Historical
Pre World War I
War and the Militarization of British Army Medicine, 1793-1830
TITLE: War and the Militarization of British Army Medicine, 1793-1830 Author: Catherine Kelly Publisher: Pickering Chatto Ltd, United Kingdom (2011) ISBN 1848931832, 9781848931831 During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, British...
The Medical and Surgical History of the Canadian North West Rebellion of 1885
TITLE: The Medical and Surgical History of the Canadian North West Rebellion of 1885Author: John Lovell & SonPublisher: Montreal, 1886 The book provides insight on the early years of military medicine in Canada and Canada’s first Surgeon General Darby...
World War I
Battlefront Nurse in WW I
TITLE: Battlefront Nurse in WW I Author: Maureen Duffus Publisher: Victoria, BC, 2009 The story of four years in the lives of two nursing sisters who enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Esquimalt, British Columbia, in the summer...
WW1 Nursing Sisters of Old Durham County
TITLE: WW1 Nursing Sisters of Old Durham County Author: Publisher: This book features 36 nurses from WW1 who had a connection to the old Durham County. Find out what their lives were like ‘over there’; what happened during their service?;...
Sister Soldiers of the Great War: The Nurses of the Canadian Army Medical Corps
TITLE: Sister Soldiers of the Great War: The Nurses of the Canadian Army Medical CorpsAuthor: Cynthia TomanPublisher: Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2016. Pp. 312.
Nursing Sisters, Canada
TITLE: Nursing Sisters, Canada Author: Harold A. Skaarup Publisher: That at the beginning of the Great War of 1914-18 there were five Permanent Force nurses and 57 listed in reserves. By 1917, the Canadian Army Nursing Service included 2,030...
Help Us, Serve England: First World War Military Nursing and National Identities
TITLE: “Help Us, Serve England”: First World War Military Nursing and National Identities Author: Cynthia Toman Publisher: Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Volume 30:1 2013/p. 143-166 This article explores the working relationships of...
Canadian physicians, surgeons and medicine in the First World War: Resource List
TITLE: Author: Publisher: This resource list was created as a joint venture by the Canadian Medical Association, the College of Family Physicians of Canada and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada to mark the centenary of...
First Aid: Nurses in the RCN, WWI
TITLE: First Aid: Nurses in the RCN, WWIAuthor: John Webber, Lt (N) Retd.Publisher: CFB Esquimalt Naval & Military Museum
Royal Canadian Navy Medical Service During WWI
TITLE: Royal Canadian Navy Medical Service During WWIAuthor: Sir Andrew MacphailPublisher: Excerpt from the book History of the Canadian Forces–the Medical Services
Canadian Medical Unit War Diaries
TITLE: Canadian Medical Unit War Diaries Author: Publisher: The Canadian Great War Project has compiled a list of Canadian medical unit war diaries. Click here to view the list of units.
Guide to Sources Relating to Units of the Canadian Expeditionary Force – Canadian Army Medical Corps
TITLE: Guide to Sources Relating to Units of the Canadian Expeditionary Force – Canadian Army Medical CorpsAuthor: Library and Archives CanadaPublisher:Included are field ambulance units, casualty clearing stations, general hospitals, stationery hospitals,...
Politics and the Canadian Army Medical Corps
TITLE: Politics and the Canadian Army Medical Corps Author: Colonel Herbert A. Bruce Publisher: William Briggs, Toronto, 1919 A history of intrigue containing many facts omitted from the official records showing how efforts at rehabilitation...
The Medical Services
TITLE: The Medical ServicesAuthor: Sir Andrew MacPhailPublisher: Department of National Defence This is the official of the Canadian military service in the Great War 1914 -1918. Sir Andrew MacPhail was Professor of the History of Medicine at McGill...
The CAMC with the Canadian Corps During the Last Hundred Days of the Great War
War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps 1914-1915
TITLE: War Story of the Canadian Army Canadian Expeditionary Medical Corps 1914-1915Author: J. George AdamiPublisher: George Adami, MD, FRS, (Temporary Colonel C.A.M.C.) A.D.M.S. was in Charge of Records, Office of Director-General, Medical Services,...
