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Training Volunteers in Palliative Care
Provides Province-Wide Assistance

The Manitoba Commandery focuses its energies on funding for the training of volunteers in palliative care. Our support has been directed to Hospice and Palliative Care Manitoba, which provides a superior program for volunteers. This project is considered essential for the well being of many citizens across the province, rather than being centralized in Winnipeg.

Over the past decade the Manitoba Commandery has contributed approximately $100,000 to Hospice and Palliative Care Manitoba, most of which was raised from members of the Order and friends of the Order. The Commandery is proud of its record of achievement with a relatively small size of membership.

The Manitoba Commandery established, with the Ecumenical Commission, a funding program at St. Paul’s College, University of Manitoba. Income generated from the capital grant of $20,000 is used to assist students who are pursuing religious studies with an ecumenical focus.

The Manitoba Commandery and St. Paul’s College collaborate to ensure that funds are put to the best use each year to assist a student. In 2005, funds provided a student the means to attend and participate in an ecumenical conference held in Alberta. His report at the last Chapter General held in Winnipeg was received with great enthusiasm. The Commandery is proud to have played a role in this student’s education and future growth.

Of Note: At the ceremony to recognize official Commandery status in 1990, the Manitoba Commandery presented the Grand Priory with a gavel, striking plate and wooden box adorned with a Commander’s Cross. Various types of wood from around the world – France, Jerusalem, Canada and England – were used in the production of the set, to represent the history of the Order. This gavel is still is use today at Chapters General of the Grand Priory.

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