Elizabeth McMaster (December 27, 1847 – March 3, 1903) was a Canadian humanitarian and head of the committee which founded the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.[1]
Elizabeth McMaster | |
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| Born | Elizabeth Jennet Wyllie |
| Died | March 27, 1903 (aged 55) |
| Nationality | Canadian |
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, which 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.
The Great Ormond Street Hospital was the influence for her to establish the Hospital for Sick Children.
References
edit- ^ a b 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. doi:10.3138/cbmh.11.1.71. PMID 11639375. Full Text Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ http://libsysdigi.library.uiuc.edu/OCA/Books2009-06/historyofillinoi00schr/historyofillinoi00schr.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ a b "Biography – WYLLIE, ELIZABETH JENNET – Volume XIII (1901-1910) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography".
External links
edit- Elizabeth McMaster biography - sickkids.ca.
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