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BIOGRAPHICAL FILES: Thomson (nee Thorsteinson), Bertha (1888-1975) Back to all Biographical Files Born in Iceland, Bertha emigrated from Isafhjorfur to Winnipeg in 1893. Her family homesteaded in the Holar District in southeastern Saskatchewan. After training as a...
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BIOGRAPHICAL FILES: Tisdall-Hatfield, Edith White “Toddy”(1905-1984) Back to all Biographical Files See Edith Tisdall Fonds 14 Edith White Tisdall was born in Vancouver, where her entrepreneurial father was a gunsmith and retail merchant; by the time she entered the...
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Biographical Files: Trethewey, Cora(1903-1993) Back to all Biographical Files See Mary Ann Trethewey Biographical File The Trethewey family was well-known BC pioneers in logging and mining in the Lower Mainland. Cora, whose grandmother was the pioneer nurse Mary Ann...
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BIOGRAPHICAL FILES: Trethewey nee Howard Grace (1918-2008) Back to all Biographical Files Edna graduated from VGH in 1940 and from UBC in 1941, with a BASc(N). After graduation, she worked for the Provincial Board of Health in Saanich. She ceased regular nursing when...
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BIOGRAPHICAL FILES: Trethewey (nee Ogle), Mary Ann (1834-1908) Back to all Biographical Files See Cora Trethewey Biographical File Born in England, Mary Ann was hired in 1855 as a certified nurse to care for Eliza Trethewey of Crich, England, and came to Canada in the...
