• Awarded on: September 21, 2000

Archie and Viola Toole, Ottawa, Ont.
Governor General's Caring Canadian Award

Archie Toole is the founding president of the St. Ignatius St. Vincent de Paul Society. For more than thirty years, he and his wife, Viola, have quietly provided furniture, clothing and food, on a 24-hour-a-day, seven-days-a-week basis, to families in need, new Canadians, welfare recipients, single mothers and anyone else in need of help.