• Awarded on: January 30, 2014

Hector H. Marois
Edmonton, Alberta

Hector Marois has dedicated the past 26 years to volunteering at Unit 9Y, a short term palliative care unit at the Covenant Health Edmonton General Continuing Care Centre. He does the morning shift to help distribute breakfast trays and feed the patients; he takes on the orientation of newly arrived families and patients, educating them to the services available to them; and at Christmas, he is the Santa Claus at Unit 9Y and fifteen other celebrations around the Centre. In the summer, however, he takes a two-week break: this is the time he gives to serve as volunteer director at a camp for senior citizens.