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Frances Cluett
(1883-1969)
Frances “Fanny” Cluett was born on June 25, 1883, in Belleoram, Fortune Bay, Newfoundland, to...
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Ethel Gertrude Dickinson
(1880 – 1918)
Ethel Gertrude Dickinson was born in St. John’s on July 6, 1880, the eldest of...
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Edith Weeks M.D.
(1882-1964)
First Newfoundland-born woman to earn a medical degree and first practising Canadian woman doctor.
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Mary Southcott
(1862-1943)
Founder of Newfoundland’s first nursing school and leader in the professionalization of nursing
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Margaret Alexandra
(Rendell) Shea (1863-1949)
First professionally trained nurse in Newfoundland
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Frances Cluett(1883-1969)

Ethel Gertrude Dickinson(1880 – 1918)

Edith Weeks M.D.(1882-1964)

Mary Southcott(1862-1943)

Margaret Alexandra(Rendell) Shea (1863-1949)

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Frances Cluett
(1883-1969)

Ethel Gertrude Dickinson
(1880 – 1918)

Edith Weeks M.D.
(1882-1964)

Mary Southcott
(1862-1943)

Margaret Alexandra
(Rendell) Shea (1863-1949)