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Margaret Clotilde MacDonald fonds [textual record]

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Fonds

Date:

1916-1953.

Reference:

R1942-0-X-E, MG30-E45

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Item ID number:

102368

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Margaret Clotilde MacDonald fonds
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Fonds includes:

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Date(s):

1916-1953.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

10 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of notes, memoranda, articles, narratives, publications and extracts from war diaries assembled by Matron-in-Chief M.C. MacDonald, for the purpose of compiling an official history of nursing services in the Canadian Corps, 1914-1918. Includes material on military hospitals in England, France and elsewhere. Chapters on military nursing in Canada before the First World War; early nursing activities, nursing sisters in the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)1914; their activities in 1915-1916; 1917; 1918; special hospitals and postwar activities; cooperation with Allied forces and the Red Cross as well as honours and awards. MacDonald's correspondence and memoranda on Canadian nursing sisters, Canadian stationary hospitals and the history of nursing and military nursing, 1923.

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MacDonald, Margaret Clotilde, 1879-1948

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MacDonald, Margaret Clotilde, 1879-1948

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MacDonald, Margaret Clotilde, 1879-1948 : Margaret C. Macdonald was born on 26 February 1879 in Bailey's Brook, Nova Scotia. She was educated at Mount St. Vincent Academy in Halifax. She then studied nursing at Charity Hospital Training School in New York City, graduating in 1895. Macdonald then worked in American military hospitals taking care of wounded Americans from the Spanish-American War. In 1898 she was one 5 nursing sisters who went to South Africa with the Canadian Army Medical Corps and was present at the seiges of Kimberley and Pretoria. At the end of the South Africa War, Macdonald returned to Canada but in 1903 she left for Panama to nurse workers striken by malaria and yellow fever. Returning to Canada she became a permanent member of the Canadian Army Medical Corps in 1906 and served in Halifax, Kingston and Quebec. In 1911 she was sent to study British military nursing. She volunteered for overseas service on 19 Sept. 1914 and was appointed Matron-in-Chief of Canadian nursing sisters. Major Macdonald left with the first Canadian contingent for Britain. From her headquarters in London, Macdonald directed nursing services in England, France and Greece which included causality clearing stations, Canadian general hospitals as well as hospital ships and trains. For her services, she was awarded the Royal Red Cross by King George V in 1916. She also received the Florence Nightingale Medal in 1918.

In 1920 Macdonald retired from CAMC and returned to Nova Scotia. She received a honorary DDL degree from Saint Francis Xavier University and was made a honorary life member of the National Council of Women of Canada. Margaret C. Macdonald died on 7 September 1948.

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General note:

Received in 1923 from M.C. Macdonald of Bailey's Brook, N.S. A few additional documents were transferred from the Directorate of History, D.N.D.
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World War, 1914-1918

Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918

Military nursing Canada

Soins infirmiers militaires Canada
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Private

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MG30-E45
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