Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II Royal Victorian Order Association of Canada and to "honour of the 60th anniversary of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s accession to the Throne." The Earl also distributed Diamond Jubilee Medals to recipients in Toronto and to members of the RCMP in Iqaluit, Nunavut. The government of the NWT held through September an essay contest for youth to explain "how the Queen is important to First Nations and Métis people." A conference on the Canadian Crown was conducted in Saskatchewan on 25 October. The Governor General the following day unveiled a plaque identifying the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Trail, a
Jubilee Medal "300 Years of the Russian Navy" (). On the reverse, the relief inscription "1696-1996", in the lower part, laurel and oak branches around the image of crossed anchors (sea and river). The medal is suspended by a ring through the award's suspension loop to a standard Russian pentagonal mount covered with an overlapping 24 mm wide white silk moiré ribbon with two 7 mm wide blue stripes located 1 mm from the ribbon's edges. The individuals below were all recipients of the Jubilee Medal "300 Years of the Russian Navy". Jubilee Medal "300 Years of the Russian Navy" The Jubilee Medal "300 Years of the Russian