nursing staff, Florence Nightingale being his friend and adviser in this effort. Second, he improved the care of the mentally ill, by converting it from restraint to regular ward-care along humane lines

there, travelling regularly to Cuba and resuming his work on a smaller scale. He married his nursing aide, Mathilde Savard, who accompanied him during his Florida stay

.” At Oxford the Oslers acquired a beautiful home near the Bodleian Library. It became the focus for many hundreds of visitors over the next 14 years. Students, visiting colleagues, nurses, friends

being chief administrative officer, he served as bursar, taught classes, purchased food from local farmers, supervised the culinary staff, worked as an infirmary nurse, and launched a second local

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

premises clean, do the shopping, and give alms to the poor. In addition, he acted as barber and as nurse to sick students, handled the mail, and transported parcels for the students, whom he sometimes

house of Providence that Bishop Saint-Vallier was to open his Hôpital Général in 1689, appointing two sisters of the Congrégation as nurses to take care of the aged

 Aberdeen was associated, such as the National Council of Women of Canada and the Victorian Order of Nurses. His friendship with the Aberdeens continued until his death

Victoria and she nursed him through his declining years. Money continued to be a source of worry, and after the Conservatives returned to power in Ottawa under Robert Laird

infant. In 1852 his mother, whose memory Dryden revered, had nursed him and his siblings through an attack of typhoid fever before succumbing to the disease. His father then married a Methodist, Mary

thrown from his horse, and then nursed him back to health with soft words and alcohol. And he delighted in dressing the part of the uncouth backwoodsman, and then surprising onlookers with a learned

who was fluent in French, Lady Minto was adept at social diplomacy. During her Ottawa years she served as honorary president of the Victorian Order of Nurses, the National Council of Women of

was deeply mortified at his inability to provide for his family as an artist. He decided to immigrate to Upper Canada, and in June 1843, with his wife, three children, a nurse, and a brother

preaching and pastoral work at St Andrew’s, he was active in efforts to found a nurses’ training school at the Protestant hospital in Ottawa. He served on committees of the Church of Scotland synod and

. When Lady Aberdeen established the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada, Hoodless assisted the initiative in Hamilton. Hoodless was concerned not

documents a tour he made in October 1834 of the Palatinate region, where he may have met Sybille Reuter. According to family lore he developed smallpox, and Billa, as he called her, nursed him back to

1895 and 1896, and of the Board of Trade in 1899 and 1900. He continued to nurture friendships with top bankers and was doing important work for the Victorian Order of Nurses. As well, his wealth and

L’Heureux found him close to death in 1865 and nursed him back to health. Later that year he was caught in the ongoing war between Blackfoot and Cree. He was camped

Northumberland. He stood as an independent and was critical of Macdonald and his policies, for he was still nursing grievances. The matter of the National Policy was one. Also, he felt he had been slighted in 1878

personality. Immensely proud, nursing a grudge over the Crevier–Fluet affair, O’Grady lashed out at McDonell because the bishop seemed intent on humiliating him. To the bishop, O’Grady had been a priest whom he