Memorable Manitobans: Annie Simpson Rathbone (1879-1953)

Nurse.

Born at Grand Pre, Nova Scotia in 1879, she came to Winnipeg in 1896 and became the first district nurse with the Margaret Scott Mission. One of the original organizers of the Anti-Tubercular Society, she was Matron of the Ninette Sanatorium for three years before moving to the United States for a nursing position. During the First World War, she joined the American Red Cross and went overseas. Invalided back to Canada at the end of the war, she worked at Gibsons, British Columbia. She retired to Winnipeg in 1949 and died there at on 12 January 1953. She was buried in the Elmwood Cemetery.

Sources:

“Pioneer nurse, former matron at Ninette dies,” Winnipeg Free Press, 13 January 1953, page 24.

Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 14 January 1953, page 42.

Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 14 March 2022

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