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Anne E. Ross fonds [textual record, graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1915-1918.

Reference:

R2672-0-7-E, MG30-E446

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

102752

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Anne E. Ross fonds
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Fonds includes:

1 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1915-1918.

Place of creation:

Canada

Added country of publication:

England, Greece

Extent:

0.4 cm of textual material.
1,588 photographs : b&w.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of a narrative by Anne E. Ross describing her service as a nursing sister with No. 3 Stationary Hospital, Canadian Army Medical Corps, and with the Duchess of Connaught's Canadian Red Cross Hospital in England, France, and the Mediterranean.

Fonds also consists of photographic material depicting group photos, activities and personnel of nursing sisters of No. 3 Stationary Hospital, C.A.M.C., Ottawa, Ontario, photos taking place in Canada, England, and in the Mediterranean theatre of operations while based on the island of Lemmos, of staff, patients, faculties, major events and visitors at the Duchess of Connaught's Canadian Red Cross Hospital and photographs from the First World War.

Provenance:

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Ross, Anne E., 1890-1981
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Canada. Canadian Army. Stationary Hospital, No.3

Canada. Armée canadienne. Stationary Hospital, No.3

Canada. Canadian Army. Royal Canadian Army Service Corps

Canada. Armée canadienne. Royal Canadian Army Service Corps

Ross, Anne E., 1890-1981
Biography/Administrative history:

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Ross, Anne E., 1890-1981 : Anne E. (Annie) Stinson was born in in Nepean Township, Carleton County, Ontario in April 1890. She graduated from the Lady Stanley Institute in Ottawa (later the Ottawa Civic Hospital Nursing School) in 1913. After additional training in 1914 at the Quebec Military Hospital, she enlisted in the Canadian Army Medical Corps (CAMC) as a nursing sister on 12 April 1915. Stinson went overseas and saw service with No. 3 Stationary Hospital, CAMC, and the Duchess of Connaught's Canadian Red Cross Hospital. After a short period in England at the Astor estate in Taplow, she served in Alexandria, Egypt, Lemnos in the Greek Islands and France. For the last five months of the war, she held the position of night supervisor with responsibility for a hospital with 36 wards of 40 patients each.

After the war, she continued her service as a military nurse in Kingston, Ont. until her marriage to Brigadier General Arthur Edward Ross in 1923. Anne E. Ross was active in the Red Cross, the Infant's Home in Kingston, and local politics. During World War II she worked with the Salvation Army's Red Shield. She died in Kingston, Ont. in 1981.

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Custodial history:

Received in 1982 from Dr. A.E. Ross of Kingston, Ont., through the Documentary Art and Photography Division.

Related material:

Papers of Brig-Gen. A. E. Ross can be found under call number MG 30 E 76.
Subject heading:

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World War, 1914-1918

Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1965-041 NPC
1982-174 NPC

Former archival reference no.:

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MG30-E446
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MG30 E 446] 1

[Consultation 90 Open]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

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Photographs: No restrictions on use or reproduction. Copyright expired. Credit: name of photographer / Library and Archives Canada / copy negative number.
Textual material: No restrictions on use or reproduction. Copyright: Estate of Anne E. Ross.

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