Memoirs of a Professional Lady nurse

Memoirs of a Professional Lady nurse

Women
Female profession
nurse
British Columbia
travel
natives
conditions during gold rush

The memoirs have been typed and documented then published in a book in order to preserve methods of Nursing during the 19th century. The book also features diagrams and pictures illustrated by hand which offers further primary evidence which have also been printed into the book. The memoirs are taken from a female nurse travelling around British Columbia and focus primarily on visit’s to the mine workers working in the gold mines during the Cariboo gold rush (1861-1867). Due to the efforts of the Chinese immigrant workers building the Canadian pacific railway, she was able to visit town after town setting up camp in-between viewing patients. Due to the working conditions in the mines lacking any health and safety, accidents were more than apparent and fatalities common. The memoirs state that she always travelled alongside her husband to visit patients and spoke of being paid in gold for her services.

Stannard.M

Book published by; Simpkin, Marshall and Co
Vancouver: University of British Columbia Library: rare books and special collection
Reference: F5804.3

https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcbooks/items/1.0222196#p52z-6r0f:lady

1873

Lauren-Ann Saunders

Vancouver: University of British Columbia Library

English

Textual - printed: published memoirs

19th century British Columbia