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.”

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Person Profiles (17)

A

05 Apr 1854 St. John's, Newfoundland - 11 May 1936 photo

B

abt Aug 1904 British Columbia, Canada - 28 Nov 1939
11 Feb 1860 Canada West - 16 Oct 1944 photo
25 Feb 1920 Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada - 31 Jan 1994

C

12 Dec 1871 Montreal, Quebec, Canada - 22 Feb 1951 photo

D

14 Apr 1844 Hamilton, Ontario, Canada - 17 Sep 1919 photo
07 May 1918 Mitchell, Perth County, Ontario, Canada - 03 Mar 2011

E

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

K

16 Feb 1898 Lunenburg, Nova Scotia - 05 Apr 1992

M

15 Mar 1857 City of London, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom - 18 Apr 1939 photo
18 Dec 1849 Montreal, Canada East - 10 Nov 1931 photo

P

04 Dec 1904 - 27 Jan 1958
abt 31 Mar 1893 Boiestown, Ludlow, Northumberland, New Brunswick, Canada - 09 Sep 1953

S

abt 08 Oct 1863 Ottawa, Canada West - 09 Jan 1954 photo
20 Mar 1834 Dunnville, Haldimand, Haldimand-Norfolk, Ontario, Canada - 09 Feb 1930 photo
02 Mar 1887 Cairo, Euphemia, Lambton, Ontario, Canada - 05 Mar 1972 photo

W

27 Mar 1914 Dartmouth, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada - 06 Mar 2005 photo




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