This book traces the history of women in the Canadian military, including: their service as nurses in the late 19th & early 20th century (in the North West Rebe

During the Second World War, more than 4,000 civilian nurses enlisted as Nursing Sisters, a specially created all-female officers' rank of the Canadian Armed Fo

Military institutions have everywhere and always shaped the course of history, but women’s near universal participation in them has largely gone unnoticed. Th

Many women who lived through the Second World War believed it heralded new status and opportunities. But did it? Making the Best of It examines how gender and o

“I am on night duty ... on what is supposed to be the ‘hopeless ward’ so you can imagine, or try to, just what I am doing. I know you cannot really have t