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Sibella Annie Barrington
Sibella Annie Barrington (4 or 21 December 1867 – 9 or 17 December 1929) was a Canadian nurse. Born to a family of British settlers in Cape Breton in 1867, Barrington studied at the Aberdeen Hospital School of Nursing in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. She graduated in 1904 and became a registered nurse in 1922, when the province introduced registration. Barrington continued her studies internationally, first in Chicago, and then in Dublin where she learned of Lady Aberdeen's work in combatting tuberculosis. In London, she worked with the New Zealand physician and child welfare advocate, Frederic Truby King. She returned to Nova Scotia and by 1917 had a thriving private practice. The British Red Cross Society granted her a lifetime membership for her volunteer work following the 1917 Halifax Explosion. From 1918 to 1923 she served as superintendent of the Halifax Infants' Home. She served as vice-president of the Children's Aid Society, president of the Graduate Nurses' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Sibella Brown
Margaret Sibella Brown (March 2, 1866November 16, 1961) was a Canadian amateur bryologist specializing in mosses and liverworts native to Nova Scotia. Early in her career she was involved with gathering supplies of sphagnum moss to be used as surgical dressings during World War I, when cotton was in short supply. After the war, she researched mosses from around the world, collecting specimens in Europe, the Caribbean, and the United States, as well as her native Canada. She published several papers in academic journals, some on materials she had collected herself and some cataloging samples collected by other investigators. Samples she collected are now housed at several major herbaria in North America and Europe. Born into upper-class society, Brown was educated in Halifax, Stuttgart, and London. Although lacking formal scientific training, she has been recognized for her contributions to bryology and as an authority on the mosses and liverworts of Nova Scotia. At the age ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |