History of Manitoba Women in Health - Table of Contents

There are a number of women who have served as role models in the history of health care in Manitoba. This is a list of some of the women who have shown leadership and dedication in providing health care services or advancing the cause of women's health.

 

• Dr. Charlotte Whitehead Ross (1843-1916)
  Physician, pioneer
• Dr. Amelia Yeomans (1842-1913)
  Physician, political activist, and social reformer
• Dr. Elizabeth Beckett Matheson (1866-1958)
  Teacher, physician, pioneer, missionary
• Dr. Margaret Ellen Douglass (1878-1950)
  Physician, soldier
• Dr. Frances Gertrude McGill, (1877-1959)
  Forensic pathologist, criminologist, and teacher
• Dr. Elinor Frances Elizabeth Black (1905-1982)
  Physician, educator, and administrator
• Dr. Gerda Allison (1913-2006)
  Manitoba's first female psychiatrist
• Phyllis Jean McAlpine, PhD, F.C.C.C.G (1942-1998)
  Scientist, teacher and mentor
• The Grey Nuns: Sisters of Charity
• Margaret Scott (1855-1931)
  Founder of district nursing mission
• Anne G. Ross (1911-1998)
  Nurse, administrator, community activist
• Mary Speechly (1873-1968)
  Scholar, community activist, women's rights advocate
• Dr. Helen Glass (1917- )
  Nurse, educator, administrator, researcher
• Grace Easter (1955-1986)
  Ka Okamowi-Nepawit-Equa Nurse, community leader