Canadian Nurses WW1

3141 Canadian women in total volunteered to serve as nursing sisters in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps for WWI. Of those, 2504 served overseas in England, France, Gallipoli, Alexandria, and Salonika. Women working as nurses was not a new thing by this point, women had been a part of the Canadian Army Medical Corps since the 1885 Northwest Rebellion and they served during the Boer War. When the opportunity to join the Great War as a nursing sister first came available in 1915, there were reportedly 2,000 applicants for just 75 positions. These women were required to be trained nurses before the war and they earned $4.10 a day. Canada’s nurses were between the ages of 21 and 38 and most were single.
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