Buckland (nee Wilshire), Gertrude “Billie” (1881-1961)

Gertrude was born in Australia where she trained as a nurse to help ease her family’s financial burden occasioned by her father’s death., graduating from Sydney Hospital in 1902.  She travelled to Canada where she worked at the Vancouver City Hospital.  Later she moved to New Zealand with her husband, then back to Canada in 1921.  She raised a total of seven children.

Contents of Biographical File

  1. Sponsoring information by Kirstine Buckland Griffith for Pages of History.
  2. Photograph