- Awarded on: September 21, 2000
Cyril Stanley Mantle (posthumous), Truro, N.S.
Governor General's Caring Canadian Award
An elected councillor for Colchester County for twenty years, Cyril Mantle has further served his community through his membership on a vast number of local boards and committees ranging from the school board to the Emergency Measures Organization and the Cobequid Mental Health Association. In addition to being president of the local Boys and Girls Club and of a seniors group, he also founded and served as executive director of Jobs Unlimited, a workshop for persons with disabilities.