A Life of Caring

By Marilyn Beaton
With Marilyn Marsh & Jeanette Walsh

A collection of oral histories from nurses practicing during the 20s and 30s in Newfoundland and Labrador.

A Trip to Labrador

By Kirby Walsh

A Trip to Labrador contains the letters and journal of Edward Caldwell Moore, who accompanied Sir Wilfred Grenfell to Labrador in 1905 on the hospital ship Strathcona. A Presbyterian minister and professor at Harvard University, Moore writes of his impressions of the land and ... Read more

Agnes Warner and the Nursing Sisters of the Great War

By Shawna M. Quinn

Through ear-splitting, thunderous explosions and fearful eerie flashes in the distance, the nurses of the Canadian Army Nursing Service in World War I waited for the inevitable arrival of wounded soldiers. At the Casualty Clearing Houses, they worked at a feverish pace to give ... Read more

Agnes Warner and the Nursing Sisters of the Great War

By Shawna M. Quinn

Through ear-splitting, thunderous explosions and fearful eerie flashes in the distance, the nurses of the Canadian Army Nursing Service in World War I waited for the inevitable arrival of wounded soldiers. At the Casualty Clearing Houses, they worked at a feverish pace to give ... Read more

Amazing Medical Stories

By George Burden & Dorothy Grant

The twenty true tales in Amazing Medical Stories give a rich and entertaining picture of the ways in which medical workers (both real and fake) have used the keys to the mysterious kingdom of life: health, disease, and physical anomaly, birth, death, and post-mortem diagnosis. ... Read more

Come From Away

By Marilyn Beaton & Jeanette Walsh

The third volume in the best-selling nursing history series. Overseas recruitment of nurses has been part of nursing in Newfoundland and Labrador since Wilfred Grenfell brought the first two nurses to Labrador in 1893. It is believed that hundreds of nurses have come from away ... Read more

Nothing Ordinary

By Larry Krotz

This is the story of how 800,000 citizens created their own school of medicine, and what it has meant for the region and its people.
Northern Ontario is a vast territory — almost as big as France and Germany combined — with a widely scattered population the size of only ... Read more

Radical Medicine

By Esyllt Jones

Winner!
Canadian Historical Association Clio Prize

Finalist!

CHA Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History PrizeAlexander Kennedy?Isbister?Award for Non-FictionMcNally Robinson Book of the Year

The origins of medicare have long been told as a simple and satisfying story: a good idea, ... Read more