Katherine Maud Macdonald

Rank:

Nursing Sister

Unit at enlistment:

Canadian Army Medical Corps, 3rd Stationary Hospital

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Date of death:

May 19th, 1918

Cemetery:

Etaples Military Cemetery - Pas de Calais, France - XXVIII.L.8.

Commemorated at:

Grace Anglican Church, B.C.I. High School Memorial Plaque, Victoria Hospital Memorial Plaque (London)

Birth country:

Canada

Birth county:

Brant

Birth city:

Brantford, Ontario

Address at enlistment:

165 Market Street, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

165 Market Street, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Nurse

Religious denominations:

Church of England

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

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Letters and documents

Circumstances of Casualty: She was killed during a raid made by hostile aircraft on No. 1 General Hospital, Etaples, on the night of May 19th, 1918.

BX May 23, 1918

German Frightfulness Again Vented on Wounded Soldiers and Their Attendants – Teuton Flyers Did Not See Red Cross Sign, but Say its Hospitals are Near Railways British Must Expect to Get Them Bombed

A Brantford nurse, Nursing Sister Katherine Maud Macdonald, whose mother and sister, Miss Florence Macdonald, chief operator of the Bell Telephone Company here, was among the nursing sisters who were victims of the Hun “frightfulness” raid on British hospitals behind the lines on Sunday last, when hundreds of wounded soldiers and members of the hospital personnel’s were casualties. Official word was received by Mrs. M.M. Macdonald, the mother, this morning from the Director of Record, Ottawa, and the message being:

Mrs. M.M. Macdonald, 165 Market Street, Brantford. – Deeply regret to inform you Nursing Sister Katherine Maud Macdonald, Medical Services, officially reported killed in action May 19, 1918 – Director of Records.

In view of the fact that the great German raid on British hospitals took place on Sunday, May 19, as officially reported today, there is little doubt that she was one of the victims of the Hun devilishness. The office is a flagrant one, being in defiance of all moral and international law.

Miss Macdonald was a graduate of Victoria Hospital, London. She nursed privately here for some time, and then went to the London Military Hospital, where she served for some time. A year ago last Easter she went to England, and after military nursing there, was sent to France in the spring of this year.

BC May 23, 1918

Nursing Sister Killed in Action

Mrs. Macdonald, 165 Market Street, this morning received the sad news that her daughter Nursing Sister Katherine M. Macdonald was killed in action on May 19.

Miss Macdonald, who had been at the front for some time is the first Brantford nurse to make the supreme sacrifice, and her parents and friends will have the sympathy of the entire community in the loss of a noble specimen of Canadian womanhood, and an innocent victim of Hun kultur. It is believed that Miss Macdonald lost her life in the bombing of British hospitals reported from the western front today.

BC May 24, 1918

Editorial

Her Life for the Cause

Brantfordites have had the wanton ruthlessness of the Hun still further brought home to them by the killing in France of nursing sister Katherine M. Macdonald of this city. She left for the front last year on her errand of mercy for the alleviation of the suffering, of the maimed and the dying, her ministrations undoubtedly teaching many of the Teuton breed.

She has fallen on the field of battle, on behalf of the cause of human liberty, just as surely as those who have given their lives on the firing line, and her name will rank with the other heroines who have demonstrated their loyalty and self-sacrifice in the time of stress.

From the time of Florence Nightingale until the present there has been a glorious galaxy of them, whose names are written high on the imperishable scroll of honour. Her fate has proved one more illustration of the instantiate deviltry of the Hun, who finds just as much delight in slaying those engaged in deeds of mercy as in the destruction of women and children by air raids and the submarine. The bereaved family has at least the consolation of knowing that she received the summons home at a time when she was doing what she could do.

BC May 25, 1918

Killed in Action – Nurse Gives Her Life

As recorded in the Courier Thursday, Nursing Sister Katharine Maud Macdonald was killed on May 19, Sunday last. Word to this effect has been received by her mother, Mrs. M.M. Macdonald, 165 Market Street. Miss Macdonald is the first Brantford nurse to make the supreme sacrifice.

Born and educated here, Miss Macdonald was a graduate nurse of Victoria Hospital, London, and early in the war became attached to the military barracks hospital staff there. She went overseas at Easter of 1917 and crossed to the front in January of this year, becoming attached to No. 1 Canadian General Hospital. It is believed that she met her death in a German air attack on the hospital made in direct contravention of international and moral-law. Miss Macdonald was a member of Grace Church, and leaves her mother and one sister, Miss Florence E. Macdonald in addition to a host of friends, who will long cherish the memory of one who gave her life in a labor of love and mercy.

