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    William Wasborough Foster

    William Wasborough Foster, military officer, public servant, mountaineer (b at Bristol, Eng 1875; d at Vancouver 2 Dec 1954). Energetic, capable and good-humoured, Foster immigrated to Canada in 1894 to work for the CPR before becoming BC's deputy minister of public works in 1910.

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    Women Doctors in the Second World War

    During the Second World War, female physicians joined the Canadian armed forces for the first time as commissioned officers. These trailblazers received the same pay and had the same ranks as men. Female physicians served as anesthetists, bacteriologist and radiologists in hospitals, both at home and overseas. (See also Women in the Canadian Armed Forces and History of the Canadian Armed Forces.)

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    Zouaves

    Between February 1868 and September 1870, 7 contingents totalling 507 Canadians enrolled in the papal army (whose soldiers were known as Papal Zouaves) to help defend Rome from the Italian troops who wanted to bring about Italian unification.

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