OTTAWA — At just four years old, Wendy Jocko knew she wanted to join the military.
She was riding her tricycle down the street in Petawawa, Ont., when she saw a man in a military uniform walking out of a convenience store across from her family home.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails. Postmedia Network Inc.
When Jocko first reported to her company sergeant, she said he made it clear he didn’t approve of her being there. One of the leading female Indigenous veterans was Charlotte Edith Anderson Monture from Six Nations of the Grand River in Ontario. She was Canada’s first Indigenous registered nurse, but she had to leave the country to get her education. She was working in New York state in 1917 when the United States entered the First World War, and she signed up as part of the U.S. army nurse corps.
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