faulknermargaretFaulkner (nee Goodwin), Margaret
(ca. 189- – 1986)

Margaret graduated from the Vancouver General Hospital School of Nursing in 1918.  She recalls twelve hour shifts that started at 7 am after the daily service.  Student nurses were paid from $6 to $10 a month.  One room was kept for Orientals, and in the basement Ward X housed the isolation cases and mental patients.  She left to raise a family but returned after WW II.  For thirty years she was executive secretary for the over 6,000 member alumnae.

Contents of Biographical File

  1. Biographical note
  2. Photocopied photograph, 1974