Edith
Kathleen
Russell
Born in Windsor, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada
Ancestors 
Daughter of James Alexander Russell
and Margaret Eliza (Capron) Russell
Sister of
Mary Evelyn Russell
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 77
[location unknown]
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Biography
Daughter of Irish-born James Alexander and Mary Capron Russell, she was the founding director in 1933 of the University of Toronto School of Nursing.
Recipeint of the Florence Nightingale Medal (1949) from the Red Cross Society, its highest award.
Subject of a retrospective monograph titled, A Divine Discontent, by Helen M. Carpenter (1982)
Sources
- NS Archives birth record
- Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/162814621/edith-kathleen-russell : accessed 21 February 2022), memorial page for Dr Edith Kathleen Russell (Apr 1886–Feb 1964), Find a Grave Memorial ID 162814621, citing Paris Cemetery, Paris, Brant County Municipality, Ontario, Canada ; Maintained by J.P. Ward (contributor 50068001) .
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