Victoria, in 1895. Because of her husband’s ill health, the family journeyed to Arizona and then to Owen Sound, where they hoped he might be nursed back to health but where he died of pulmonary tuberculosis

SCOVIL, ELISABETH ROBINSON (although she often appeared in print as Elizabeth, she signed Elisabeth), teacher, nurse

in Montreal, son of John Scrimger and Charlotte Catherine Gairdner; m. 5 Sept. 1918 Ellen Eason Carpenter (Emmerson), a nurse, in London, England, and they had three daughters and one son; d

untrained volunteer nurses while wasting of millions of dollars. He described his commander in England, Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Ernest William

on the first of these boards in 1900–1. In the late 1890s she and her husband had begun to play important roles in the Montreal branch of the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada, she as chair of the

SNIVELY, MARY AGNES, educator, nurse, and nursing-school administrator; b. 12 Nov. 1847 in St Catharines, Upper Canada

had been nursing the seat. For Squires, the personal and party victories were emphatic. He was elected by a landslide; the Liberals won a 16-seat majority and 55 per cent of the popular vote. It

Maitland Stewart, would become one of North America’s pre-eminent nursing educators. His family was unable to finance his studies, so Stewart had to pay

 I, the university in 1915 raised the No.7 Canadian Stationary Hospital, largely composed of Dalhousie medical and dental teaching staff, together with senior students and nurses. Stewart, who had

there, travelling regularly to Cuba and resuming his work on a smaller scale. He married his nursing aide, Mathilde Savard, who accompanied him during his Florida stay

) (1896), and the Jubilee Nurses’ Home (1897), a handsome villa-like structure, the residence for the Montreal General Hospital’s nursing staff. Further afield was the Ross Memorial Hospital (1901–2) in

WILKINSON, CAROLINE HELENA (Armington) (named at birth Helena), artist and nurse; b. 12

several philanthropic organizations, to set in place the rudiments of a public-health program. He is credited with the establishment in 1919 of a public-health nursing program at UBC – the first of its

student in Chicago he had proposed to a nurse – but his caution, his obligations to his family, and his reluctance to accept any fetters on his ambition probably account for his avoidance of the

RAYSIDE, EDITH CATHERINE, nurse; b. 26 Jan. 1872 in Martintown, Ont., fifth of the eight children of James Rayside and

*]. They agreed on the need for travelling libraries, medical and dental clinics, public-health nurses, birth control, and eugenic legislation to limit the fertility of the mentally unfit. Nellie’s hopes for

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

Wrong*; he also met his wife. The daughter of a Winnipeg doctor and nurse, Maryon Moody enrolled in Pearson’s history tutorial for the fall term of

Britain, he was able to secure a passage home the following February. He spent the rest of the war in Toronto, at first being nursed back to health by his mother and then working for the Canadian