Canadian Peacekeeping Veterans Association

The CPVA, founded in 1991, is a national, all Veteran, all volunteer, not-for-profit, apolitical organization  
with Chapters from British Columbia to Newfoundland. It has its Headquarters in Miramichi, 
 New Brunswick, and is not funded by the Government in any way.

Our Mission Statement is: 
“To be a strong and leading advocate for all Veterans and to provide a forum of comradeship for Veterans”.

The CPVA is a longstanding Veterans’ organization, national in scope, which welcomes Veterans of all generations, 
of all conflicts, men and women, regular or reserve, military or police, serving or retired, who participated in peace support, 
peacekeeping, anti-terrorist, or war operations, national and international, overseas or on the home front.

Learn more about the CPVA...

News and Events

PK75: A Peacekeeping Anthology

The year 2023 will mark two peacekeeping milestones, the 75th anniversary of the first United Nations peacekeeping operation, and the 35th anniversary of the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to UN Peacekeepers. CPVA will recognize both by developing an anthology of the personal experiences of representative Canadian peacekeepers. It will focus on Canada's historic contributions to peacekeeping through the eyes of individual Canadian peacekeepers and those who have significantly impacted and enabled their efforts. This anthology is a work in progress, with selections to be published in issues of The Blue Beret, and all instalments posted here as they become available. You are welcome to browse through the anthology and may share links to any of the stories.


We welcome additional contributions from other peacekeeping veterans. More information provided in the anthology pages.

What's in a Name?


The matter of who can be a full member of CPVA
came up during the 2020 Annual General Meeting,
and a decision was made to defer the topic for a more meaningful conversation throughout the year
and return to it in 2021.


Read more and comment here...

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