Article 00F
The following is an incomplete list of some early Canadian ambulance personnel training programs.
1959 First Saskatchewan ambulance regulations
One person in the ambulance must have taken a Senior First Aid Course within the past 2 years (5 years for rural services) and must have attended a one-day advanced first aid course within the past 3 years
Source: The History of Sask. Ambulance & EMS page 25
1966 Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan Department of Public Health began annual 2-day Ambulance Attendants courses
Source: The History of Sask. Ambulance & EMS page 47
1966 USA
St. Vincent Hospital in New York City was the first in the USA to begin a mobile coronary unit
Source: The Paramedics page 4
1969 Ontario
The Ontario Ministry of Health began one-month Fundamentals of Casualty Care courses at Camp Borden.
Source: Bruce Newton, Toronto EMS
1970 Canada's first mobile intensive care unit
Dr. Peter Cohen's Resuscicar mobile intensive care unit operated from Aaron's Ambulance Service in Calgary
Source: British Columbia report Twice an Orphan
1970 Saanich BC
The City of Saanich Fire Deprtment operated the first coronary care ambulance in BC
Source: The British Columbia Ambulance Service page 45
1971 Canada's first Paramedics
The City of Calgary's first paramedics graduated from SAIT
Source: EMS Classics page 81
1972 Quebec's first mobile intensive care unit
Dr. Peter Cohen relocated from Calgary to Montreal and set up a mobile intensive care unit at the Royal Victoria Hospital
Source: The Province
1972 Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan's first one-week Emergency Care Course for Ambulance Personnel
Source: The History of Sask. Ambulance & EMS page 60
1972 Ontario's Emergency and Casualty Attendant program
This one-year community college course concluded by attending the Fundamentals of Casualty Care course at Camp Borden.
Source: Bruce Newton, Toronto EMS
1972 Ontario's first Paramedicine course
The Ministry of Health began a 33-week course at Hotel Dieu Hospital in Kingston, then cancelled it after the first year
Source: Bruce Newton, Toronto EMS
1974 First EMTs in Saskatchewan
Staff at Crescent Ambulance in Saskatoon passed the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons correspondence course for ambulance personnel
Source: Crestline - Building World Class Ambulances page 21
1978 Saskatchewan
The Saskatchewan Road Ambulance Association and the Saskatchewan Medical Association provided the first province-wide EMT course
Source: The History of Sask. Ambulance & EMS page 72
1978 Alberta's first EMTs
A distance training pilot program for EMTs was held at Smith's Ambulance, Edmonton
Source: Ed Kalynchuk photo, Smith's Ambulance