Medal of Bravery

• Awarded on: July 2, 1979
• Invested on: September 21, 1979

Clovis Saint-Jacques saved a little girl, aged two, from a fire in her family home in the town on 27 January 1978. Mr. Saint-Jacques, both a policeman and a fireman, was off duty at the time and had seen the fire from his own house. Entering the burning house, he was soon forced out by heat and smoke. When the fire engine came he put on special equipment and went back inside; but unable to see, he came out, fastened a rope round his wait, and went in once more. He found the child by the sound of her voice, then shouted to others to pull them out on the rope. Wrongly advised that the child's mother was still in the house, he went back a fourth time, abandoning his efforts only when his air reserve was spent.