’ Mission Board in 1890-92, a board member of the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada, and honorary treasurer of the medical department of the Church Missionary Society. More significantly, he was a charter

report (Charlottetown), 1897, 1901–21 (mfm. at PARO, Acc. 3295M-4). A history of the Prince Edward Island Hospital School of Nursing, 1891–1971, [ed. C. J. Callbeck] (Charlottetown, 1974

Nursing Society, the ladies’ auxiliary to the Young Men’s Christian Association, and the Women’s Canadian Club, of which she was president from 1912 to 1921. The two organizations in which she was most

monthly magazine, she stressed the importance of avoiding alcohol as medication for sick children and advising nursing mothers against drinking. For Vail, word of mouth and door-to-door campaigns were the

studies in Paris. In 1815 he was invited to accompany a group of wounded Germans to Brandenburg as a nurse, and he amused them so well that some Berlin doctors advised him to make a career in ventriloquism

1759 and 1760, when they had acted as nurses for the British troops and Esther had been assistant superior, the Ursulines elected her superior on 15 Dec. 1760. The serene strength which made her

years nursing his health in Madeira, Italy, the Riviera, Algiers, and Malta, while occasionally contributing to the Gentleman’s Magazine and the Church Review. He returned to England in

service out of chaos. As he wrote in his report of 13 May 1886, “There was no fixed Departmental Medical Staff, no Field Hospital or Ambulance Service, no organized Corps of Nurses, no fixed method of

for nurses, the first in Canada. In 1895 he was named professor of mental diseases at nearby Queen’s College, which would confer an lld on him in 1906. In 1904 he became

member of the women’s auxiliary of the Hamilton branch of the Victorian Order of Nurses, and a member of the auxiliary board of the Hamilton Health Association. At Central Presbyterian Church she served as

much wider range of services was offered than in France. There were, for instance, five hospitals administered by the Canadian Red Cross, a convalescent home for officers, and a rest home for nurses in

. Boyd died on 8 June 1914 of an anaemic condition in a nursing home in Philadelphia, where he had gone for treatment. Mossom Boyd Sr had carved his niche in the forests of the Trent watershed

organized courses for the Sœurs de la Charité de Québec, the owners of the asylum (which had become the Hôpital Saint-Michel-Archange), to prepare them to get their nursing diplomas. In 1923, when the

introduced the first Canadian bsc degree in nursing, advocated a broadly based engineering curriculum for geologists, and inaugurated the teaching of geography as a discipline

were systematized and the number of deliveries students had to attend before graduation rose from six to twenty by 1911–12. Cameron also implemented a program for the training of student nurses at the

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

Sisters of Charity opened the first nursing home in the city, the Mater Misericordiae Home. Mother Vincent spent her last four years in a wheelchair, in

resigned as president of the Victorian Order of Nurses only in 1918, at the age of 80. He died two years later and was survived by his son, Reginald Mortimer, a noted civil engineer and militia

Winnipeg Daly took a keen interest in the work of the Children’s Hospital, the Margaret Scott Nursing Mission, the Young Men’s Christian Association, the Salvation Army, and St Luke’s Anglican Church

Victorian Order of Nurses. Understandably, a good deal of her time also went into making social contributions to the career of her husband, who was knighted in 1914