Colonel Elizabeth Smellie, CBE (Papers and Records, 1975)
Colonel Elizabeth Smellie, CBE is a short biographical article by Mary R. MacLean in Papers and Records, Volume III (1975), pages 16–18. It marks the unveiling on 20 June 1975 of an Ontario Heritage Foundation plaque near McKellar General Hospital for Elizabeth Smellie, the army nurse and public-health leader.[1]
What it covers
The article follows Smellie from her childhood in Port Arthur and Fort William through nursing training at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, First World War service in England, her years as chief superintendent of the Victorian Order of Nurses, her recall to the army in 1940 and her rank of colonel.[2]
Key Thunder Bay facts
- She was born on 22 March 1884 at the family home on Pearl Street near Court; her father was the pioneer doctor Thomas Smellie and her mother Janet Lawrie.[3]
- W. Russell Brown, honorary member of the museum society and a former Port Arthur councillor, pressed for the plaque and presented her with a silver coffee service at a civic reception in St. Paul's after the Second World War.[3]
- A portrait of her by Kenneth Forbes was unveiled in Ottawa in 1944.[4]
- She died on 5 March 1968 and is buried in Riverside Cemetery, Thunder Bay.[4]
References
- ↑ Mary R. MacLean, "Colonel Elizabeth Smellie, CBE", Papers and Records, vol. III (Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 1975), pp. 16–17. Archived: datum.locker.
- ↑ Mary R. MacLean, "Colonel Elizabeth Smellie, CBE", Papers and Records, vol. III (Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 1975), pp. 17–18. Archived: datum.locker.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Mary R. MacLean, "Colonel Elizabeth Smellie, CBE", Papers and Records, vol. III (Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 1975), p. 17. Archived: datum.locker.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Mary R. MacLean, "Colonel Elizabeth Smellie, CBE", Papers and Records, vol. III (Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 1975), p. 18. Archived: datum.locker.