The Fire Services Exemplary Service Medal (French: Médaille de pompiers pour services distingués) is a service medal created in 1985 by the Canadian monarch-in-Council. The medal recognizes members of recognized Canadian fire services who had served for 20 years, ten years of which have been served in the performance of duties involving potential risks. A bar, bearing a maple leaf in silver, is given for each additional 10 years served.[2] The medal is awarded by the Chancellery of Canadian Orders.[3]
| Fire Services Exemplary Service Medal | |
|---|---|
 Fire Services Exemplary Service Medal with bar obverse and reverse | |
| Type | Long service medal |
| Awarded for | 20 years' service in a recognized Canadian fire service |
| Presented by | The monarch of Canada.svg) |
| Status | Currently awarded |
| Established | 29 August 1985 |
| Precedence | |
| Next (higher) | Corrections Exemplary Service Medal[1] |
| Next (lower) | Canadian Coast Guard Exemplary Service Medal[1] |
Description
editThe Fire Services Exemplary Service Medal is circular medal made of silver coloured metal. The obverse of the medal depicts a fire hydrant with crossed axes and a Maltese Cross centred on a stylized maple leaf. Circumscribed around the maple leaf are the words EXEMPLARY SERVICE • SERVICES DISTINGUÉS. The reverse bears the Royal Cipher. The Medal is suspended by a ribbon of five equal stripes three red and two gold.[2]
Subsequent awards of the medal are denoted by a plain silver bar with a maple leaf in the centre, attached to the medal's suspension ribbon. When worn as an undress ribbon individuals who have been awarded a bar to the medal indicate this by wearing a silver maple leaf on the centre of the ribbon.[4]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Order of Precedence". The Governor General of Canada. Retrieved 29 June 2013.
- ^ a b FIRE SERVICES EXEMPLARY SERVICE MEDAL REGULATIONS (PDF). Ottawa: The Chancellery of Honours. 2006. pp. 2–7. ISBN 9781100540337.
- ^ "Fire Services Exemplary Service Medal". www.alberta.ca. Retrieved 2021-06-02.
- ^ McCreery, Christopher (2008). The Canadian honours system desiderantes meliorem patriam. Toronto: Dundurn Press. pp. 271–272. ISBN 9781554880171.