Fire Services Exemplary Service Medal

Award

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
Status	Currently awarded
Established	29 August 1985
Precedence
Next (higher)	Corrections Exemplary Service Medal^[1]
Next (lower)	Canadian Coast Guard Exemplary Service Medal^[1]

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]

Description

The 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]

References

^ ^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.