Veronica Steele Morgan, Cleveland, Nova Scotia
Governor General's Caring Canadian Award
Mother of ten children, Veronica Morgan is a long-time volunteer who treats family, friends and neighbours with kindness and compassion, in times of health, sickness or mourning. She has served her community as a school board trustee, organized the annual residential campaign for the Heart and Stroke Foundation for twenty-five years, and has been a lifelong volunteer with her church. Mrs. Morgan was also a well-known competitive Scottish step dancer, conversant in the Gaelic language, who helped preserve the Gaelic culture in Nova Scotia through song and dance.