• Awarded on: November 16, 2005

Giuseppina Paola Di Paolo, Montreal, Quebec
Governor General's Caring Canadian Award

In 1981, Canadians were distraught to hear of Terry Fox's lost battle against cancer. In response, Giuseppina Di Paolo organized a 10K Terry Fox Walkathon, that same year, at École secondaire Lester B. Pearson High School in Montreal, where she teaches Canadian history. The school has raised a total of $225 000 for the Terry Fox Campaign thus far, the most of any Canadian school, and continues its commitment to this annual fundraiser for cancer research. She has also initiated other programs in the school: a Remembrance Day tribute to war veterans, a Canadian citizenship ceremony and the Big Brother/Big Sister Program.