THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING

Female casualty leaves Canada with questions

Combat death spurs debate on equality

By Bill Porter
Globe Staff / August 6, 2006

E-mail this article

Invalid E-mail address
Invalid E-mail address

Sending your article

Your article has been sent.

Text size +

When Captain Nichola Goddard was killed May 17 in a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan, she became the first female Canadian soldier to die while participating in battle. Besides her husband, parents, and two sisters, she left behind an ambivalent nation. (Full article: 1030 words)

This article is available in our archives:

Globe Subscribers

FREE for subscribers

Subscribers to the Boston Globe get unlimited access to our archives.

Not a subscriber?

Non-Subscribers

Purchase an electronic copy of the full article. Learn More

  • $4.95 1 article
  • $9.95 4 articles
  • $25.95 Monthly

Boston.com top stories on Twitter

    waiting for twitterWaiting for Twitter to feed in the latest...