Category: Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada

Categories: Canada, Organizations | Nurses | Health Care Organisations

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This category contains profiles of members of the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada.

In the late 1890s, Canada faced a dangerous shortage of nurses, doctors and hospitals, especially in remote areas. Lady Ishbel Aberdeen, wife of Canada’s Governor General, learned just how badly this affected people when she participated in the annual meeting of the National Council of Women held in Halifax in 1896. She later wrote about the “pathetic stories” she heard, “where young mothers and children had died, whilst husbands and fathers were traveling many weary miles for the medical and nursing aid which might have saved them.”

See Also

Victorian Order of Nurses, Canada

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Person Profiles (19)

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Edith Archibald 05 Apr 1854 St. John's, Colony of Newfoundland - 11 May 1936

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Mary Bliss 1918 Fort William, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada - 2009

Beatrix (Brookes) Morton abt Aug 1904 British Columbia, Canada - 28 Nov 1939

Jane (Buchan) Rose 11 Feb 1860 Canada West - 16 Oct 1944

Isabel (Burns) Afford 25 Feb 1920 Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada - 31 Jan 1994

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Edith Campbell 12 Dec 1871 Montreal, Quebec, Canada - 22 Feb 1951

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Adeline (Davis) Foster 14 Apr 1844 Hamilton, Ontario, Canada - 17 Sep 1919

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Margaret (Drummond) Page 07 May 1918 Mitchell, Perth County, Ontario, Canada - 03 Mar 2011

E

Marjory Ewart 08 May 1896 Nepean, Carleton, Ontario, Canada - 05 Jan 1971

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Jean (Knickle) Whynacht 16 Feb 1898 Lunenburg, Nova Scotia - 05 Apr 1992

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Ishbel (Marjoribanks) Hamilton-Gordon 15 Mar 1857 City of London, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom - 18 Apr 1939

Edith Mayou 24 Dec 1858 Fazeley, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom - 16 Jul 1929

Henrietta (Muir) Edwards 18 Dec 1849 Montreal, Canada East - 10 Nov 1931

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Alma (Pallesen) Burns 04 Dec 1904 - 27 Jan 1958

Georgia Pond abt 31 Mar 1893 Boiestown, Ludlow, Northumberland, New Brunswick, Canada - 09 Sep 1953

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Katherine (Skead) Bell abt 08 Oct 1863 Ottawa, Canada West - 09 Jan 1954

Charlotte (St. John) Oille 20 Mar 1834 Dunnville, Haldimand, Haldimand-Norfolk, Ontario, Canada - 09 Feb 1930

Sophia (Sullivan) Schendel 02 Mar 1887 Cairo, Euphemia, Lambton, Ontario, Canada - 05 Mar 1972

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Marion (Whebby) DeBeck 27 Mar 1914 Dartmouth, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada - 06 Mar 2005

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