Le texte en français suit   NOTE: This is a repeat of an article published in the Canadian Journal of Surgery, Vol 61, No 5. 2018.   Message in a bottle: the discovery of a young Medical Officer’s map from the 1917 Battle of Hill 70.  The map, entitled Loos 36° NW 3’ was drawn by 24-year-old Captain Alexander Edward MacDonald in fall 1917 and was found in his old surgery textbook.  MacDonald’s map depicts the positions of the Canadian...

Learn about the evolution of Canada’s military medical services.

  The first CFHSTC Honorary Colonel was a member of the British Trans Arctic Expedition in 1968-69   Click here  to learn more   Le premier colonel honoraire du CTSHFC a été membre de l’expédition transarctique britannique en 1968-1969.   Cliquez ici pour en savoir plus       The origin of the motto of the Royal Canadian Medical Services / L’origine de la devise du Service de santé  royal...

Le texte en français suit    A commemorative photo album has been prepared to record and share photos of events held in Ottawa and Halifax on the 100th anniversary of  the torpedo sinking of HMHS Llandovery Castle. These events served to honour and remember those members of the Canadian Army Medical Corps who lost their lives. Click here to view album.   Texte en français commence      Un album de photos commémoratives...

Le texte en français suit  The CAMC with the Canadian Corps During the Last Hundred Days of the Great War  by Colonel A.E. Snell A new addition to the Virtual Museum Library, this book provides a good overview of the problems of the medical services in war,  of the methods by which the sick and wounded are cared for, and of the devotion and intelengence with which the duties od all ranks were discharged. Col Snell was Deputy Director...

Article published in French on May 10th 2017 in Le Droit newspaper to honour Lt Laura Gamble, one of the nursing sisters or Bluebirds as they were called, who served during WWI.  She is described as a heroine of the 150th anniversary of Confederation.  She was born in 1887 in Wakefield, Québec.  She joined No 4 Cdn Gen Hosp (U of T) in 1915 in Toronto. in May of the same year she was sent to England and then France to work as a nurse in No...