Resources

Please click here to search an alphabetical listing of the nursing sisters featured in this exhibit:

 

Archival Sources

The following sources were consulted when developing this website:

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

Winnipeg General Hospital (F4)

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

Ada J. Ross Collection; C1

Alfreda Attrill Collection; C2

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

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

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

www.nationalarchives.gov.uk: The National Archives

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

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