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Seven years later she graduated from the Calgary Hospital, the first fully trained nurse to receive her diploma in the province of Alberta.
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Marion Moodie
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She was the first nurse to graduate in Alberta. Born in the Quebec City, of Scottish/English descent, Mission Moodie went west to Calgary, with her family, in 1891. Foreign five years she engaged in private nursing and hospital work in central and southern Alberta, and later in Manitoba.
During the war Mission Moodie was nursing sister, and later matron, at Ogden Military Hospital, Calgary.
A keen student and lover of nature, Mission Moodie found time, in her busy pioneer life, to make botanical collections of the flora of Alberta for the provincial government at Edmonton, as well as for such well-known American institutions as the Smithsonian, the New York Botanical Gardens, Harvard University, and the Field Museum, Chicago. An earlier book of poems appeared under the title "Songs of the West," and a fairy-tale book, "The Legend of Dryas," in addition to which Mission Moodie has been a frequent contributor to Canadian periodicals of articles on pioneer nursing, children"s stories and articles reflecting her interest in and love for the out-of-doors. from "Songs of the West": The Call of the Woods Featuring cover artwork by Crystal Bretschger Johansson.
