Fane*, a veteran military nurse. The important changes in Canada’s relations with Britain that gradually came on with Borden and the war, Pope

professors on the faculty, his lectures and theoretical courses being valued as much by students and nurses as by his colleagues. According to Antonio Barbeau, who had studied under him, he was an articulate

[Marjoribanks*] established the Victorian Order of Nurses in 1897, the Robertsons became involved. James would serve as a governor of the order from 1902 to 1927

Bergin*. He mobilized doctors, nurses, aides, and supplies for the campaign and followed the battles, attending to the wounded. He stayed in the northwest until late August, seeing to the evacuation of

MADELINE, nurse and educator; b. 15 Jan. 1864 in Perth, Upper Canada, daughter of Henry Dowsley Shaw and Flora Madeline Matheson; d. unmarried 27 Aug. 1927 in Liverpool

jobs for favoured doctors. Yet the same year he pressed the city’s Board of Health to hire, for the first time, a public health nurse to specialize in tuberculin testing and care. In March 1910

SHIRREFF, JENNIE GRAHL HUNTER (baptized Jane Campbell Hunter) (Eddy), nurse, businesswoman, and

established in 1919 to allow mothers to tour the exhibits while their infants were watched by trained nurses. Cummings was also on the executives of the Women’s Canadian Historical Society of Toronto

’ Mission Board in 1890-92, a board member of the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada, and honorary treasurer of the medical department of the Church Missionary Society. More significantly, he was a charter

report (Charlottetown), 1897, 1901–21 (mfm. at PARO, Acc. 3295M-4). A history of the Prince Edward Island Hospital School of Nursing, 1891–1971, [ed. C. J. Callbeck] (Charlottetown, 1974

his career in the period’s burgeoning public health movement. He immediately took charge of 18 inspectors, 25 nurses, and a dental inspector [see John Gennings Curtis

-Mathilde, and known also as Mathilda), teacher, Sister of Charity at the Hôpital Général of Montreal, nurse, and school administrator; b

Nursing Society, the ladies’ auxiliary to the Young Men’s Christian Association, and the Women’s Canadian Club, of which she was president from 1912 to 1921. The two organizations in which she was most

nurses’ institute building. She was also treasurer for funds raised to provide Ottawa soldiers with comforts during the South African War. A staunch member of St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, she was

final year. Yet even at the Montreal General Hospital, where she went for clinical work, she was not welcomed by the superintendent of nursing, Gertrude Elizabeth (Nora

daughters; m. secondly 5 Sept. 1917 Jessie Reid, a nurse, in Paddington (London); d. 25 May 1933 in Montreal. In 1873 George Eli

Special Hospital in Lenham, he married nurse Eugenie Ledoux, a native of Quebec who had been raised in Manitoba and had worked with him at the Manitoba Sanatorium. Baragar was demobilized at the rank of

by the growing professionalism of the services offered (from 1924 the Provincial Bureau of Health required that nurses be hired in exchange for funding). Financial difficulties, as well as a sometimes

Virtue, a Salvation Army nurse who was appointed to the force in 1918. Egan easily made the transition from social work to police work. As an SPC agent she had, she believed, exercised provincewide the

war in 1914. All six of his sons enlisted, and two of his daughters served as nurses. His boys won numerous citations for bravery and were often injured; one