Awarded on: 2020-05-06
Former Ottawa mayor Jacquelin Holzman has been dedicated to her community since the 1960s, volunteering with such organizations as the Royal Ottawa Hospital, the Rehabilitation Institute of Ottawa and the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. Most recently, she co-founded Compassionate Ottawa in 2016, to empower families and individuals to discuss death, dying and grief as a normal part of life, and to help people live as long and as well as they can on their own terms.