CANADIAN RED CROSS LATEST A+ QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS UNVAILED!
Red Cross is
rooted in providing relief to those in need. without any discrimination.
what happened on June 24th, 1859?
the Austrian and French armies clashed near Italian village of soldering, Henry Dunant, a Swiss citizen,
arrived in the area on business that evening.
he was horrified by what he saw, 40,000 dead and wounded soldiers from both sides left to suffer
unattended, abandoned to their fate. Dunant organized local villagers into first aid teams to help as
many of the wounded as possible, without discrimination, saving thousands of lives.
In 1862
On returning to Switzerland, Dunant wrote A Memory of Solferino, which advocated for national,
neutral relief societies that would aid army medical services in times of war. Durant published and
circulated the book as his own expense, and so the idea of the international Red Cross was then born.
In the spring of 1885,
During Louis Riel's Northwest Rebellion, Dr George Sterling Ryerson stitched a Red Cross made of cotton
onto white material and used this as a flag to distinguish the horse drawn wagon being used to transport
the wounded. this was one of the first Red Cross flags ever flown in Canada.
Dr Reversion founded the first
Overseas branch of the British Red Cross, which later become the Canadian Red Cross
Dunant won the first Nobel peace prize, by founding what is now the international Red Cross and red
crescent movement
He has saved the lives of millions of people.
On May 19, 1909
The Canadian Red Cross society act was approved by the parliament, and decreed that the Canadian Red
Cross would serve as an auxiliary to the government of Canada for Canadians, which was a measure that
was in accordance with the Geneva Conventions (prior to 1909, the Canadian Red Cross operated as a
branch of the British Red Cross), as a result, for more than a century, Canadians have had their own
national Red Cross society dedicated to improving the situations of the most vulnerable people in
Canada and around the world.
In 1927
the international committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) recognized the Canadian Red Cross as a full fledged
National Society, giving the organization full status in the league of the Red Cross and Red Crescent
Societies.
ANSWERS UNVAILED!
Red Cross is
rooted in providing relief to those in need. without any discrimination.
what happened on June 24th, 1859?
the Austrian and French armies clashed near Italian village of soldering, Henry Dunant, a Swiss citizen,
arrived in the area on business that evening.
he was horrified by what he saw, 40,000 dead and wounded soldiers from both sides left to suffer
unattended, abandoned to their fate. Dunant organized local villagers into first aid teams to help as
many of the wounded as possible, without discrimination, saving thousands of lives.
In 1862
On returning to Switzerland, Dunant wrote A Memory of Solferino, which advocated for national,
neutral relief societies that would aid army medical services in times of war. Durant published and
circulated the book as his own expense, and so the idea of the international Red Cross was then born.
In the spring of 1885,
During Louis Riel's Northwest Rebellion, Dr George Sterling Ryerson stitched a Red Cross made of cotton
onto white material and used this as a flag to distinguish the horse drawn wagon being used to transport
the wounded. this was one of the first Red Cross flags ever flown in Canada.
Dr Reversion founded the first
Overseas branch of the British Red Cross, which later become the Canadian Red Cross
Dunant won the first Nobel peace prize, by founding what is now the international Red Cross and red
crescent movement
He has saved the lives of millions of people.
On May 19, 1909
The Canadian Red Cross society act was approved by the parliament, and decreed that the Canadian Red
Cross would serve as an auxiliary to the government of Canada for Canadians, which was a measure that
was in accordance with the Geneva Conventions (prior to 1909, the Canadian Red Cross operated as a
branch of the British Red Cross), as a result, for more than a century, Canadians have had their own
national Red Cross society dedicated to improving the situations of the most vulnerable people in
Canada and around the world.
In 1927
the international committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) recognized the Canadian Red Cross as a full fledged
National Society, giving the organization full status in the league of the Red Cross and Red Crescent
Societies.
