• Awarded on: November 24, 2004

Joseph Alcide Gagnon, Moncton, New Brunswick
Governor General's Caring Canadian Award


Joseph Gagnon has helped disadvantaged people in the most practical way, by making sure they have their daily bread. In the mid-1980s, he established a soup kitchen and co founded Food Bank Moncton Inc., giving generously of his time and often of his money. He later set up the New Brunswick Association of Food Banks and served with the Canadian Association of Food Banks. Since the 1960s, he has been instrumental in organizing and leading the Knights of Columbus in Moncton and throughout New Brunswick, and has contributed to the Kiwanis Club. Although enjoying retirement, he continues to take a keen interest in the charities to which he has given so much.