page_title: 2012 Canadian honours
section_title: Meritorious Service Cross (Military Division)
hierarchical_section_title: 2012 Canadian honours / Meritorious Service Decorations / Meritorious Service Cross (Military Division)
caption_attribution_description: English: U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Canadian Gen. Jonathan Vance, Canadian Armed Forces Chief of Defence Staff, pose for a photo before an office call during a visit to Ottawa, Canada, Feb. 28, 2018. Gen. Dunford was in Ottawa for meetings with senior Canadian officials on the ongoing evolution of the North American Aerospace Defense Command. (DoD Photo by U.S. Army Sgt. James K. McCann)
context_page_description: The following are the appointments to various Canadian Honours of 2012. Usually, they are announced as part of the New Year and Canada Day celebrations and are published within the Canada Gazette during year. This follows the custom set out within the United Kingdom which publishes its appoints of various British Honours for New Year's and for monarch's official birthday. However, instead of the midyear appointments announced on Victoria Day, the official birthday of the Canadian Monarch, this custom has been transferred with the celebration of Canadian Confederation and the creation of the Order of Canada.
  However, as the Canada Gazette publishes appointment to various orders, decorations and medal, either Canadian or from Commonwealth and foreign states, this article will reference all Canadians so honoured during the 2012 calendar year.
  Provincial Honours are not listed within the Canada Gazette, however they are listed within the various publications of each provincial government. Provincial honours are listed within the page.
  2012 was also the year of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada.
context_section_description: BRIGADIER-GENERAL KENNETH ANDRÉ CORBOULD, O.M.M., M.S.C., C.D.
  COLONEL DEAN JAMES MILNER, O.M.M., M.S.C., C.D.
  BRIGADIER-GENERAL CRAIG RANDALL KING, O.M.M., M.S.C., C.D., M.B.E.
  LIEUTENANT-COLONEL CONRAD JOSEPH JOHN MIALKOWSKI, M.S.C., C.D.
  BRIGADIER-GENERAL DAVID GORDON NEASMITH, O.M.M., M.S.C., C.D.
  MAJOR-GENERAL MICHAEL JAMES WARD, M.S.C., C.D.
  LIEUTENANT-GENERAL JOSEPH JACQUES CHARLES BOUCHARD, C.M.M., M.S.C., C.D.
  COLONEL CHRISTIAN DROUIN, M.S.C., C.D.
  BRIGADIER-GENERAL JOSEPH MARCEL MARQUIS HAINSE, M.S.C., C.D.
  COLONEL SIMON CHARLES HETHERINGTON, M.S.C., C.D.
  ADMIRAL MICHAEL GLENN MULLEN, M.S.C. (United States Navy)
  CHIEF WARRANT OFFICER SHAWN DOUGLAS STEVENS, M.S.C., M.S.M., C.D.
  BRIGADIER-GENERAL JONATHAN HOLBERT VANCE, O.M.M., M.S.C., C.D.
  CHIEF WARRANT OFFICER JOSEPH SIMON ARMAND VINET, M.M.M., M.S.C., C.D.
  LIEUTENANT-COLONEL FRANCIS JEROME WALSH, M.S.C., C.D.
  ADMIRAL JAMES ALEXANDER WINNEFELD, JR., M.S.C. (United States Navy)
caption: General Joseph Jonathan Vance, recipient of the Meritorious Service Cross
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