Awarded on: 2007-06-11
Dianne Breton, Ottawa, Ontario
Governor General's Caring Canadian Award
For almost 25 years, Dianne Breton has contributed her skills and knowledge to promote the advancement of causes related to seniors and persons with disabilities. She designed and implemented special computer programs for deaf and physically disabled students at the Mackay Centre in Montreal. Since 1992, she has helped to develop numerous outreach programs for seniors in Ottawa through her affiliation with both the Abbotsford Senior Centre Committee and the Glebe Centre. She also joined the Causeway Work Centre, an agency assisting persons with chronic mental illness, where she became the head of the fundraising committee and provided leadership in a number of roles on the board or directors. An upstanding volunteer, she is currently president of the Causeway Foundation and a board member of the Council on Aging of Ottawa.