Awarded on: 1998-12-10
Monica Mary Byrne, Ottawa, Ont.
Governor General's Caring Canadian Award
Volunteer Registrar of Parent Finders since 1989, Monica Byrne has maintained records on members and more than 10,000 births. She has devoted herself to promoting adoption reform and has personally contributed to the well-being of thousands of adoptees, adoptive parents and birth parents by helping them cope with a variety of adoption issues. Mrs. Byrne is able to reduce their fears and anxieties, and helps adoptees to reach a new level of understanding, calm and healing.