Finding the Forty-Seven: Canadian Nurses of the First World War

A kind reader from overseas, has sent me two photos of the gravestones of Ainslie St. Clair Dagg and Miriam Eastman Baker. She writes: ...

Yesterday I wrote a short blog about Dorothy Pearson Twist. Little did I know, but there was a Red Cross service card enroute to me with mor...

In an excellent article entitled "Filling the Gaps, Canadian Voluntary Nurses, the 1917 Halifax Explosion, and the Influenza Epidemic o...

Hello again. I haven't been blogging lately as I have been immersed in doing WWI-related research and preparing to participate in an upc...

According to her military records, Rena Maude McLean was born on June 14, 1880 in Souris, P.E.I. (although family records indicate her birt...

"Unflinchingly and calmly, as steady and collected as if on parade, without a complaint or a single sign of emotion, our fourteen devo...

On their website, The Canadian Great War Project has reprinted an article from the Toronto World of Wednesday, September 25, 1918, entitled...

I've just returned from a tour of the battlefields and cemeteries of the First World War in Belgium and France. It was a moving, poignan...

In The Daughters of Mars by Tom Keneally (Vintage: 2012), two Australian sisters--Sally and Naomi Durrance--join the Australian military nu...

Researcher Tony Murphy of Great Britain has kindly allowed me to post the story of Sadie St. Germain, which he put together with the help ...