Decorations for Bravery Award Ceremony

Her Excellency presented one Star of Courage to James Alexander Santos, S.C. and Medals of Bravery to Constable Marco Barcarolo, M.B.; Constable Denis Côté, M.B.; Constable Alain Ibrahim Diallo,M.B.; Yves Morin, M.B. and Vincent Pascale, M.B., C.D. On September 13, 2006, a heavily armed man arrived at Dawson College in Montréal, Quebec, and shot at people on the street and later inside the college. The six men risked their lives by intervening rapidly. Mr. Santos became a hostage and served as a human shield to the killer. Mr. Santos tried in vain to get him to surrender. Eventually the gunman, wounded by a shot fired by Constable Côté, took his own life.

Her Excellency presented a Medal of Bravery to Corporal Adrian Markowski, M.B. On October 3, 2006, in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Corporal Piotr Burcew, Captain Jason Demaine, then lieutenant, Corporal Adrian Markowski and Master Corporal Stephen Thomas, then corporal, saved the lives of their fellow soldiers and local Afghan civilians by unloading ammunition from a disabled burning vehicle during a suicide bomber attack.

Her Excellency presented a Medal of Bravery to Edith Chamberland, M.B. On November 15, 2006, 15-year-old Edith Chamberland pulled a 10-year-old boy from the path of an oncoming out-of-control vehicle, in Saint-Paul-de-l’Île-aux-Noix, Quebec.

Her Excellency presented a Medal of Bravery to Katayoun (Katti) Eslah, M.B. On June 22, 2006, Katti Eslah rescued an elderly man from drowning in the St.LawrenceRiver, in Brockville, Ontario.

Her Excellency presented a Medal of Bravery to Mike Giroux, M.B. et John Lichtenwald, M.B. On June 1, 2006, Mike Giroux and John Lichtenwald rescued an elderly woman from a house fire, which claimed the life of the woman’s daughter, in Calgary, Alberta.

Her Excellency presented a Medal of Bravery to David George Hamilton, M.B. On August 22, 2005, David Hamilton rescued a woman who had become stranded on a rock by the rising tide off the Morden shore, near French Cross, Nova Scotia.