nursed Gray’s invalid wife and who was to receive £2,000, two shares in the Dorchester Bridge, Grandpré (now known as Montplaisir), and a farm in the parish of Beauport. The bequest was made on condition

. 1873 in Agincourt (Toronto), son of James Hamilton and Isabella Glendenning; m. 26 Nov. 1906 Lillian May Forrester (d. 18 Sept. 1956), a nurse, in Winnipeg, and they had one daughter

of Charity of the Hôpital Général de Montréal provided nursing care and looked after the internal organization and management. As secretary, Lachapelle was responsible for organizing the hospital in

[Marjoribanks*] established the Victorian Order of Nurses in 1897, the Robertsons became involved. James would serve as a governor of the order from 1902 to 1927

turn when he accepted appointment as surgeon-in-chief at Provident Hospital in Chicago. Established in 1892, it was the first training hospital for black nurses in the United States. In 1896 he became

a Mississippi River steamer. Seriously injured when cord wood fell on him, he was nursed by a Boston traveller’s maid, Ellen Toyer, whom he later married. He then moved to Mobile, Alabama, where he

and their wives, and on Wednesdays she received visitors. She had brought a cook from Halifax, but by the session of 1892 the cook was gone, and, short of money, nursing an invalid daughter (Frances

business to James Thomson and William Minchin. Anderson rented an office and began to “nurse” his capital. He had already invested extensively in the

by the growing professionalism of the services offered (from 1924 the Provincial Bureau of Health required that nurses be hired in exchange for funding). Financial difficulties, as well as a sometimes

Children’s Aid Society, and St James’ Cathedral, and she was a governor of the Ottawa-based Victorian Order of Nurses. As her children grew up

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

, this document can nevertheless be read as a contemporary testimony to his career. Overall, the report is congratulatory, mentioning in particular the two-year training courses for psychiatric nurses set