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Canadian Nursing Sisters
This tribute to Canadian Nursing Sisters tells of these brave and dedicated women. Their story is one of humour as well as anguish. It is a story of unyielding women who braved all the hardships of war to do their duty and serve their patients, and of those who nursed the casualties left in the wake of war.
Military nursing had its beginnings in the Crimean War, although the tradition of alleviating the sufferings of soldiers is an old one. The organizing of battle nursing and the dispatch of women as nurses, begun by Florence Nightingale for the British, soon found its way to Canada.
On June 26, 1885, through a Brigade Order sent by Major-General J.W. Laurie, Nursing Sisters took to the field with Canadian troops. From the North-West Campaign on Nursing Sisters joined every military force sent out by Canada, from the Boer War to Korea. Over the years the devotion and efficiency of the Nursing Sisters of Canada have earned them a very high reputation among the troops with whom they served and to whom they ministered.
Nursing Sister War History
History of the Nursing Sisters Association of Canada
The Nursing Sisters' Memorial
Facts on Canada's Nursing Sisters
Photo Album
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