FORBES, SARAH, nurse; b. 7 April 1860 in Liverpool, N.S., daughter of James Fraser Forbes, a physician and

Compain* inherited when he left. Finally, his well-informed opinion was sought when nurses had to be chosen for foundlings, and he was called on to adjudicate disputed bills of certain of his colleagues

inaugurated. Other celebrations included the opening of a nurses’ residence at St Joseph’s Hospital and the reopening of St Mary’s Church, which had undergone extensive interior improvements. Also

the medical studies that preceded Fairweather’s return. Beginning in the autumn of 1880, she spent two years in nurses’ training at Charity Hospital

president of the Victorian Order of Nurses, the National Council of Women of Canada, and, for a time, the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire. (In 1902 she withdrew her support of this body owing to a

, Dorothy had become on her return the first nurse and a guiding light at the Jewish Dispensary, set up on Elizabeth Street by the Hebrew Ladies’ Maternity Aid and Child Welfare Society. On Henry’s death she

thrown from his horse, and then nursed him back to health with soft words and alcohol. And he delighted in dressing the part of the uncouth backwoodsman, and then surprising onlookers with a learned

-entérologie. Dubé also believed strongly in promoting the nursing profession. Thus, in 1925, while representing the committee of the faculty of medicine on

infant. In 1852 his mother, whose memory Dryden revered, had nursed him and his siblings through an attack of typhoid fever before succumbing to the disease. His father then married a Methodist, Mary

eldest daughter died in childbirth, a loss that no doubt propelled her into greater efforts to raise the revenue necessary to build a maternity hospital and nursing home connected to the CGH. Jean

Wellington County, a nurse named Margaret I. McIntosh. Because Dow was “never articulate in public” (so Margaret Brown recalled), in discussions of her work she would whisper responses to Margaret, who

September 1866, while nursing a woman ill from typhoid fever, he caught the disease and died from it on 2 October. He had just made up his mind to enter the Order of Preachers

, Doreil visited the hospital twice a day to make sure all was in order. He praised the unstinting and expert care given his soldiers by the religious nursing orders, procuring for those at Quebec and at

.” Thomson was involved in many of Saint John’s most important philanthropic organizations, as a director of the Victorian Order of Nurses, a board member of the Home for Aged Females, a member of the ladies

those in the Canadian military service, including female nurses and soldiers under 21 [see The right to vote

, this document can nevertheless be read as a contemporary testimony to his career. Overall, the report is congratulatory, mentioning in particular the two-year training courses for psychiatric nurses set

Hamilton had done in 1856. The congregation gained respect for proficiency in teaching, nursing, and counselling, and for the sisters’ dedication and

democratic leaders, who sought direction and self-confidence by face-to-face and intuitive connection with his voters rather than by polls, focus groups, and opinion management. He nursed resentments and in

, Dickson “was to befriend virtually every blinded Canadian soldier.” Dickson’s other major interest was first aid. He was a friend of American nurse

Victoria and she nursed him through his declining years. Money continued to be a source of worry, and after the Conservatives returned to power in Ottawa under Robert Laird