- Awarded on: February 23, 2012
RYAN CLAUDE WALKER
Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories
Over the past eight years, Ryan Claude Walker has demonstrated a true sense of community by participating in Operation Santa Claus, a program organized by the RCMP, in Tuktoyaktuk. Each Christmas, he has dressed up as Santa Claus and distributed thousands of gifts, heedless of the cold, to bring smiles to the faces of children and adults in his community. He volunteers for a number of other activities throughout the rest of the year and encourages other young people to do likewise. Mr. Walker makes his community proud.