Red Cross Outpost Hospital in Wilbeforce, Ontario, 1935.The outpost hospital program reached its peak in the early 1950’s with almost 90 outpost units across Canada.
Red Cross Outpost Hospital in Wilbeforce, Ontario, 1935.
Red Cross Outpost Hospital in Wilbeforce, Ontario, 1940s. Nurse Elsie Turner Metcalfe with Beatrice Herlihey & daughter Gloria Jane in the mid-forties.
The Red Cross continued supporting victims of war by sending a Medical-Social Welfare team to Korea and later participated in the exchange of Prisoners of War.
On the international scene the Canadian Red Cross administered the Canadian Hungarian Fund and operated refugee camps in Austria and the Netherlands.