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Born in Canada

60 Medal of Honor recipients were born in Canada.

By conflict

U.S. Civil War34

Indian Campaigns9

Interim 1871 - 18997

Spanish-American War6

Mexican Campaign (Vera Cruz)1

Recipients

JA James Anderson Jr. Private · Army Indian Campaigns · 1870 CA Charles Asten Quarter Gunner · Navy Civil War · 1864 FB Frank Bois Quartermaster · Navy Civil War · 1863 JB John Brown First Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1863 JB John Harties Brown Captain · Army Civil War · 1864 DB Denis Buckley Private · Army Civil War · 1864 ✦ DC Daniel J. Campbell Private · Marine Corps Spanish-American War · 1898

Ovila Cayer Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1864 LC Louis G. Chaput Landsman · Navy Civil War · 1864 RC Robert John Coffey Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1863 TC Thomas C. Cooney Chief Machinist · Navy Spanish-American War · 1898 RD Robert Fulton Dodd Private · Army Civil War · 1864 ED Edward Edwin Dodds Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1864 JE John Everetts Gunner's Mate Third Class · Navy Interim 1871–1899 · 1898 TF Thomas Fitzpatrick Coxswain · Navy Civil War · 1864 JF James Flannigan Private · Army Civil War · 1863

William Garvin Captain of the Forecastle · Navy Civil War · 1864 TG Thomas H. Gay Private · Army Indian Campaigns · 1868

John Curtis Gilmore Major · Army Civil War · 1863 JG John Grady Lieutenant · Navy Veracruz 1914 · 1914 AH Asel Hagerty Private · Army Civil War · 1865 MH Mosher A. Harding Blacksmith · Army Indian Campaigns · 1869 JH John Hayes Coxswain · Navy Civil War · 1864

Thomas J. Higgins Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1863 GH George L. Houghton Private · Army Civil War · 1863 TK Thomas Joseph Kersey Ordinary Seaman · Navy Interim 1871–1899 · 1876 JK John Kilmartin Private · Army Indian Campaigns · 1871

Peter Charles Lemon Specialist Fourth Class · Army Vietnam War · 1970 GL George Low Seaman · Navy Interim 1871–1899 · 1881

Charles Andrew MacGillivary Sergeant · Army World War II · 1945 EM Edward Maddin Ordinary Seaman · Navy Interim 1871–1899 · 1876 HM Herbert Mahers Private · Army Indian Campaigns · 1869

Michael McCarthy First Sergeant · Army Indian Campaigns · 1877 JM James McIntosh Captain of the Top · Navy Civil War · 1864

Martin Thomas McMahon Captain & Aide-de-Camp · Army Civil War · 1862 JM John P. McVeane Corporal · Army Civil War · 1863 ✦

Harry Herbert Miller Seaman · Navy Spanish-American War · 1898

Willard D. Miller Seaman · Navy Spanish-American War · 1898 PM Philip Moore Seaman · Navy Interim 1871–1899 · 1880

George Horace Morgan Second Lieutenant · Army Indian Campaigns · 1882

Douglas Albert Munro Signalman First Class · Coast Guard World War II · 1942 ✦ JM James T. Murphy Private · Army Civil War · 1865 JN John Neil Quarter Gunner · Navy Civil War · 1864

Joseph B. Noil Seaman · Navy Interim 1871–1899 · 1872

Albert O'Connor Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1865 SO Stephen O'Neill Corporal · Army Civil War · 1863

Joachim Pease Seaman · Navy Civil War · 1864 WP William Pelham Landsman · Navy Civil War · 1864

George Frederick Phillips Machinist First Class · Navy Spanish-American War · 1898

Alonzo H. Pickle Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1864 WP Wesley James Powers Corporal · Army Civil War · 1865

Carlos H. Rich First Sergeant · Army Civil War · 1864 JR Joseph Robinson First Sergeant · Army Indian Campaigns · 1876 HR Henry Peter Russell Landsman · Navy Spanish-American War · 1898

Alexander Scott Corporal · Army Civil War · 1864 JS John Shivers Private · Marine Corps Civil War · 1865 JS James Stoddard Seaman · Navy Civil War · 1864 HW Henry Williams Carpenter's Mate · Navy Interim 1871–1899 · 1879 GW George G. Wortman Sergeant · Army Indian Campaigns · 1868 BY Benjamin F. Young Corporal · Army Civil War · 1864