Finding the Forty-Seven: Canadian Nurses of the First World War

This blog is dedicated to reclaiming the lives and experience of those Canadian nurses who died while serving overseas during World War I.

Thursday, September 15, 2016

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It has been a long time since I've posted, but I wanted to let you know I'm alive and well and plan to start blogging regularly agai...
Wednesday, November 11, 2015

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Hello again after an absence of some months. I've moved to beautiful BC and will be writing regularly once again very soon. On this Reme...
Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Canadian Red Cross Headquarters, London

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Many Canadian voluntary nurses (VADs) served at Canadian Red Cross Headquarters in London during the Great War. Mary MacLeod Moore, in her b...

VAD Death at the End of the War

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The February 1920 issue of The Red Cross Journal included the short mention of the death of a voluntary Red Cross nurse: "We regret to...
Monday, June 22, 2015

Recognition of a Groundbreaking Nursing Sister

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I have good news to report in today's post. An Edmonton school is to be named after Roberta MacAdams , a nursing sister who enlisted in ...
Wednesday, February 25, 2015

The Forgotten: Lenna Mae Jenner

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There are few records with which we can trace the life of Nursing Sister Lenna Mae Jenner. What we do know—according to her military service...
Monday, February 2, 2015

Sisters Sewing to Save Soldiers

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According to David Parsons of the WWI-Listserve, Capt. Cluny Macpherso, RAMC, a physician from St John's Newfoundland was at St Omer the...
Monday, January 26, 2015

A Poignant Letter to the Editor

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A letter to the editor sent to the Vancouver Sun on April 6, 1919 raises questions that many of us still ask today about the failure to re...
Saturday, January 24, 2015

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This is a photo of Rena McLean, provided courtesy of Katherine Dewar. In future blog posts I hope to add more photos of Rena.
Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Heroic PEI Nursing Sisters in WWI

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Book Review Those Splendid Girls by Katherine Dewar explores the lives and work of the 115 nursing sisters of Prince Edward Island who se...
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Debbie Marshall
I am a British Columbia writer and editor. My work has appeared in anthologies such as Dropped Threads II and in magazines such as The Beaver, United Church Observer, Legacy, Alberta Views, Exchange, Mandate, Compass, Our Canada, as well as other publications. My most recent book is Firing Lines: Three Canadian Women Write the First World War (Dundurn: 2017)
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