Canada's Nursing Sisters
Author: Gerald W. L. Nicholson
Publisher: A.M. Hakkert
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13:
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Sister Soldiers of the Great War
Author: Cynthia Toman
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2016-07-22
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 0774832169
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“I am on night duty ... on what is supposed to be the ‘hopeless ward’ so you can imagine, or try to, just what I am doing. I know you cannot really have the faintest idea ...” In Sister Soldiers of the Great War, award-winning author Cynthia Toman recovers the long-lost history of Canada’s first women soldiers – nursing sisters who enlisted as officers with the Canadian Army Medical Corps. These experienced professional nurses left their friends, families, and jobs to enlist in the army. Granted relative rank and equal pay to men, they had a mandate to salvage as many sick and wounded men as possible for return to the front lines. Nothing prepared them for poor living conditions, the scale of casualties, or the type of wounds they encountered, but their letters and diaries reveal that they were determined to soldier on under all circumstances while still “living as well as possible.”
Greatcoats and Glamour Boots
Author: Carolyn Gossage
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2001-11-01
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 1459712943
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWomen in the military? To many, never was too soon. But by 1940, British women were out "doing their bit" for the war effort, and Canadians battled for that same right. Young Canadian women wanted to serve their country, "to free a man to fight," as the recruiting posters urged. By the war’s end almost 50,000 of them were in the forces. Carolyn Gossage has compiled a fascinating collage of anecdotal and documentary material. The colourful story of Canada’s "forgotten women" - those who volunteered for service during World War II in the RCAF Women’s division, the Canadian Women’s Army Corps (CWAC) and the Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service (Wrens) - entertains and enlightens.
Agnes Warner and the Nursing Sisters of the Great War
Author: Shawna M. Quinn
Publisher: New Brunswick Military Heritag
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780864926333
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes Nursing Sister Agnes Warner's wartime letters which were published under the title "My Beloved Poilus."
The War Diary of Clare Gass
Author: Clare Gass
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780773528383
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe diary of a nurse who served with the Canadian Army Medical Corps in France during the First World War.
War-Torn Exchanges
Author: Andrea McKenzie
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2016-05-15
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 0774832568
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLaura Holland and Mildred Forbes, an inseparable duo, set off from Montreal in June 1915 to serve as nursing sisters in the Great War. Over the next four years, the two cared for each other through sickness and health, air raids and bombings, unrelenting work and adventurous leaves. War-Torn Exchanges offers unprecedented insight into the daily lives of Canada’s First World War nurses – from the privations of Gallipoli to the heavy casualties of Passchendaele and beyond. This carefully curated and contextualized collection of letters challenges the popular myth of nurses as wartime angels. Instead, Mildred and Laura’s letters are filled with the nurses’ fears and frustrations, humour and keen observations – revealing how they relied on friendship, wry wit, and professional ethics to carry on in the face of mismanagement, discrimination, illness, deprivation, and trauma.
On All Frontiers
Author: Christina Bates
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 2005-04-30
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0776616676
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNursing has a long and varied history in Canada. Since the founding of the first hospital by the Augustine nuns in 1637, nurses have contributed greatly to Canadians' quality of life. On All Frontiers is a comprehensive history of Canadian nursing. Editors Christina Bates, Dianne Dodd, and Nicole Rousseau have brought together a vast body of research into one volume. Authored by leading experts, the chapters and vignettes form an overview of the history of Canadian nursing to date. From the midwives of early Canada to urban public health nurses, from remote outposts to the battlefields of Europe, On All Frontiers documents the hardships, challenges, and achievements of Canadian nurses. Richly illustrated with archival photographs, it will prove essential to scholars of Canadian health care history.
This Small Army of Women
Author: Linda J. Quiney
Publisher:
Published: 2018-01-15
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780774830720
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBook tells the story of two thousand nurses from Canada and Newfoundland who volunteered overseas and at home in the First World War. Using several historical sources, Quiney describes the effort of well-educated and middle-class but mostly untrained Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) nurses, who helped solve the nursing deficit of Britain.
A History of Women in the Canadian Military
Author: Barbara Dundas
Publisher: Art Global
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9782920718791
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book traces the history of women in the Canadian military, including: their service as nurses in the late 19th & early 20th century (in the North West Rebellion, the Yukon Field Force, and the South African War); the creation of a military nursing service & participation in the First World War; creation of women's divisions in the armed forces in World War II; women war artists; demobilization & then re-establishment of women's organizations in the post-war period; military nursing in the Korean War and the rest of the 1950s; decline in women's military participation to 1965; and the subsequent expansion of women's military roles toward achieving gender equality.
Our Bit: Memories of War Service by a Canadian Nursing-Sister
Author: Mabel B. Clint
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-08-01
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Our Bit: Memories of War Service by a Canadian Nursing-Sister" by Mabel B. Clint. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
