, the sanitarium averaged about 2,200 registered guests per annum before 1900. It was described on its letterhead as “an elegantly equipped Private Hospital, with a staff of trained nurses in attendance

organized courses for the Sœurs de la Charité de Québec, the owners of the asylum (which had become the Hôpital Saint-Michel-Archange), to prepare them to get their nursing diplomas. In 1923, when the

introduced the first Canadian bsc degree in nursing, advocated a broadly based engineering curriculum for geologists, and inaugurated the teaching of geography as a discipline

a dear old nurse,” he explained to a non-specialist audience in 1895, “and we love to rest on her lap and listen to her wonderful tales and enchanting music; but she is many-sided, and on one side is

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

sanitariums staffed by trained nurses in the southwestern part of the province. Despite his presentation of facts and figures showing the need for a new approach and the support of a multi-denominational

Nurses in 1897 and succeeded Lady Aberdeen [Marjoribanks*] as president, serving from 1899 until his death. An eminent public

Douglas*], made possible the purchase of the land on which the nurses’ residence and the recreational centre known as Douglas Hall were erected. In

BYRON, FRANCES DALRYMPLE (Redmond), nurse and hospital administrator; b. 1850 in Newry (Northern Ireland), daughter of John Byron

the school board,” recalled secretary W. P. Bate, “he nursed it through its adolescence, and started it on the high road to success.” He served as well with the parks commission and the industrial fair

were systematized and the number of deliveries students had to attend before graduation rose from six to twenty by 1911–12. Cameron also implemented a program for the training of student nurses at the

CAMPBELL, ELLA (Nellie), nurse and administrator; b. c. 1884, probably in St John’s, daughter

Tracey, who was nursing a sick child in her flat on nearby Pleasant Street, came to Canning’s for a little brandy to relieve the small one’s discomfort. As she was entering the tavern by the back door she

-Hyacinthe, Jean-Charles Prince*, suggested that she join a teaching or nursing community, but she did not feel that was where her calling lay

receive and tenderly care for destitute infants” and subsequently to arrange for their adoption. Later there also appears to have been a concern for the nursing unwed mother, who was to come in with her

American Spirit of innovation should not be nursed among the Loyal Refugees by the introduction of Acts of the Legislature, for purposes to which by the Common Law and the practice of the best regulated

a relief run against all odds. For 77 days they trudged through deep snow, surviving avalanches, extreme temperatures, and all manner of storms. Upon her arrival, Cashman nursed the scurvy

-Joseph Chaussegros de Léry left Louis-René and another son with a nurse and returned to Canada in 1764. At Governor Guy Carleton*’s suggestion he

CHESLEY, ANNIE AMELIA, nursing superintendent and instructor; b. 1857 or 1858 in or near Toronto, daughter of Edward James Chesley and

other were 13 men, including the Jesuit Father Jacques de La Place, and nurse Jeanne Mance, the contingent’s