for nurses, the first in Canada. In 1895 he was named professor of mental diseases at nearby Queen’s College, which would confer an lld on him in 1906. In 1904 he became

which 13 employees lived in 1871 (including a housekeeper, a nurse, and a cook), expanded to 1,100 acres a few years later, making Cochrane the biggest landowner in the county. Thanks to its

view to his later ordination, and gave him permission to marry before leaving. His wife, Marion Goodwin, was well prepared for the mission field: she was a deaconess and a trained nurse who had served in

Sisters of Charity opened the first nursing home in the city, the Mater Misericordiae Home. Mother Vincent spent her last four years in a wheelchair, in

resigned as president of the Victorian Order of Nurses only in 1918, at the age of 80. He died two years later and was survived by his son, Reginald Mortimer, a noted civil engineer and militia

COWAN, AGNES, nurse and hospital administrator; b. 1839 in Moffat, Scotland, seventh and youngest child of John

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

Nurses, the dominion council of the British and Foreign Sailors’ Society, the Navy League of Canada, the masonic order, the St Andrew’s Society, the Canadian Club, the Empire Club of Canada, the

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

returned to England only once, to visit her family in 1887–88. It was a sad time, marred by the tragic deaths of a niece and a nephew, and the illness of a sister whom she nursed until the invalid’s death

science expert, public health nurse Margaret Craig, who came to Botwood and nearby communities to advise the health clubs. From his first entry into

], he was instrumental in saving the university’s School for Graduate Nurses from closure in the early 1930s [see Bertha

himself. In his last years he often needed private nursing care as he struggled to regain his health. In 1931 Curry died of a heart attack. In his will

them looked after according to the doctors’ instructions, maintain quiet and order in the wards, and assign tasks to the sisters responsible for nursing care

Winnipeg Daly took a keen interest in the work of the Children’s Hospital, the Margaret Scott Nursing Mission, the Young Men’s Christian Association, the Salvation Army, and St Luke’s Anglican Church

1837, and in 1841 the eldest daughter of Joshua Billings Nurse, member of the Barbados Legislative Council; she died in 1848. Between 1843 and 1847 Darling served as agent general for immigration in

Victorian Order of Nurses. Understandably, a good deal of her time also went into making social contributions to the career of her husband, who was knighted in 1914

regularly favoured tariffs to support infant “manufactures and agriculture.” The “colony was young,” he argued in the House of Commons in May 1872, and “required nursing.” Gilbert Malcolm

Sovereen, a Canadian heroine is befriended by an upright American, Thomas Jefferson Haskins. When the husband, broken and ruined, returns, he is tenderly nursed on his deathbed by Mrs Sovereen who resolves

Victoria and she nursed him through his declining years. Money continued to be a source of worry, and after the Conservatives returned to power in Ottawa under Robert Laird