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One of Canada’s first naval nursing sisters

In 1943, at the pinnacle of the Second World War, Margaret “Greet” Ferguson, a graduate nurse trained in a Toronto hospital, found herself treating wounded Canadian sailors at the base in Newfoundland. She was one among 99 other nurses chosen as Canada’s first contingent of Naval Nursing Sisters. “I always had wanted to be a […]