, nurses and practitioners of medicine (London, 1904), 175–76, 369. G. W. Spragge, “The Trinity Medical School,” Ont. Hist., LVIII (1966), 63–98.

member of the women’s auxiliary of the Hamilton branch of the Victorian Order of Nurses, and a member of the auxiliary board of the Hamilton Health Association. At Central Presbyterian Church she served as

Armstrong] that introduced public nursing to Manitoba. Initially, five public health nurses were employed; by 1922 there were 53. During the influenza epidemic that followed World War I

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

Canadian Scottish), which went to England the next month. Before the conflict would end, all of Henry Bell-Irving’s six sons were in the armed forces and two of his four daughters served as nurses

Bellingham. He kept abreast of Quebec and Canadian politics and, about 1895, dictated his memoirs to a nurse. Two years later he congratulated Félix-Gabriel

service out of chaos. As he wrote in his report of 13 May 1886, “There was no fixed Departmental Medical Staff, no Field Hospital or Ambulance Service, no organized Corps of Nurses, no fixed method of

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

the Liberal party, sought to persuade a reluctant and not broadly supported Wilfrid Laurier that he should take the leadership, Margaret spoke as she nursed her husband: “Yes, Mr. Laurier, you are

much wider range of services was offered than in France. There were, for instance, five hospitals administered by the Canadian Red Cross, a convalescent home for officers, and a rest home for nurses in

himself 76, George set about giving his brother “poor rough, ignorant nursing.” The end came “very quietly” at about 8:30 p.m. on 16 March

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

Children’s Aid Society, and St James’ Cathedral, and she was a governor of the Ottawa-based Victorian Order of Nurses. As her children grew up

house of Providence that Bishop Saint-Vallier was to open his Hôpital Général in 1689, appointing two sisters of the Congrégation as nurses to take care of the aged

 Aberdeen was associated, such as the National Council of Women of Canada and the Victorian Order of Nurses. His friendship with the Aberdeens continued until his death

grounds of ill health. Bouteroue arrived at Quebec in September, accompanied by his daughter. He was described by a nursing sister at the Hôtel-Dieu, Quebec, as being a tall, handsome man, very

. Boyd died on 8 June 1914 of an anaemic condition in a nursing home in Philadelphia, where he had gone for treatment. Mossom Boyd Sr had carved his niche in the forests of the Trent watershed