• Awarded on: December 2, 2020

Centenarian Joy Saunders has devoted more than 30 years to the Victorian Order of Nurses in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, as a volunteer in its foot care clinic, where she helped ensure her community received timely and compassionate care. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she walked 102 kilometres before her 102nd birthday, raising more than $79,000 for VON to honour the lives of two VON front-line caregivers.