Rouge, QC Howie Shia –Saskatoon, SK Dan Soelberg –Oakville, ON Sarah Troper –Toronto, ON Cory Van Groningen –Port Dover, ON Holy Heart of Mary Chamber Choir –St.John's, NF Kendall Docherty –Pinette, PE Mark Donelly –Ottawa, ON Audrey Gagnon –Jonquière, QC Anique Granger –Saskatoon, SK Tyler Hamilton –Sherwood Park, AB Amber Lemouel –Yellowknife, NT Leon Leontaridis –Surrey, BC Belinda Munro –Toronto, ON Ann Marie Schreiner –Hull, QC Lawnie Wallace –Stoufville, ON Jérôme Gariépy –Montreal, QC Nicholas Billon –Montreal, QC Julie Gobeil –Windsor, QC Royden Kadyschuk –Saskatoon, SK Gregory Lane –Maple Ridge, BC Laura MacDonald –Halifax, NS Amanda Olliver –St.Lazare, QC Charlotte Stewart –Victoria, BC Zachary-Evan Wychopen –Edmonton, AB Trudy-Ann Young –Toronto, ON
9th Annual YTV Achievement Awards (1998)