Sovereign's Medal for Volunteers

Sovereign's Medal for Volunteers
Sovereign's Medal for Volunteer and Pin
TypeMedal (national)
Presented byThe monarch of Canada
StatusProgramme currently suspended due to Covid-19
EstablishedGovernor General's Caring Canadian Award: November 1995
Sovereign's Medal for Volunteers: 15 July 2015
First awardedGovernor General's Caring Canadian Award: 1995
Ribbon of the Sovereign's Medal for Volunteers
Precedence
Next (higher)Polar Medal[1]
Next (lower)Canadian Centennial Medal

The Sovereign's Medal for Volunteers (French: Médaille du souverain pour les bénévoles) is a Canadian medal intended to honour volunteers who have made a significant and continual contribution to their community, either in Canada or abroad. The medal was initially conceived by Governor General Roméo LeBlanc as the Governor General's Caring Canadian Award and created in November 1995, to award volunteers. It was replaced on 15 July 2015 by the Sovereign's Medal for Volunteers.

A series of Canadian miniature medals including the Sovereign's Medal for Volunteers (centre), court mounted. The other insignias are those of a Serving Member of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem (left), and the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal (right).
  1. ^ Office of the Governor General of Canada. "Order of Precedence". Queen's Printer for Canada. Retrieved 17 July 2015.