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Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Livingston, Gertrude Elizabeth, 1847-1927
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Description area
Dates of existence
1847-1927
History
Born in Sault Ste-Marie, Michigan, of English parents, Nora Livingston moved to Como, Québec when she was a child. She went back to the United States to study nursing and graduated from the New York Hospital's Training School for Nurses. In 1890, she became the Lady Superintendent of the Montreal General Hospital and was the founder and director of the hospital's training school for nurses. Due to illness, she resigned from her position in 1919.