, where his family nursed him back to full health. A return to farm work restored his vigour but he was given to “various personal eccentricities”: a continuing refusal to cut his hair or beard, a strong

first president of the Ottawa chapter of the National Council of Women of Canada and served as an original board member and a governor of the Victorian Order of Nurses. Lady Ritchie died on 7

children’s market, Lady Mary and her nurse; or, a peep into the Canadian forest (1856), the text evolving from the sketches Catharine wrote originally for a Canadian magazine

to be a favourite with the local practical nurses and lay midwives, “who delighted to tell of his velvety hands

, delivered by request at the St. John Mechanics’ Institute, on Feb. 4th, 1884 ([Saint John?, 1884?]); An address delivered at the opening of the training school for nurses

 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hamilton had done in 1856. The congregation gained respect for proficiency in teaching, nursing, and counselling, and for the sisters’ dedication and

infant. In 1852 his mother, whose memory Dryden revered, had nursed him and his siblings through an attack of typhoid fever before succumbing to the disease. His father then married a Methodist, Mary

FORBES, SARAH, nurse; b. 7 April 1860 in Liverpool, N.S., daughter of James Fraser Forbes, a physician and

obtained admission to the faculty of medicine at the University of Toronto. Dr Greenaway also lectured to the nurses at the Toronto Orthopedic Hospital and, from 1903 to 1904, was on staff at the

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

. When Lady Aberdeen established the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada, Hoodless assisted the initiative in Hamilton. Hoodless was concerned not

documents a tour he made in October 1834 of the Palatinate region, where he may have met Sybille Reuter. According to family lore he developed smallpox, and Billa, as he called her, nursed him back to

worse and she again retired to Huntsville, where Sara nursed her through her final illness. Not a renowned success as an artist or as a salvationist