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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.
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]
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.
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 organized International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a humanitarian movement with approximately 16 million volunteers, members, and staff worldwide.It was founded to protect human life and health, to ensure respect for all human beings, and to prevent and alleviate human suffering.
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.
Edith Campbell, RRC, MM (12 December 1871 – 1951) was a Canadian nurse.She served with the Canadian Army Medical Corps in the First World War and was one of the first Canadian nurses to arrive in England to assist in the establishment of the Duchess of Connaught Canadian Red Cross Hospital, a field hospital in Taplow, Buckinghamshire, and serve during the First World War.