On an eight-month tour of duty on ethnically divided Cyprus in 1986, the fury of Greek Cypriot protesters demonstrating against the first-ever visit by a Turkish head of government to the island’s breakaway Turkish Cypriot north was seared in her memory.

From the start of the UN mission in 1964 until they withdrew in 1993, Canadian peacekeepers patrolled the demilitarized zone that separated Greek Cypriot fighters in the south from the Turkish Cypriot