. In 1908 she opened China’s first Government Medical School for Women in Tientsin, to teach Chinese women to become doctors and nurses. In 1915 a new Isabella Fisher Hospital was launched by the WFMS

Rockhead Military Hospital in Halifax. In 1918 he was instrumental in having a veterans’ hospital established in Charlottetown; it was named in honour of nursing sister Rena Maude

JOHNSTONE, ISABEL (at birth she was named Isabella Johnston), nurse and hospital superintendent; b. 15 Dec

1895 and 1896, and of the Board of Trade in 1899 and 1900. He continued to nurture friendships with top bankers and was doing important work for the Victorian Order of Nurses. As well, his wealth and

three of his children had graduated. Elizabeth Margaret Ritchie, after service overseas as a nurse in 1918–19, taught at Branksome Hall girls’ school in Toronto; Dorothy Hamilton, following several years

, prominent in such institutions as the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire, the Victorian Order of Nurses, and the Young Women’s Christian Association

ELIZABETH (Nora), hospital and nursing school administrator; b. 17 May 1848

parents, licensing nursing homes for infants, and permitting adoption. During these years Longley suffered the death of his own favourite child, Frances

Association of Southern Alberta (1922), and first president of the Calgary branch of the Victorian Order of Nurses. In many ways Lougheed seemed far removed

Nurses. During her tenure, the council established a training home for nurses in the city and formed a chapter of the VON. She served as the chapter’s secretary from 1898 to 1901 and as president from 1902

London, Ont., and gave piano lessons before her marriage; the other became a nurse after a failed engagement and would care for her parents until their deaths

the end of his life. To provide adequate theoretical and practical training for the staff who worked in the operating room, he had helped found a school for nurses at Notre-Dame Hospital in 1897. His

Nurses, with Harriet as president of its board. In 1919, when the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire proposed to replace the crowded pavilion with a new war memorial hospital for children, the London

WMS to return to the mission field. That year the society sent her and nurse Retta Edmunds (Edmonds) to Pakan (Alta). The recent settlement of large numbers of Ukrainians in this area had raised

Pickthall. She helped nurse them during their final illnesses and facilitated production of their last books, as an executive of the trust fund that supported Johnson through the publication of her

again in Fort Macleod and then, in 1907, he settled in Edmonton. He seems to have had domestic problems with his wife – in 1921 he would marry a nurse from Beaumont, Alta

occupation of nursing. His wife was a poet whose strongly imperialist verse would be published in Poems and songs on the South African War . . . (Montreal, 1901), edited by John

establishment of the McGill School for Graduate Nurses. Along with her daughter, Eliza Ann served during the 1920s on the board of directors of the Victorian

a banquet. For once he was almost incoherent. Early in 1928 he stumbled on a streetcar and broke his ankle; when he seemed ready to walk, he relapsed. On 6 May 1929 his nurses found him dead

a motor trip through the island’s interior. Subsequently a major breakdown led to her confinement in a Victoria nursing home, where she was unable even to attend to business correspondence. After