Shirley Marie Stinson
Shirley Marie Stinson (December 10, 1929 – June 4, 2020) known as the "architect of nursing research" was a Canadian nursing leader who made major contributions to nursing graduate education in Alberta and nursing research internationally. She was the first Alberta nurse to earn a doctorate, and the first woman and first nurse to be awarded a Canadian federal title of “Senior National Health Research Scientist”. She was President of the Canadian Nurses Association, served in an advisory role to the World Health Organization, received four honorary doctoral degrees, and was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada  in 2001. Early life. Shirley Marie Stinson was born on December 10, 1929 in Arelee, Saskatchewan, Canada to parents Edwin and Mary (Ismond) Stinson. She was the second of three children in the family. The family moved to Tofield, Alberta, Canada in 1935, and Alberta became her home province from then on. As a teenager in Tofield in the 1940s, she dreamed of becoming an architect like her idol Frank Lloyd Wright. Even though her career took a different path into nursing, she had a mind for design and later became known as the "architect of nursing research in Canada