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Mr. Jeffery Michael Klymson

North York, Ontario

Decorations for Bravery

  • Medal of Bravery

    Awarded on: 2003-06-19
    Invested on: 2003-09-12
    On May 21, 2001, Jeffery Klymson rescued a child and two women who were caught in the fast-flowing Niagara River, three kilometres south of Niagara Falls, Ontario. The five-year-old boy who had slipped on rocks, and his mother who had found herself in difficulty while going after him, were being helped by a friend when all three were caught in the rapids and sucked into two whirlpools. Seeing the victims disappear under water, Mr. Klymson swam out to the first whirlpool, some three metres from shore and, fighting the current, brought the friend back onto the rocks. He then reached the larger eddy and pulled the mother with her son in her arms up to the surface and safely out of the turbulent waters.