Identity area
Type of entity
Authorized form of name
Morrison, Jessie Grace
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
History
Jessie Morrison came to the West with her family via Cape Breton and Boston. She trained as a nurse at Winnipeg General Hospital, graduating in 1926. In 1941 she joined the RCAMC and was posted to England and Normandy with the #10 Canadian General Hospital. She returned to Canada in 1945 for discharge and began working with the veterans' hospitals in Edmonton (Colonel Mewburn and the Wells Pavilions) and in Calgary (Colonel Belcher Hospital) under the Federal Department of Veterans Affairs. Miss Morrison went to the Montreal for a term to assist in setting up the program at the School of Nursing Aides for the Federal Department of Veterans' Affairs (CVA). In 1949 she became Matron/Director of Nursing at the Nursing Sisters of Canada and of the Alberta Association of Registered Nurses. She was a founding member of the AARN Archives and Museum.
Places
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
Mandates/sources of authority
Internal structures/genealogy
General context
Relationships area
Access points area
Subject access points
Place access points
Occupations
Control area
Authority record identifier
Institution identifier
College & Association of Registered Nurses of Alberta Museum and Archives