Fire Services Exemplary Service Medal

Award

Fire Services Exemplary Service Medal

Obverse and reverse of the medal (with bar)

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

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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]

## See also

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* Canadian order of precedence (decorations and medals)

## References

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1. ^ a b "Order of Precedence". The Governor General of Canada. Retrieved 29 June 2013.
2. ^ a b FIRE SERVICES EXEMPLARY SERVICE MEDAL REGULATIONS (PDF). Ottawa: The Chancellery of Honours. 2006. pp. 2–7\. ISBN 9781100540337.
3. ^ "Fire Services Exemplary Service Medal". www.alberta.ca. Retrieved 2021-06-02.
4. ^ McCreery, Christopher (2008). The Canadian honours system desiderantes meliorem patriam. Toronto: Dundurn Press. pp. 271–272\. ISBN 9781554880171.

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