Medal of Bravery

• Awarded on: April 8, 1999
• Invested on: December 03, 1999

On June 5, 1997, during his tour of duty in Haiti, MCpl Dominique Sauvé saved a woman and her four children from a burning apartment in a small Port-au-Prince shantytown. On hearing that a family was unable to escape because the stairs were blocked by flames, MCpl Sauvé climbed onto the roof of a lottery stand and then onto the balcony of an upstairs apartment, which was covered with pieces of burning wood. After fighting his way through the inferno, he carried the woman and her four children, one by one, to a colleague who had stayed on the lottery stand roof. He left the premises only after ensuring that no one else was in danger.