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

final year. Yet even at the Montreal General Hospital, where she went for clinical work, she was not welcomed by the superintendent of nursing, Gertrude Elizabeth (Nora

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

few months after the method had been perfected by Théodore Tuffier in Paris. Specialized care required more continuous medical supervision and a more highly qualified nursing staff. At Ahern’s request

to be a favourite with the local practical nurses and lay midwives, “who delighted to tell of his velvety hands

its board of trustees from 1912 until his death. He was also a member for 25 years of the advisory board of the Margaret Scott Nursing Mission. His proudest achievement, however, was the

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

of the Victorian Order of Nurses. He was involved in his community as well as a governor of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Montreal, as president of the Fraser Institute’s free library and

daughters; m. secondly 5 Sept. 1917 Jessie Reid, a nurse, in Paddington (London); d. 25 May 1933 in Montreal. In 1873 George Eli

mandate, the board hired public health nurses, the first in Canada. Speaking to the board’s report during the session of 1918, Armstrong was able to point to favourable results after only one full year of

serve as his attorney in dealings with Congress. The Ursulines did the same in order to obtain reimbursement for the expenses incurring in nursing the American soldiers. Badeaux’s efforts met with no

resign forced an amnesty for Louis-Joseph Papineau*. Baldwin, in contrast, nursed old grievances and made no direct effort for W. L

Special Hospital in Lenham, he married nurse Eugenie Ledoux, a native of Quebec who had been raised in Manitoba and had worked with him at the Manitoba Sanatorium. Baragar was demobilized at the rank of

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

the touchy chaplain of the Zouaves, Louis-Edmond Moreau, had seen Barnard’s arrival as a sign that the Catholic hierarchy of Quebec lacked confidence in him, and had begun nursing a personal rivalry

BARRINGTON, SIBELLA ANNIE, registered nurse and administrator; b. 4 Dec. 1867 in Sydney Mines, N.S., daughter of York

Virtue, a Salvation Army nurse who was appointed to the force in 1918. Egan easily made the transition from social work to police work. As an SPC agent she had, she believed, exercised provincewide the

School of Nursing (Saint John, N.B., 1955). J. W. Lawrence, “The medical men of St. John in its first half century,” N.B. Hist. Soc., Coll., I (1894), 298–99.

, delivered by request at the St. John Mechanics’ Institute, on Feb. 4th, 1884 ([Saint John?, 1884?]); An address delivered at the opening of the training school for nurses