Elizabeth McMaster
Elizabeth McMaster (December 27, 1847 – March 3, 1903) was a Canadian humanitarian and head of the committee which founded the Hospital for Sick Children.[1]
Elizabeth McMaster | |
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| Born | Elizabeth Jennet Wyllie |
| Died | March 27, 1903 (aged 55) |
| Nationality | Canadian |
Later Years
In her forties and after her husband's death in 1888, she trained to become a nurse in Chicago[1] at Illinois Training School for Nurses (program merged in 1926 into the University of Chicago's School of Nursing and ceased to exist in 1929[2]).[3] Graduating in 1891 McMaster left Chicago to work at the Hospital of the Good Samaritan in Los Angeles and Children's Home, an orphanage in Schenectady, New York.[3] She later returned to Chicago, where she died in 1903.
Legacy
The Great Ormond Street Hospital was the influence for her to establish the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.
References
- Young J (1994). "A divine mission: Elizabeth McMaster and the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, 1875-92". Can Bull Med Hist. 11 (1): 71–90. PMID 11639375. Full Text Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine.
- http://libsysdigi.library.uiuc.edu/OCA/Books2009-06/historyofillinoi00schr/historyofillinoi00schr.pdf
- http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=7154&
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