Resources

Archival Sources

The following sources were consulted when developing this website:

1) Nurses’ Alumni Association of the Winnipeg General Hospital/Health Sciences Centre (F1)

  • Winnipeg General Hospital Alumnae Biographical Records, F1; A2: S7, [1889 – 1993]
  • Winnipeg General Hospital Nurses’ Alumnae Journals, F1; A2; S2, 1907 – present
  • Nursing Sisters from WGH serving during World War I, F1; A2; S7
  • Military Nursing, General, F1; A2; S16

2) Winnipeg General Hospital (F4)

  • Winnipeg General Hospital Annual Reports and Bylaws; F4; S4; 1882 – 1972

3) Ada J. Ross Collection; C1

4) Alfreda Attrill Collection; C2

5) Ruby Dickie Collection; C3

* Reference information for photographs, when available, is listed beneath the image.

Other Sources

Attrill, Jennie. A.J.A.: Diary of Jennie Attrill, 1877-1970. Compiled by Sandra Moulton. Published privately, 2002.

Hallet, Christine E. Veiled Warriors: Allied Nurses of the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Landells, E.A., ed. The Military Nurses of Canada: Recollections of Canadian Military Nurses. Vol. II. White Rock; Co-Publishing, 1999.

Mansell, Diana J. Forging the Future: A History of Nursing in Canada. Ann Arbor: Thomas Press Publishing, 2004.

Nicholson, G.W.L. Canada’s Nursing Sisters. Toronto: Samuel Stevens Hakkert and Company, 1975.

Norris, Marjorie Barron. Sister Heroines: The Roseate Glow of Wartime Nursing, 1914 – 1918. Calgary: Bunker to Bunker Publishing, 2002.

Toman, Cynthia. Sister Soldiers of the Great War; The Nurses of the Canadian Army Medical Corps. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2016.

Websites

Ancestry.ca (www.ancestry.ca)

Library and Archives Canada – Personnel Records of the First World War (http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca)

Library and Archives Canada –Guide to Sources Relating to Units of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, Canadian Army Medical Corps (www.collectionscanada.gc.ca)

The National Archives (www.nationalarchives.gov.uk)

The Canadian Great War Project (http://www.canadiangreatwarproject.com/)

Canadian Virtual War Memorial, Veterans Affairs Canada (http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial)

Alphabetical listing of the Nursing Sisters featured in this exhibit:

Last NameFirst NameYear of Graduation
AikmanLizzie Ramsay1912
AndrewAlba Elizabeth1909
AndrewsMaude Annie1913
AstonEvelyn1914
AttrillAlfreda Jenness1909
BaylissEthel1915
BeestonHilda1915
BellLola1908
BellConstance1915
BennettEthel1916
BestMay Agnes1910
BloyFlorence1915
BoddingtonHelen1899
BrownMaude King1898
BurnsMary Irene (Mamie)1907
CanningAnne1909
CarterEthel1914
CassidyJean Dickson1904
ChisholmJane1914
ChristophersonEleanor1916
CoadOlive1910
CobbeMary Lisetta (Mae)1906
CochraneJessie1913
ConnerGrace1914
ConnollyMargaret1913
CorelliHilda1909
CoulterAnnie1911
CowanJean1915
CowieJean1912
CrummeyDoris1917
CuddyAda1917
DaggAinslie St. Clair1916
DawsonWinnifred1914
DeasonEdith Mary1913
DickieRuby Belle1916
ErautVictoria1905
FergusonSadie1912
FogartyRachel1898
ForrestAnnie1907
FraserCatherine DeNully1906
GentJessie Margaret1909
GilliesClara1912
GollmerEdith Mabel1912
GrayKatherine Ethelwynne (Ethel)1916
GriffithsIvy1915
HallEvelyn1912
HamiltonAnnie Bertha1912
HardcastleCharlotte1915
HarriottGrace1916
HerringtonLenora1912
HodgeMeta1916
HoodClara1901
HoodAnnie1912
HoustonJean1915
HoustonMary1916
HoweMargaret1911
JamesHilda1915
JamiesonMary1913
JeffaresIsabel1916
JennerLenna Mae1913
JohnsonInga1907
JohnstonAnnie1907
JonesAlice1916
KilpatrickSusan Emma1911
LawAda1903
LawfordFlora1906
LloydIsabel1908
LongRosalind Mabel1913
Love [Ellie or Ella] Elizabeth1915
LoweMargaret1916
LumsdenEdith1900
LynchLilian1914
MacDonaldJosephine (Josie)1910
MacDonaldJean Alexandrina1912
MaceyEdith Frances1908
MaceyJessie1916
MacGregor Idella Gertrude1909
MacRaeMargaret Wilhelmina1911
MartinKatherine McMillan1916
MathesonJean1899
MathesonGladys1917
McBeanGrace1916
McClellandRuth Adelaide1914
McClungJanet1912
McCluskieVera1915
McGillMargaret1913
McGilvrayMargaret Campbell1910
McKayRuth1916
McKeagueAgnes1917
McKinnonIsabel1911
McLeodClara1899
McMillanOlive1913
McPhailElizabeth1916
MelvinElizabeth Matilda1916
MitchellAnnie Fisher1914
MontgomeryKate1918
MortimerIsabel1916
MurtonEmma1899
NewcombeLouise1911
OliverAlice Theodora (Dora)1914
OliverKatherine May1917
ParkerEllanore (Ella)1910
ParkerEmily1913
ParkerChristina1917
PaynterEthel Theodora1911
PerrinKathleen1916
PetchBernice1916
PollexfenStella1917
RayOlive1914
ReinhardtJessie1916
RiddleSarah1903
RinnMargaret1912
RitchieMary Esther Slee1917
RivingtonEleanor1915
RobertsonMargaret1914
RossMargaret1899
RossAda Janet1905
RossKathryn Dorothy1917
SamsonBertha1917
ScottMary Elizabeth1913
SharpeIrene Louise1915
ShawMary1915
Shepphard [Shepherd]Anne Beatrice (Annie)1915
SimpsonWinnifred Marion1915
SinclairIsabella1916
SkillenMarian Lucile (Letitia)1916
SmithJessie1909
SmithJessie Isobel1910
StevensonAlice Francis1918
StewartHelen Louise1906
StewartRuby Elizabeth1911
StewartEthel Isobel1915
StewartChristina May (Tena)1916
StinsonWinnifred1917
TaylorMargaret1916
ThorsteinsonBertha1914
TimlickMartha Mary Edith1917
TorrAlice1916
TurnerEmma Mary1908
UrquhartJean1910
WalkerNorma Turina1908
WaltersDora1917
WebbDorothy1913
WhiteMary1910
WhiteRenee1916
WhittickFlorence Katherine1910
WilsonFrederica1899
WilsonElsie Jean1915


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