That year, Canada formally ended the state of war with Germany. Sadly, the Korean War, on the other side of the world, was now making headlines and touching our lives here in Manitoba, too. J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye was creating waves. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and His Royal Highness The Prince Phillip Duke of Edinburgh graced us with a Royal Visit. And Elinor Black became the first woman to head a Canadian medical school department, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, at the University of Manitoba and the Winnipeg General Hospital.
Nurses are synonymous with a sense of caring and compassion.
You, and those who preceded and followed you, have all played an important role in the cultural, economic and social development of communities right across Manitoba, Canada and beyond. You have worked under changing and challenging circumstances. Like the 1953 polio epidemic that greeted you early in your career. Sometimes, your work has taken you to happy places where families are welcoming new babies or where patients are well on the road to recovery. Other times, you have been surrounded by people who are extremely ill or perhaps dying.