Emily Patterson
Subtitle: The Heroic Life of a Milltown Nurse
Publisher: Ronsdale Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781553805052
Subjects: Nurses, biography; Vancouver (b.c.), history; Canada, biography
Description: "A biography of Emily Patterson and her life from the time when she emigrated with her family from Bath, Maine, USA, in the 1860s first to the Alberni Canal on Vancouver Island, then to the Willamette Valley and finally to Hastings Mill and Moodyville (now in Metro Vancouver). Much good material about Emily's life as a self-taught nurse, and good information about the native peoples on the Alberni Canal, as well as the life in sawmill towns. Also good information about early Vancouver."--