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  2. Canadian Red Cross - Wikipedia

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    The Canadian Red Cross Society (French: La Société canadienne de la Croix-Rouge) [1] is a Canadian humanitarian charitable organization, and one of 192 national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies. The organization receives funding from both private donations and from Canadian government departments.

  3. Royal Commission of Inquiry on the Blood System in Canada

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    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]

  4. List of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - Wikipedia

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    The German Red Cross (DRK) was founded in 1921, bringing together various independent Red Cross associations that had previously operated autonomously within the German states. These regional branches trace their origins back to the former independent members of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

  5. St. John Ambulance Canada - Wikipedia

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    1946 Canadian Order elevated to status of Priory becoming the Priory in Canada; 1951 Canadian Red Cross (CRC) and St John Ambulance in Canada sign the St. John Ambulance-Canadian Red Cross Joint Operations Agreement in which SJAC recedes from offering blood services and the CRC recedes from offering First Aid training to industry.

  6. Emblems of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent ...

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    The Red Cross symbol. The Red Cross on white background was the original protection symbol declared at the 1864 Geneva Convention. The ideas to introduce a uniform and neutral protection symbol as well as its specific design originally came from Dr. Louis Appia, a Swiss surgeon, and Swiss General Henri Dufour, founding members of the International Committee.

  7. Category:Health charities in Canada - Wikipedia

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    Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research; Canadian Digestive Health Foundation; Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research; Canadian Hemophilia Society; Canadian Injured Workers Alliance; Canadian Medical Hall of Fame; Canadian Network for International Surgery; Canadian Organization for Rare Disorders; Canadian Red Cross; Canadian Stem Cell ...

  8. Héma-Québec - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Royal Life Saving Society Canada - Wikipedia

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    In 2012, the Lifesaving Society joined forces with the Canadian Red Cross and the Public Health Agency of Canada to launch the Open Water Wisdom initiative, which is a community water activity safety program dedicated to bringing awareness to recreational water safety issues nationally and in hundreds of remote communities across Canada. [6] [7 ...