Pioneer Nursing

• The first European nurses: the Grey Nuns Come to Alberta
• Nurses pioneered in Alberta
• Early nursing at the Calgary General Hospital
• Alberta’s first lay nurse: Mary Newton
• Formation of the Victorian Order of Nurses in Alberta
• Grey Nuns begin one of the first facilities in Calgary, the Holy Cross Hospital
• The story of hospitals in Edmonton
• Nursing during the depression
• The Impact of Spanish Influenza