I never knew this.

It is the mark of the maturity and confidence of a culture that it can name its highest nursing award to its nurses after the English woman who pioneered the field of nursing at the time of the wretched insane war in the Crimea:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-07/22/c_136463255.htm

I do not know of an equivalent nursing award in Canada.