nursing infants and to early childhood (from birth to the age of 6 to 7 years). Although he was concerned with the general state of the child’s health, he went into detail about various ailments

transformation of the small CAMC, which had only 20 officers, 102 personnel belonging to other ranks, and 5 nursing sisters, into a unit more than 100 times larger. At age 54 Fotheringham

was deeply mortified at his inability to provide for his family as an artist. He decided to immigrate to Upper Canada, and in June 1843, with his wife, three children, a nurse, and a brother

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

requiring physicians and nurses to report cases of the disease. For many years Fraser promoted the establishment of special workshops for the blind, arguing that the difficulty blind industrial workers had in

for the boards of other charities and businesses. He chaired the Toronto branch of the Victorian Order of Nurses, and was a director of the Imperial Bank of Canada, the Traders’ Bank of Canada, the

Fabre of Montreal, insisted that the community cease to take on nursing duties and that a clear distinction be made between the sisters charged with teaching and those assigned to domestic

going to St John’s, he went to Paris to participate in the treaty talks, acting in an advisory capacity to the British ambassador. This visit enabled him to nurse his health further and when the

Association. A member of the managing committee of the Victorian Order of Nurses, a governor of the Montreal General Hospital, and a director of the Montreal Citizens’ Association, he was chairman of the

, 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

preaching and pastoral work at St Andrew’s, he was active in efforts to found a nurses’ training school at the Protestant hospital in Ottawa. He served on committees of the Church of Scotland synod and

charter member of the Victorian Order of Nurses in Saint John when the branch was formed in 1899. She became its first vice-president and held the office until her death, helping guide the organization with

rate of infant mortality in Newfoundland,” Gosling had initiated efforts to promote a child welfare service, and in 1918 he helped to fund the salary of a community health nurse from his emoluments as

with Thomas Clark, nursing his mosquito bites and absorbing the Niagara viewpoint of provincial affairs. He was downcast to find that Clark could lend him no money because his capital was tied up in land

pressing his claim to office with sufficient force, and this conviction was strengthened by Macdonald’s neglect of him when the Conservatives were returned to office in 1854. Gowan seems to have nursed his

Britain, he was able to secure a passage home the following February. He spent the rest of the war in Toronto, at first being nursed back to health by his mother and then working for the Canadian

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

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

distribution of literature and of the Women’s Welcome Hostel in Toronto, and was honorary president of the Ottawa Maternity Hospital, the Victorian Order of Nurses, the Lady Grey sanatoriums of Toronto and

Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada. Her role in the NCWC was largely nominal, but she took an active interest in the work of the VON. Impressed by the need for better public-health facilities, she created a