Medal of Bravery

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

On December 31, 1998, six-year-old Nick Vézina saved his twenty-month-old brother from their burning house on the family farm in St-Félicien, Quebec. Nick was playing with his brother in the house while his parents were busy milking the cows. When he smelled smoke coming from the basement, Nick brought his brother upstairs before calling 911. Despite his young age, he followed the operator's instructions. Guided only by his courage, Nick crawled about thirty metres through the thick smoke with his brother on his back, making it down the stairs and then to safety.