BX June 14, 1918

A Tribute to Brant Nurses – Sarnia Observer’s Panegyric on Martyrs for Freedom

The Sarnia Canadian Observer of recent issue pays a fitting tribute to the death in action of Canadian nurses, and refers particularly in its editorial panegyric to Dorothy Mary Yarwood Baldwin and Katherine Maud Macdonald of Brant as follows:

In their untimely passing at the hand of the Hun their relatives and those who knew them best, will sorrow, and within will doubtless long remain a feeling which tongue cannot express. It is only natural that they should sorrow. They would be criticized if they did not sorrow. But even though the hearts of those at home be sad and torn, the sorrow should not be too deep nor last too long, because if ever in glory and at the post of duty women died, surely this is true of Dorothy Mary Yarwood Baldwin and Katherine Maud Macdonald.

Katherine Maud Macdonald and Dorothy Mary Yarwood Baldwin have died martyrs in the cause of right, righteousness and humanity. No more will they be seen in Brant, in Paris, or in Brantford, but their memory will live down through all the ages, and generations yet unborn will on “mother’s knee” be told the story of the sacrifice of the girls from Brant.

BX March 27, 1917

A London despatch says: Three more nurses for service overseas, either in England or France, left the city last evening. They were accompanied to the Grand Trunk depot by a number of the officers of the headquarters staff and by the pipe band of the A.M.C. The nurses are all graduates of Victoria hospital, of about a year’s standing, and have served for the last three months in the Military hospital at Carling’s Heights. The names of the party are Miss Nellie Foreman, formerly of Lucan, who already has a sister at the front, and who is a sister of Rev. C.W. Foreman, assistant rector of St. Paul’s cathedral; Miss Katherine Macdonald, formerly of Brantford, and Miss Eva Boyden of London.

BX April 1, 1919

Monument For Canadian Nurses

The first Canadian nurse killed by the enemy in France was a young woman from Brantford. Her mother and sister still reside in our city forming one of the most respected families in the neighborhood. Her heroism in attending the wounded and dying and her tragic death received royal recognition. We submit that a national monument to Nurse Katherine Maud Macdonald should be erected in Brantford. Appeals for subscriptions could be made in all parts of the Dominion, and that there would be a liberal response from sympathetic people there is no doubt. We would recommend that your committee be given power to take necessary proceedings for the erection of such a memorial.

BX December 30, 1920

Memorial Tablet to Heroic Nurses

In Victoria Hospital, London, on Wednesday a tablet bearing the names of four heroic nurses, graduates of the hospital who gave their lives overseas was unveiled. The nurses were Lieut. Henrietta Mellett, Lieut. Agnes McDougall, Lieut. Dorothy Mary Yarwood Baldwin and Lieut. Katharine Maud Macdonald. Miss Macdonald went from Brantford and both she and Miss Baldwin, who was from Paris, were victims of Hun raids on the hospital at Etaples in May 1918. Two overseas commanders were present at the ceremony, Colonel Reason and Colonel Seaborn, the latter being in command at No. 10 hospital, to which Miss Macdonald was first attached. Miss Stanley, the superintendent of Victoria hospital, unveiled the tablet. Mrs. Macdonald and Mrs. J.A. Phillips were present from Brantford at the impressive ceremony.

BX May 7, 1921

Tribute to Be Put on Shrine – In Memory of Brantford’s Patriotic Nurse, Sister Maude Macdonald

When the executive of the Municipal Chapter, I.O.D.E., met this week they worded a steamer letter and sent it to the “Minnedosa” by which Mrs. MacDonald and Mrs. A.J. Phillips sailed for Europe in which a cheque was enclosed from the Municipal Chapter that a tribute might be placed on the grave of Nursing Sister Maud Macdonald when they visit it in France. The letter read:

“Learning of your intended visit overseas, the Brantford Municipal Chapter desires to wish you a pleasant voyage and a safe return. They also wish that when you reach the shrine to which your journey is directed, feeling that they stand beside you in a spirit you will place there a tribute in proud and loving memory of one who fulfilled all the brightest and noblest for which this Order stands. And though the resting place of Maude Macdonald, Brantford’s patriot nurse, be in a far distant land her memory will ever be deeply cherished in the hearts of her own home citizens.

“A monument that years will now face,

A speaking monument that will extol

A woman’s tenderness and truth and grace,

The strength and courage of a woman’s soul.”

BX November 18, 1922

The Maud Macdonald Chapter

The Maud Macdonald Chapter was named in memory of Nursing Sister Katherine Maud Macdonald of Brantford, who was killed during the Great War. The chapter therefore chose as its motto “Carry On,” and the members are endeavoring to carry on their work along the lines, in which she was most interested. They donated the greater part of their allotted quota of the National War Memorial.

Much appreciation has been expressed for their regular visiting’s and gifts to the soldiers at the Mountain Sanatorium. The kiddies at the Brant Sanatorium have come to regard the chapter in the same light as a Santa Claus. The chapter also helped furnish the staff residence. Treats have been taken to the Brantford General Hospital; help has been given to civic and foreign relief and interest actively taken in local and national educational work. Annual prizes have been presented to the entrance classes in the public schools on Empire Day and libraries have been sent to the West. On the whole, the chapter’s objective is to make the work profitable and interesting to its members. Money wherewith to carry on has been raised by serving at the Rotary luncheons, holding dances, putting on plays, talent shows and by working in cooperation with other organizations.

