Medal of Bravery
- Awarded on: September 26, 1983
- Invested on: December 09, 1983
Howard Hayden Baragar, M.B.
Marion Watson, M.B.
Medal of Bravery
Two residents of Ontario, Howard Baragar and Marion Watson, through their joint efforts saved two infants from certain death when fire gutted the Watson dwelling on the morning of 23 September 1982. Sixty-year-old Mr. Baragar was driving a school bus on Highway 127, near Maynooth, when he saw smoke coming out of a house and found Mrs. Watson desperately trying to enter in order to rescue two of her children. Mr. Baragar forced open the door, but had to retreat twice in the face of intense heat and smoke. Then, at great personal risk, the mother dashed in and brought her three-week-old girl outside. Knowing that another child slept in a room located just across from where the fire had started, Mrs. Watson broke a pane of glass in an attempt to gain entry, but the height of the bedroom window prevented her. Climbing on a chair found near the house and pushing aside the flaming curtains, despite the raging fire, Mr. Baragar stretched inside and lifted another young girl out of her crib. She recovered from severe burns.