Background
Elizabeth Jennet Wyllie was born in Toronto in 1847, the second daughter of Mary Ann Reid and George Black Wyllie.
Elizabeth Jennet Wyllie was born in Toronto in 1847, the second daughter of Mary Ann Reid and George Black Wyllie.
After that ten years, she began to work more intensely with medical aid for the sick and poor. In her forties and after her husband"s death in 1888, she trained to become a nurse in Chicago at Illinois Training School for Nurses (program merged in 1926 into the University of Chicago"s School of Nursing and ceased to exist in 1929). She later returned to Chicago, where she died in 1903.
The Great Ormond Street Hospital was the influence for her to establish the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.