. 1873 in Agincourt (Toronto), son of James Hamilton and Isabella Glendenning; m. 26 Nov. 1906 Lillian May Forrester (d. 18 Sept. 1956), a nurse, in Winnipeg, and they had one daughter

-president for the Alberta district of the NCWC from 1896 to 1898. In 1909 she became the first president of the Calgary branch of the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada, and that year she also helped to

HARMER, BERTHA (named at birth Albertina), nurse, educator, author, and university administrator; b. 22

rapidly increasing staff of sanitary inspectors, public-health nurses, and municipal housekeepers to take the preventive message into citizens’ homes. When ratepayers voted in 1917 to have the health

British nurse executed during World War I. The child’s death was incontrovertible proof of the evil of Nazism, observed the Reverend Charles Lynch Cowan, one of the clergymen presiding at the service

contribution of the former mayor (1917–20) to the founding of the Civic Hospital. Among the works by the artist, one that stands out is the Nursing sisters’ memorial (1926): mounted in the Hall of

[Smithers], and the ladies’ committee of the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada. As well, she was a patroness of the Hôpital Sainte-Justine for children and the Royal Edward Institute

 Bellefeuille and his colleague Omer Noël, as well as two nurses who had been trained in psychology, were hired to conduct a psychometric examination of certain pupils in the first three primary grades of the

, nurse, and educator; b. 9 Feb. 1865 in Saint-Jean (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu), Lower Canada, daughter of Magloire Mailloux, a blacksmith, and Rosalie Langlois; d. 27 Dec. 1937 in

trained nurses), of a nationwide public-health service, the Victorian Order of Nurses (VON) for Canada. Charlotte MacLeod, a Canadian-born nursing instructor then working in Massachusetts, was appointed

, ELIZA (Elizabeth) MARGARET, schoolteacher, physician, and nurse; b. 10 July 1879 in Flat River, P.E.I., daughter of Donald MacKenzie, a farmer and blacksmith, and Christina (Christy

being chief administrative officer, he served as bursar, taught classes, purchased food from local farmers, supervised the culinary staff, worked as an infirmary nurse, and launched a second local

school of nursing two years later. O’Leary was active in the war effort, asking his clergy to volunteer for the Canadian Chaplain Service [see John Macpherson

. Paddon’s life was transformed during this first summer when he met Mina Gilchrist, a nurse from New Brunswick. He had never allowed much time for romance, but by September 1912 he was ready to marry her

British, French, and Red Cross officials to allow her to volunteer as a nurse or for any other task on the Western Front. They refused, but she remained in England for much of the war, active with the Red

join his family on High Park Boulevard. His father died in 1921 and was buried in Toronto; his mother would pass away in a Belfast nursing home eight years later. Pentland also brought over from Ireland

for the troops, to organize convalescent homes, and to act as nurses for sick and wounded Canadian soldiers. Hughes and Perley had often clashed in

terminated the funding for his position. No new medical facilities were established in Coppermine until a nursing station was opened in 1947

RANGER, MARIE-ALPHONSINE-EULALIE, dite Maillet, Religious Hospitaller of St Joseph, nurse, pharmacist

general and specialized care and accept patients who could pay for their treatment as well as those who could not. The institution would also provide clinical teaching and include a nursing school