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Rena Maude McLean

"This trip more than half our patients are amputation cases and would make you heartsick only they are so cheerful and happy themselves."

Charles Edward Doherty

In September 1914 Doherty enlisted in the Canadian Army Medical Corps where he was placed on the staff of No. 1 General Hospital.

Frank Hamilton Mewburn

Mewburn's response to Sam Hughes telling him he was too old to enlist: “Reference your wire — go to hell! I am going anyway.”

Alexander Mackenzie Torrance Forbes

With no training in psychiatry, Forbes had the duty of interviewing soldiers who were thought to be unfit for service for psychiatric reasons.

Henry Norwest

Norwest became the greatest sniper among the Canadian troops at the front, and possibly the best in the British forces.

Frederick Ogilvie Loft

The First Nations of Canada owe a great deal to Onondeyoh/Fred Loft, an early 20th-century political visionary.

Albert Mountain Horse

"This young man was as strong a young fellow as there was on the reserve.”

James Alexander Macdonald

Macdonald’s presence exerted a moderating influence on the Globe’s response to the war.

David Wells

Wells’s experience demonstrates the hostility towards conscientious objectors, particularly of non-traditional pacifist church backgrounds during WWI.

John Anderson

Anderson’s name is probably most associated with daylight saving time, which Newfoundland, the first jurisdiction in North America to adopt it.