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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]
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]
The site was made a national historic site because it highlights the role of nursing and health education in remote and rural locations in Canada. [2] The Canadian Red Cross program of building nursing outposts bolstered colonisation efforts and also demonstrated to government the need for healthcare in remote locations, advancing the creation of the social welfare state in Canada. [2]
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.
Héma-Québec is a non-profit organization that supplies blood and other biological products of human origin to hospitals for the Canadian province of Quebec.The organization's headquarters is located in the Montreal borough of Saint-Laurent, Quebec, and it was created on March 26, 1998, as a successor to the Canadian Red Cross Blood Program and the Canadian Blood Agency on recommendation of ...
The city turned to the Canadian Army and the Red Cross for help. Four of eleven bridges in the city were destroyed and approximately 100,000 people had to be evacuated from their homes and businesses. This was the largest evacuation in Canadian history until the 1979 Mississauga train derailment.
Origins of Canadian Red Cross Society outlined in Senate bill incorporating it [5] Union leaders object after Archbishop of St. John's disapproves of Fishermen's Protective Union as secret society [6] Report of Toronto lecture where British suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst explains rationale for extreme measures [7]