premises clean, do the shopping, and give alms to the poor. In addition, he acted as barber and as nurse to sick students, handled the mail, and transported parcels for the students, whom he sometimes

again. In the course of that fall, he organized a study group known as the Montreal Group for the Security of the People’s Health, which brought together doctors, nurses, and social workers. Under

some occasional game meat and “watery potatoes.” In 1869 she was unable to nurse her son Egerton Ryerson, called Eddie, the eldest child and the first of three born in the mission field, and believed

report of its kind in Canada. Black’s closest friends were intelligent professional women – teachers, social workers, and nurses, including Ethel

BOUCHER, MARGARET RUTTAN (Scott), stenographer, administrator of home-nursing services, and social reformer; b. 28 July 1855 or 1856

organized courses for the Sœurs de la Charité de Québec, the owners of the asylum (which had become the Hôpital Saint-Michel-Archange), to prepare them to get their nursing diplomas. In 1923, when the

introduced the first Canadian bsc degree in nursing, advocated a broadly based engineering curriculum for geologists, and inaugurated the teaching of geography as a discipline

first aid and home nursing to a number of young people who were among the first to go abroad. She was a founder and regent of the Sir William Osler chapter of the Imperial Order Daughters of the

sanitariums staffed by trained nurses in the southwestern part of the province. Despite his presentation of facts and figures showing the need for a new approach and the support of a multi-denominational

BYRON, FRANCES DALRYMPLE (Redmond), nurse and hospital administrator; b. 1850 in Newry (Northern Ireland), daughter of John Byron

], he was instrumental in saving the university’s School for Graduate Nurses from closure in the early 1930s [see Bertha

himself. In his last years he often needed private nursing care as he struggled to regain his health. In 1931 Curry died of a heart attack. In his will

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

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

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

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

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

transformation of the small CAMC, which had only 20 officers, 102 personnel belonging to other ranks, and 5 nursing sisters, into a unit more than 100 times larger. At age 54 Fotheringham

Association. A member of the managing committee of the Victorian Order of Nurses, a governor of the Montreal General Hospital, and a director of the Montreal Citizens’ Association, he was chairman of the

Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada. Her role in the NCWC was largely nominal, but she took an active interest in the work of the VON. Impressed by the need for better public-health facilities, she created a