daughter to nurse, the acting governor left Quebec on 18 Sept. 1657 bound for France, where he entered orders. His appointment on 24 Feb. 1657 as first prefect of the congregation that

of the Témiscamingue post. In 1747 he was given a final 1,500 livres. His sister-in-law, Mme Mercier, had been Louis XV’s nurse. Her influence probably helped procure these special

. Like Nicolas, he may have counted on using the influence at the French court of a sister-in-law, Mme Mercier, who had been a nurse to Louis XV, to obtain an advantageous colonial position. In 1719

[Smithers], and the ladies’ committee of the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada. As well, she was a patroness of the Hôpital Sainte-Justine for children and the Royal Edward Institute

L’Heureux found him close to death in 1865 and nursed him back to health. Later that year he was caught in the ongoing war between Blackfoot and Cree. He was camped

child care to both religious and lay staff. In 1901 he published Femme et nurse, ou ce que la femme doit apprendre en hygiène et en médecine. . . . In its introduction he affirmed

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

 la Charité cherished was that of nurse. She risked her life during the Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918, when, with only one assistant, she took care of the residents and all those in the convent who

genealogy since his retirement from public life, wrote to Margry: “Thus, she and I have a common ancestor.” The new Lady La Fontaine nursed her husband during his last years: he spoke of her as his

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

student in Chicago he had proposed to a nurse – but his caution, his obligations to his family, and his reluctance to accept any fetters on his ambition probably account for his avoidance of the

young,” was on good terms with Waring, and his mother also was well treated because of her skills as a nurse and seamstress. King was trained as a house servant but at the age of 16, still under

three of his children had graduated. Elizabeth Margaret Ritchie, after service overseas as a nurse in 1918–19, taught at Branksome Hall girls’ school in Toronto; Dorothy Hamilton, following several years

1895 and 1896, and of the Board of Trade in 1899 and 1900. He continued to nurture friendships with top bankers and was doing important work for the Victorian Order of Nurses. As well, his wealth and

other children while she performed nursing chores for the invaders (one of whom later returned to marry her). Keefer rose to the rank of captain early in 1814; his company was active on the Niagara

, 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

JOHNSTONE, ISABEL (at birth she was named Isabella Johnston), nurse and hospital superintendent; b. 15 Dec

Rockhead Military Hospital in Halifax. In 1918 he was instrumental in having a veterans’ hospital established in Charlottetown; it was named in honour of nursing sister Rena Maude

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

related to Mary Queen of Scots. She is described as the “daughter of a Scottish nobleman who had sought refuge in France with his whole family to keep his religion.” She was sent by the nursing order of