• Awarded on: December 12, 1996

Vaughan W. Marples, Don Mills, Ontario
Governor General's Caring Canadian Award

Over the years, Vaughan Marples has been an active volunteer in his community and is now dedicated to a life of voluntarism. He solicits donations for the food bank, organizes an annual church auction and bazaar, participates actively in a school program aimed at promoting literacy and mathematic skills, and is a volunteer driver for a seniors' residence. He is also involved with athletic games for persons with disabilities and collects tabs from soft drink cans to help purchase wheelchairs.