The Victoria Cross was established by Queen Victoria in 1856 as a decoration for exceptional bravery in the presence of the enemy. It was the highest award for bravery a soldier could attain. The following is a list of those Canadian soldiers who won this award during World War I.
- Algie, Wallace Lloyd (1891-1918)
- Barker, William George (1894-1930)
- Barron, Colin Fraser (1893-1958)
- Bellew, Edward Donald (1882-1961)
- Brent, Philip Eric (1891-1917)
- Bishop, William Avery (1894-1956)
- Bourke, Rowland Richard Louis (1885-1958)
- Breton, Alexander Picton (1892-1976)
- Brillant, Jean (1890-1918)
- Brown, Harry (1898-1917)
- Cairns, Hugh (1896-1918)
- Campbell, Frederick William (1867-1915)
- Clark, Leo (1892-1916)
- Clark-Kennedy, William Hew (1880-1961)
- Combe, Robert Grierson (1880-1917)
- Coppins, Frederick George (1889-1963)
- Croak, John Bernard (1892-1918)
- De Wind, Edmund (1883-1918)
- Dinesen, Thomas (1892-1979)
- Fisher, Fred (1894-1915)
- Flowerdew, Gordon Muriel (1885-1918)
- Good, Herman James (1887-1969)
- Gregg, Milton Fowler (1892-1978)
- Hall, Frederick William (1885-1915)
- Hanna, Robert (1887-1967)
- Harvey, Frederick Maurice Watson (1888-1980)
- Hobson, Frederick (1875-1917)
- Holmes, Thomas William (1898-1950)
- Honey, Samuel Lewis (1894-1918)
- Hutcheson, Bellenden Seymour (1883-1954)
- Kaeble, Joseph (1893-1918)
- Kerr, George Fraser (1894-1929)
- Kerr, John Chipman (1887-1963)
- Kinross, Cecil John (1896-1957)
- Knight, Arthur George (1886-1918)
- Konowal, Filip (1887-1959)
- Learmonth, Okill Massey (1894-1917)
- Lyall, Graham Thomson (1892-1941)
- MacDowell, Thain Wendell (1890-1960)
- MacGregor, John (1888-1952)
- McKean, George Burdon (1888-1926)
- MacKenzie, Hugh (1885-1917)
- McLeod, Alan Arnett (1899-1918)
- Merrifield, William (1890-1943)
- Metcalf, William Henry (1885-1968)
- Milne, William Johnstone (1892-1917)
- Miner, Harry Garnet Bedford (1891-1918)
- Mitchell, Coulson Norman (1889-1978)
- Mullin, George (1892-1963)
- Nunney, Claude (1892-1918)
- O’Kelly, Christopher Patrick John (1895-1922)
- O’Leary, Michael (1889-1961)
- O’Rourke, Michael James (1878-1957)
- Pattison, John George (1875-1917)
- Pearkes, George Randolph (1888-1984)
- Peck, Cyrus Wesley (1871-1956)
- Rayfield, Walter Leigh (1881-1949)
- Richardson, James Cleland (1895-1916)
- Ricketts, Thomas (1901-1967)
- Robertson, James Peter (1883-1917)
- Rutherford, Charles Smith (1892-1989)
- Scrimger, Francis Alexander Caron (1881-1937)
- Shankland, Robert (1887-1968)
- Sifton, Ellis Wellwood (1891-1917)
- Spall, Robert (1890-1918)
- Strachan, Harcus (1889-1982)
- Tait, James Edward (1886-1918)
- Train, Charles William (1890-1965)
- Young, John Francis (1893-1929)
- Zengel, Raphael Louis (1894-1977)
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