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The Fire Services Exemplary Service Medal was created on August 29, 1985, to recognize firefighters who have served in an exemplary manner, exhibiting good conduct, industry and efficiency. They must have completed twenty years of such service and have served as a member of a recognized Canadian fire service on or after the Medal's creation date. Recognized fire services include Canadian fire departments, fire marshals' offices, fire commissioners' offices and the Canadian Forces fire services. Consideration is only given to periods of service for which no other long service, good conduct or efficiency decoration or medal has been awarded by the Crown. The Medal may be awarded posthumously.
An advisory committee, composed of the president and immediate past president of each of the Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs and the Association of Canadian Fire Marshals and Fire Commissioners, appoints members to provincial and territorial awards committees. The chairperson of the awards committee of the jurisdiction in which the nominee serves submits nominations to the Chancellery, the branch of the Office of the Governor General responsible for the administration of honours. The Chancellery then submits the recommendation to the Governor General. The Medal is formally presented on behalf of the Governor General by the chairperson of the appropriate awards committee or by the person who nominated the recipient of the award.
The Medal consists of a circular medal, which features, on the obverse, a stylized maple leaf bearing a fire hydrant with crossed axes, upon which a Maltese cross is centred. The whole is circumscribed with the words "Exemplary Service - Services distingu‰s". On the reverse appears the Royal Cipher. The Medal is suspended by a ribbon of five equal stripes, two gold and three red.
A bar, bearing a stylized maple leaf centred upon it, may be awarded to a recipient of the Medal in respect of each additional ten-year period of service in the Canadian fire service, after the twenty-year service recognized by the Medal, if that service is of such good standard as to warrant it.
The Fire Services Exemplary Service Medal is part of the Canadian Honours System established in 1967.
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