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The Canadian Red Cross was established in the fall of 1896 as an affiliate of the British Red Cross Society (then known as the National Society for Aid to the Sick and Wounded in War). George Ryerson , who had founded Canada's St. John Ambulance Association in 1895, spearheaded the organization's founding. [ 5 ]
The Canadian Red Cross set the standards for health and safety in the collection, testing, storage, and distribution of blood and its components until 1989. [9] In 1981, the Canadian Blood Committee was created by the provincial ministers of health and funded the Red Cross's blood transfusion service. [9]
He became an Overseas Delegate for the Canadian Red Cross in 2002, after serving as Red Cross team leader on floods on the Blood Reserve in Standoff, Alberta. In 2003-2004 he investigated a growing migrant worker crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border and wrote a cover story about the issue for Red Cross Red Crescent magazine.
In 1914, during the First World War, the Astor family invited the Canadian Red Cross to build a military hospital on part of the Cliveden estate. [1] The Red Cross built a small hospital, the HRH Duchess of Connaught Hospital, on the site. [2] It was named after the Duchess of Connaught who had served as Viceregal consort of Canada. [3]
Wilberforce Red Cross Outpost was constructed from 1914 to 1916, initially as a private residence. [2] In 1922, due to their limited funding, the Canadian Red Cross rented the building. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] From then until 1957, it was used by the Red Cross as a nursing station, a health centre, an emergency hospital, and a residence for the nurse ...
The organization PATH Canada, the Canadian Red Cross, and the Canadian Nurses Association sought a way to remember their service and began a project to realize a monument in their and other fallen aid workers' honor. The monument itself was dedicated four years later on June 28, 2001.
John Alexander MacAulay, CC QC (May 29, 1892 – November 6, 1978) was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, and community volunteer from Winnipeg, Manitoba.He was a member of the Canadian Red Cross Society, as well as the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, eventually serving as the chairman of the Board of Governors of the International League of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
Ryerson helped establish the St John Ambulance Association in Ontario and the Canadian Red Cross Society. On November 14, 1882, he married Mary Amelia Crowther, daughter of barrister James Crowther. They had five children: George Crowther (born 1883), Yoris Sterling (born 1886), Eric Egerton (born 1888), Arthur Connaught (born 1890), and Laura ...