Canada
In February 2022, we thanked Canada for their service and sacrifice
UN Peacekeeping Service and Sacrifice: Thank You Canada Canada was among the first countries to contribute to UN Peacekeeping when it participated in the first peacekeeping operation, the UN Truce Supervision Organization in the Middle East (UNTSO) in 1954. Since then, Canada has provided more than 125,000 military and police personnel to dozens of UN peace operations around the world. We are following two Canadian peacekeepers deployed in the UN Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO).
See the Gallery: Canada: A nation committed to UN peacekeeping from its early days
In numbers: Canadian peacekeepers deployed to six missions
Today, Canada provides 59 uniformed personnel, including 18 women, to six UN peace operations making it the 69th largest contributor. Its largest contribution of personnel is to the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), where 23 of its women and men now serve. Canada also contributes to the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA); the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS); UN Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO); the UN Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH); and the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP).