related to Mary Queen of Scots. She is described as the “daughter of a Scottish nobleman who had sought refuge in France with his whole family to keep his religion.” She was sent by the nursing order of

, RENA MAUDE, nurse; b. 14 June 1879 in Souris, P.E.I., daughter of John McLean and Matilda Jane Jury; d. unmarried 27 June 1918 at sea

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

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

, and wanted to become a nursing nun. Her parents were resolutely opposed to this. Nevertheless they finally allowed her to enter the convent of the Visitation in her native city, but this trial was

charter member of the Victorian Order of Nurses in Saint John when the branch was formed in 1899. She became its first vice-president and held the office until her death, helping guide the organization with

Coome and Amelia Elizabeth (Aimée) Hare entered the noviciate of the Sisters of St Mary in Peekskill, N.Y. Anxious to gain experience in nursing and social work, Hannah spent some time at their

WYLLIE, ELIZABETH JENNET (McMaster), philanthropist, hospital administrator, and nurse; b. 27 Dec. 1847 in Toronto, second

; Lejeune, dit Briard; Ross), midwife and nurse; baptized 13 Aug. 1762 in Rochefort, France, daughter of Joseph Lejeune and Martine Roy (LeRoy); m

and visiting. Mary had a particular interest in the training of young women and hoped to organize a school for nurses. It never materialized, but in

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

McINTYRE, AGNES BUCHANAN (Whiddon), nurse, shelter superintendent, and police matron; b. 22

medical students in clinical theatres rather than in the wards. Following trends elsewhere on the continent, he strengthened the central role of the hospital in the education of nurses and medical students

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

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

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

mandate, the board hired public health nurses, the first in Canada. Speaking to the board’s report during the session of 1918, Armstrong was able to point to favourable results after only one full year of

to typhus contracted while nursing. Mother Mary Francis was again left alone. Resisting all importunities from the motherhouse in Dublin to

.” Thomson was involved in many of Saint John’s most important philanthropic organizations, as a director of the Victorian Order of Nurses, a board member of the Home for Aged Females, a member of the ladies

obtained admission to the faculty of medicine at the University of Toronto. Dr Greenaway also lectured to the nurses at the Toronto Orthopedic Hospital and, from 1903 to 1904, was on staff at the