, and the mounted police hospital. From time to time members of the Victorian Order of Nurses from nearby Fort Selkirk were called in to assist them

a fragile tale of constant love which takes its Nova Scotia hero and heroine respectively to the West Indies and a Boston nursing career before they meet again years later on an American river-boat

. In 1908 she opened China’s first Government Medical School for Women in Tientsin, to teach Chinese women to become doctors and nurses. In 1915 a new Isabella Fisher Hospital was launched by the WFMS

, which passed narrowly in a city referendum in May, did nothing to diminish Kaufman’s civic devotion: in 1917 he funded the construction of a nurses’ home near the general hospital

, for example, her efforts in nursing a British soldier to recovery brought his enthusiastic gratitude. Another time she bravely went to the rescue of some travellers in peril on ice-floes in the St

philanthropy, nursing, poetry, travel, science, prose (Edinburgh and London, 1906). C. P. A. Ballstadt, “The literary history of the Strickland family

WMS to return to the mission field. That year the society sent her and nurse Retta Edmunds (Edmonds) to Pakan (Alta). The recent settlement of large numbers of Ukrainians in this area had raised

one at St Vital. A born nurse, Sister Sainte-Thérèse had remained active in the health field. In 1871 she set up a temporary hospital on

almost dead from starvation McKay cared for him, and Pritchard wrote later, “My friend McKay of the Hudson’s Bay Company . . . became both my surgeon and nurse.” The following winter McKay

Bompas*, before moving permanently to Seattle, Wash. Kate lived out her life in relative obscurity, sewing items for tourists and nursing Jim through his final sickness. She succumbed to an influenza

organized classes for native, mixed-blood, and white settler children, home nursing, and care of the bishop’s residence and cathedral. In writing to her superior she stressed the need for English-speaking

visit the island daily, but he would not stay there. Without proper care Vondy’s condition worsened. His sister persuaded some friends to take her to the island, where she nursed her brother until he died

Taché* of St Boniface. Among the many groups were hospital nurses and college students, tobogganists and hockey players, and societies of all types. She also photographed landscapes of the

, and their Negro nurse, and took the family prisoners. In the harsh trek northward to Montreal 18 prisoners, including Mrs Williams, were killed. Williams, his sons, and daughters were

final year. Yet even at the Montreal General Hospital, where she went for clinical work, she was not welcomed by the superintendent of nursing, Gertrude Elizabeth (Nora

few months after the method had been perfected by Théodore Tuffier in Paris. Specialized care required more continuous medical supervision and a more highly qualified nursing staff. At Ahern’s request

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

eldest daughter died in childbirth, a loss that no doubt propelled her into greater efforts to raise the revenue necessary to build a maternity hospital and nursing home connected to the CGH. Jean

-entérologie. Dubé also believed strongly in promoting the nursing profession. Thus, in 1925, while representing the committee of the faculty of medicine on

could say the same of the “Holy Family à la Huronne” (Ursuline convent in Quebec), of a “Nun Hospitaller nursing Christ in the figure of a Patient” and two “Ecce Homo” (Hôtel-Dieu in Quebec). These works