The NMU - A Historic Overview

In 1942 the US Army selected Churchill, Manitoba as a stop on a planned air evacuation route from the European theatre of war.  This created the stage on which the NMU was built.

You can View the Timeline below in different ways:  Timeline (use the slider on the left to zoom in and out), Flipbook, and List.  Click on the Titles of the items (eg: Churchill Health Conference) to read more about the event, to see any attached documents or photographs, and to add any comments.  You can expand any of the attached photographs or documents by clicking on them and they will open in a new larger window.

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Please feel free to make any comments on any particular event or contact us to add anything you think might be missing.


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NMU Baseball Team; late 1970's Photos from the 1977 Chuchill Health Conference Sue Lightford, Rosemary Brown, Dr. Pam Orr, Rankin Inlet; late 1990's
Dr. Bob Cronin and Chris Knott, St. Theresa Point, 1996 Dr. Bartlett, J. Irvine, and Dr. Cook, 1996 Red Sucker Lake Nursing Station Staff, 19??
Dr. Joe Dooley with wife, Yvette and their 3 children, Hodgson, Sept 1989 Drs. Lisa Lugtig and Mike Deegan digging snow blocks for an igloo at Winter Survival Workshop in Churchill, 1985 Dr. Kay Wotton, 1975
Dr. Gerard Huot and Nursing Station Staff, Little Grand Rapids Larry Star, Native Approachs to Health Conference, 1976. Dr. Sharon Macdonald, Island Lake, 1980.

2010 J.A. Hildes Northern Medical Unit, Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba