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

, and being skilled in the use of roots and herbs and in nursing she was soon acting as nurse, doctor, and midwife. At the request of those relying on her services, in 1770 she took the unusual step of

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

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

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

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

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

a washerwoman, a traditionally female role in which she did not excel. She may also have acted as nurse to the pupils of the school established by the company at Albany that year. Her son was baptized

on to become a prominent rabbi in the United States. Another daughter, Malca, a graduate in nursing from Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, took charge about 1922 of the medical operations of the

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

hazardous winter trip to Canada. Littlefield wrote Governor Joseph Dudley of Massachusetts that the “Norridgewock Indian” had nursed him back to health, and had “been like a father.” The following summer

daughters; m. secondly 5 Sept. 1917 Jessie Reid, a nurse, in Paddington (London); d. 25 May 1933 in Montreal. In 1873 George Eli

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

, Charlotte, a nurse, also joined them in Winnipeg. During the 1880s and 1890s Yeomans was active in social and political reform. A devout Anglican, she

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

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

nursing infants and to early childhood (from birth to the age of 6 to 7 years). Although he was concerned with the general state of the child’s health, he went into detail about various ailments

[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

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

its board of trustees from 1912 until his death. He was also a member for 25 years of the advisory board of the Margaret Scott Nursing Mission. His proudest achievement, however, was the