Military & Veteran Organizations
Veteran Support
The Pepper Pod
Retreat and programming for women in the veteran community.
Respect Forums Canada
Creating a network among organizations who support CAF & RCMP veterans, emergency responders, and their families.
True Patriot Love
True Patriot Love is Canada’s foundation for the military community, supporting Canadian Armed Forces members, Veterans, and their families through grants, research, and advocacy to improve well-being, inspire recovery, strengthen families, and foster community connection.
Wounded Warriors Canada
Wounded Warriors Canada is a national mental health service provider dedicated to serving trauma exposed professionals, their families, and organizations.
Veteran Transisition Network
The Veterans Transition Network is the only Canadian charity delivering mental health services specifically for Veterans from coast to coast.
Royal Canadian Legion
The Royal Canadian Legion makes a real difference in the lives of Veterans and their families, offering vital support programs, helping communities thrive, and keeping the memory of those who sacrificed for Canada alive.
Military Nursing
Canadian Nurses Foundation
Are you an outstanding nursing student currently studying in Canada? Do you need money to help pay for books, tuition, and the occasional coffee? If you answered yes, then you have come to the right place! CNF offers a variety of scholarships with specific criteria to one-in-five applicants across Canada every year! Are you embarking on a Master’s degree in Nursing? You may be eligible for the Military Nurses of Canada Award scholarship.
The Nursing Sisters of Canada
This tribute to Canadian Nursing Sisters at Veterans Affairs Canada tells of these brave and dedicated women. Their story is one of humour as well as anguish. It is a story of unyielding women who braved all the hardships of war to do their duty and care for their patients, and of those who nursed the casualties left in the wake of war.
Heritage Minutes: Nursing Sisters
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A reflection of Nursing Sisters at No. 3 Canadian Stationary Hospital in France during the First World War.
Fighting Against Death: Canadian Medical Personnel in Afghanistan
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Watch on YouTube. Hear Captain Mary Ann Barber, critical care nursing officer, and others in this reflection on the Afghanistan Mission. From 2001 to 2014, Canadian Armed Forces medical personnel served in Afghanistan, providing life-saving care in active combat zones, under constant threat of fire. To mark the 25th anniversary of Canadians arriving in Afghanistan, three Memory Project speakers, all Canadian Armed Forces veterans and medical experts, shared their stories from the Kandahar Airfield Hospital and Forward Operating Bases, as they fought to save Canadians, allies, and even their enemies using groundbreaking medical techniques through some of the fiercest fighting in recent Canadian military history.
Canadian War Museum – Canada and the First World War
More than 2,800 nurses served in the Canadian Army Medical Corps (CAMC), as fully-enlisted officers in the specially-created all female rank of Nursing Sister, with relative rank and equal pay to men – the first women among the Allied forces to do so. Nicknamed “bluebirds” because of their blue uniforms and white veils, Canada’s nursing sisters saved lives by caring for wounded and sick soldiers as well as convalescents, prisoners of war, and even civilians on occasion.
During the war, everything came to us. It was a non-stop flow of mangled bodies for the time that I was there. It was some of the most heartbreaking times of my life.