Nursing

Team in the trauma bay, MGH, 2020. Image courtesy of the Montreal General Hospital Foundation.

Copy of a Pencil Sketch of Florence Nightingale by Sir George Scharf belonging to the Alumnae Association of the Montreal General Hospital School of Nursing.

Cover of Nightingale’s Notes on Nursing (first published 1859), courtesy of the Alumnae Association of the Montreal General Hospital School of Nursing

Appreciation for MGH Nurses, 2020. Courtesy the Montreal General Hospital Foundation

Typical 3-trailer nursing station in Grise Fiord, Ellesmere Island, present-day Nunavut, 1970. Photo taken by Dr. Jane Forsey during an elective for her fourth year of medical school. Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC, Berkovitz Fonds, 2014-0014.04.850.8

Gazette article by Elizabeth Thompson, 6 September 1989. Material republished with the express permission of: Montreal Gazette, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.

Last graduation at Place des Arts, 1972. Archives of the Alumnae Association of the Montreal General Hospital School of Nursing

Final graduating class of the MGH School of Nursing, Livingston Hall, 1972. Archives of the Alumnae Association of the Montreal General Hospital School of Nursing

Valerie Shannon accepting the Insigne du Mérite from the Ordre des infirmières et infirmiers du Quebec, 1997. Courtesy archives of the Ordre des infirmières et infirmiers du Quebec

Dr. Moyra Allen, 1970. Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC, Berkovitz Fonds, 2014-0014.04.1635

Taylor grants the first-ever ANPQ license to a male nurse, Jean Robitaille, in 1970. Courtesy archives of the Ordre des infirmières et infirmiers du Québec

Helen Taylor, c. 1975-80. Archives of the Alumnae Association of the Montreal General Hospital School of Nursing

MacLeod, seated, 2nd from left, with members of the MGH School of Nursing student government, 1967. Archives of the Alumnae Association of the Montreal General Hospital School of Nursing

Isobel MacLeod receiving her honorary doctorate from McGill, 1972. Archives of the Alumnae Association of the Montreal General Hospital School of Nursing

Cover of Three Centuries of Canadian Nursing, 1947

Cardiac Monitoring Unit, c. 1970. Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC, Berkovitz Fonds, 2104-0014.04.669.2

Head nurse Margaret Eades, right, in the Medical Intensive Care Unit, c. 1975. Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC, Berkovitz Fonds, 2014-0014.04.669.3

Surgical Intensive Care Unit, c. 1981. Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC, Berkovitz Fonds, 2014-0014.04.1013

Nurses in a four-bed ward, 1955. Archives of the Alumnae Association of the Montreal General Hospital School of Nursing

Mobile cantine truck donated by MGH nursing alumnae during WWII. McGill University Archives, PR027663

Blanche J. Herman, Matron, no. 14 Canadian General Hospital, 1941. McGill University Archives, PL007185

Nurses on the lawn of the MGH, Dorchester Street, 1915. Archives of the Alumnae Association of the Montreal General Hospital School of Nursing

Mabel Kathleen Holt, 1940. Archives of the Alumnae Association of the Montreal General Hospital School of Nursing

Miss Sarah E. Young, Montreal General Hospital School of Nursing, c. 1925. McGill University Archives, PN027675

Students in the Montreal General Hospital School of Nursing in a laboratory course, 1945. Archives of the Alumnae Association of the Montreal General Hospital School of Nursing

Class of 1940-41, Montreal General Hospital School of Nursing. Archives of the Alumnae Association of the Montreal General Hospital School of Nursing

Obstetrics & Gynecology Clinic, 1938. L-R: Dr. Eleanor Percival (seated), Miss Irene Parker, Dr. K.T. MacFarlane, Dr. D.W. Sparling, Miss Jean Macrae, Dr. A.D. Campbell (seated), Dr. C.V. Ward. Art and Heritage Centre of the MUHC, Obstetrics and Gynecology Fonds, 2017.0003.04.13

Certificate from the MGH presented to nurse Janet Morell for service during the 1918 influenza Pandemic. Archives of Alumnae Association of the Montreal General Hospital School of Nursing

Nursing Sister Margaret Jane Fortescue, c. 1918. Imperial War Museums, WWC H22/11

(Left) Nursing Sister Gladys Irene Sare, 1917. McGill University Archives, PR015452; (Right) Nursing Sister Margaret Jane Fortescue, c. 1918. Imperial War Museums, WWC H22/11

Nursing Sisters at funeral, No. 3 Canadian General Hospital, c. 1916. Archives of the Alumnae Association of the Montreal General Hospital School of Nursing.

Surgery being performed in a converted cowshed in Boulogne, c. 1915-17. From A.H. Pirie’s Views Illustrating Life and Scenes in the Hospital, 1923.

O.C. and Nurses, No. 3 Canadian General Hospital, 1919. Library and Archives Canada, PA-003948

Nursing Sisters Ruth Loggie and Gillian Dickie, ready for deployment overseas with the No. 3 Canadian General Hospital, 1915. McGill University Archives, PA003001

Letter from MGH Nursing Sister E. Frances Upton, from Salonica, Greece, 1916. Archives of the Alumnae Association of the Montreal General Hospital School of Nursing

Fabric swatches showing School of Nursing’s ‘MGH’ monogram print, with Margaret Suttie’s MGH School of Nursing graduate’s pin. Courtesy of the Alumnae Association of the Montreal General Hospital School of Nursing

Ward M, Surgical Pavilion, Montreal General Hospital (Dorchester location), c. 1904. Courtesy of the Alumnae Association of the Montreal General Hospital School of Nursing

Flora Madeline Shaw, Director of the McGill School for Graduate Nurses, c. 1925. McGill University Archives, PR001183

School of Nursing Class of 1891 (first graduating class), courtesy of the Alumnae Association of the Montreal General Hospital School of Nursing.

Lena Anderson (Mrs. J.J. Ower) in a typical MGH nurses’ uniform (with graduate pin) 1911, Courtesy of the Alumnae Association of the Montreal General Hospital School of Nursing

Miss Nora Livingston, Founder of the School of Nursing, at her desk in the Montreal General Hospital, c. 1895. Archives of the Alumnae Association of the Montreal General Hospital School of Nursing

General Hospital Nurses, Montreal, QC, 1895. Wm. Notman & Son. McCord Museum, II-113321

Dr. Hutchinson and the class of 1905 in the operating room of the Montreal General Hospital, 1905. Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC, Mann Fonds, 2017-0001.04.1.30