, Dickson “was to befriend virtually every blinded Canadian soldier.” Dickson’s other major interest was first aid. He was a friend of American nurse

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

the medical studies that preceded Fairweather’s return. Beginning in the autumn of 1880, she spent two years in nurses’ training at Charity Hospital

Compain* inherited when he left. Finally, his well-informed opinion was sought when nurses had to be chosen for foundlings, and he was called on to adjudicate disputed bills of certain of his colleagues

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

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

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

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

assistance in nursing his younger brother Lloyd Cusack Athill Murray, who suffered from some wasting sickness. The mid 1870s were a period of loss for the Harman household: the remaining daughter died in 1874

British nurse executed during World War I. The child’s death was incontrovertible proof of the evil of Nazism, observed the Reverend Charles Lynch Cowan, one of the clergymen presiding at the service

contribution of the former mayor (1917–20) to the founding of the Civic Hospital. Among the works by the artist, one that stands out is the Nursing sisters’ memorial (1926): mounted in the Hall of

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

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

 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

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

. 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

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

. Le Sueur was supposed to leave France on the Loire in 1703 but he did not actually sail until the spring of 1704 aboard the Pélican. The ship, which was carrying nurses and women

 Bellefeuille and his colleague Omer Noël, as well as two nurses who had been trained in psychology, were hired to conduct a psychometric examination of certain pupils in the first three primary grades of the