Canadian Nursing Sister will be honoured in Naval Ship naming

Posted on: April 17, 2015

Margaret Brooke, who just turned 100 years old and lives in Victoria, BC,  was a nursing sister in the Royal Canadian Navy in 1942, and was on board the SS Caribou when it was hit by a German torpedo and sank off the coast of Newfoundland.

Click on the links below to read the story of her heroism and see her photos.

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