• Awarded on: June 11, 2007

Jeanne Tremblay-Thibeault, Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec
Governor General's Caring Canadian Award

The entire Baie-Saint-Paul community has so benefited from Jeanne Tremblay-Thibeault's leadership abilities and inexhaustible devotion that she has been lovingly nicknamed "Auntie Jeanne". Even back in the 1960s, she helped organize the community's folk festival and today chairs the Théâtre en Fête cultural festival. She was a founding member of the Groupe d'Action des 50 ans et plus de Charlevoix and one of the co-founders of the local Daughters of Isabella circle, with whom she has shared her recipes and her advice. With consistent commitment and dedication, she has broken down the solitude of the elderly and recluse, has discreetly helped the less fortunate, has comforted the sick and has acted as a source of inspiration for people of all ages in Baie-Saint-Paul.