The Medical War: British Military Medicine in the First World War
TITLE: The Medical War: British Military Medicine in the First World War Author: Mark Harrison Publisher: The first book on medicine in the First World War to provide wide-ranging geographical and thematic coverage of medicine. Considers the...
Pre World War II
Battlefront Nurse in WW I
TITLE: Battlefront Nurse in WW I Author: Maureen Duffus Publisher: Victoria, BC, 2009 The story of four years in the lives of two nursing sisters who enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Esquimalt, British Columbia, in the summer...
WW1 Nursing Sisters of Old Durham County
TITLE: WW1 Nursing Sisters of Old Durham County Author: Publisher: This book features 36 nurses from WW1 who had a connection to the old Durham County. Find out what their lives were like ‘over there’; what happened during their service?;...
Sister Soldiers of the Great War: The Nurses of the Canadian Army Medical Corps
TITLE: Sister Soldiers of the Great War: The Nurses of the Canadian Army Medical CorpsAuthor: Cynthia TomanPublisher: Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2016. Pp. 312.
Nursing Sisters, Canada
TITLE: Nursing Sisters, Canada Author: Harold A. Skaarup Publisher: That at the beginning of the Great War of 1914-18 there were five Permanent Force nurses and 57 listed in reserves. By 1917, the Canadian Army Nursing Service included 2,030...
Help Us, Serve England: First World War Military Nursing and National Identities
TITLE: “Help Us, Serve England”: First World War Military Nursing and National Identities Author: Cynthia Toman Publisher: Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Volume 30:1 2013/p. 143-166 This article explores the working relationships of...
Korea
Though some insist it should be referred to as the “Korean Conflict” or a police action because the participants never officially declared “war,” there are few veterans who would disagree that the fighting in Korea between 1950 and 1953 was as bitter as any war.
Canadian Nursing Sisters in the Korean War
TITLE: Canadian Nursing Sisters in the Korean War Author: Michael Bedford Publisher: Friends of the Canadian War Museum (2013) During the United Nations Operations in Korea, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps Nursing Sisters served in Japan...
Decades of Change
A Sketch of Military Medicine in Canada 1867–2009
TITLE: A Sketch of Military Medicine in Canada 1867 – 2009 Author: Rice, Gary H. Publisher: Carleton Place: CEHR Publishing of Mississippi Mills, 2009 ISBN 696978-0-9681696-8-1 This story is a chronological sketch of the evolution of...
The Myriad Challenges of Peace: Canadian Forces Medical Practitioners Since the Second World War
TITLE: The Myriad Challenges of Peace: Canadian Forces Medical Practitioners Since the Second World War Author: Publisher: Ottawa: Canadian Government Publishing, 2004 This document is a narrative of how health care was organized, practised,...
A Story of the Canadian Forces Medical Service as Told by the Colonel Commandant on the Occasion of CFMS 25th Cover the 25th Anniversary
TITLE: A Story of the Canadian Forces Medical Service as Told by the Colonel Commandant on the Occasion ofCFMS 25th Cover the 25th Anniversary Author: MGen (Retd) J.W.B Barr, CMM, KStJ, CD, QHP, MD, CM, DHA Publisher: This recently...
Seventy Years of Service: a History of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps
TITLE: Seventy Years of Service: a History of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps Author: G. W. L. Nicholson Publisher: Ottawa: Borealis Press, 1977. – 388 p. ISBN 0919594611.
Canadian Forces Medical Services: Introduction to its History and Heritage
TITLE: Canadian Forces Medical Services: Introduction to its History and Heritage Author: Director General Health Services Publisher: Department of National Defence, Ottawa, 2003 This document provides a concise history of the Canadian Forces...
General
Between Flesh and Steel
TITLE: Between Flesh and Steel: A History of Military Medicine from the Middle Ages to the War in Afghanistan Author: Richard A. Gabriel Publisher: Potomac Books Inc. (2013) ISBN 978-1-61234-420-1 Military historian Richard A. Gabriel focuses on three...