The officers of the Maud Macdonald Chapter are:

Mrs. W.G. Oxtaby, Honorary Regent
Mrs. J.A. Phillips, Honorary 1st Vice-Regent
Miss Madge Monahan, Regent
Miss B. Longstreet, 1st Vice-Regent
Miss Phyllis Buck, 2nd Vice-Regent
Miss Winifred Watts, Secretary
Miss L. Clement, Assistant Secretary
Miss Donna Thorburn, Treasurer
Miss Anna Coyle, Educational Secretary
Miss L. Logan, Echoes Secretary
Miss Hilda Livingston, Standard-Bearer

BX June 24, 1925

Duchess Unveils Memorial Window

Katherine Maude Macdonald’s Name Inscribed on Nurses’ Memorial

The Five Sisters window in York Minster, was unveiled at 3 o’clock today, June 24. This is the national memorial to all “Sisters of the Empire who laid down their lives in the Great War. The names of 43 Canadians are on the roll among them the names of Katherine Maude Macdonald, Brantford, and Dorothy Baldwin, Paris. The roll of honor which contains the names of all women, who died as a result of their services in the Great War (over 1,370), will be inscribed on an oak screen, adjacent to the window. One of the panels will contain the names of the members of the Canadian Nursing Sisters as supplied by the Canadian High Commissioner, with their badge emblazoned thereon.

BX June 25, 1925

In Memory of Heroic Nurses – Matron A.J. Hartley Takes Prominent Part in Service – Hundreds Attend

Matron A.J. Hartley of Christie Street Hospital, Toronto, a nursing sister of who Brantford is proud, took a prominent part in the memorial services in memory of nursing sisters, who gave their lives in the Great War, held yesterday at Convocation Hall, Toronto, where hundreds gathered.

Three o’clock was the hour appointed by the National War Memorial committee in England for the services, which were to be held simultaneously in the various parts of the Empire. Great Britain’s memorial to the 1,300 nurses who made the supreme sacrifice in the war, the newly restored “Five Sisters’ window in York Minster, was unveiled by the Duchess of York during an impressive service in that historic edifice.

Forty-Four From Canada

Forty-Four names adorn the oak screen which will hang beside the glorious window in York Minster in memory of the Canadian Army Nursing Service. During the service in Convocation Hall, Matron A.J. Hartley, R.R.C. read the names while the audience stood with bowed heads. Those from Canada who paid the supreme price were: Matrons, Jessie Brown Jaggard and Margaret Marjory Fraser, and Nursing Sisters, Miriam Eastman Baker, Dorothy Mary Yarwood Baldwin, Grace Errol Bolton, Christina Campbell, Ainslie St. Clair Dagg, Lena Aloa Davis, Carola Josephine Douglas, Alexina Dussault, Minnie Asenath Follette, Agnes Florien Forneri, Margaret Jane Fortescue, Minnie Katherine Gallaher, Sara Ellen Garbutt, Victoria Belle Hennan, Leona Mae Jenner, Ida Lillian Kealy, Jessie Nelson King, Margaret Lowe, Henrietta Mallet, M. Frances E. Munro, Katherine Maud Macdonald, Clare MacKenzie, Agnes Macpherson, Pearl McCullough, Jessie Mabel McDiarmid, Rebecca McIntosh, Evelyn Verral McKay, Mary Agnes McKenzie, Rena McLean, Eileen Powers Peel, Eden Lyal Pringle, Ada Janet Ross, Mae Belle Sampson, Gladys Irene Sare, Etta Sparks, Anna Irene Stamers, Jean Templeman, Addie Allen Tupper, Dorothy Pearson Twist, Gladys Maude Mary Wake, Anna Elizabeth Whitely, (Mrs.) Alice Armstrong Wood.

Their Glorious Sacrifice

Canon W.C. Healey, who gave the inspiring memorial address, paid high tribute to the women who played their part in the hospital, the home, the factory, the field and many other places. “But there was no service,” he said, “that was finer than that of our nursing sisters, and, I would add, of our Canadian nursing sisters.

“War is waste, but the work of the nursing sister is never waste “it is always reconstructive,” declared the speaker, who graphically pictured scenes in the overseas hospitals when the sisters carried out the weary routine of sickness and death with tender skill and heroic calm in face of direct danger.

“Was it worth while? Was it worth the sacrifice of our best?” queried the speaker, “The answer to that is, it is for us to make it worthwhile by the sacrifice of our best; there is no other way.”

An impressive silence of two minutes was observed; then the organ pealed forth the strains of the sacred hymn, “O God, Our Help in Ages Past.” Rev. N.A. McEachern offered prayer, and the audience repeated the Twenty-third Psalm in unison. Rev. J.B. Grimshaw read the Scripture lesson, and the closing prayer and benediction was pronounced by Captain McElhinney of the Salvation Army. Dr. F.A. Moure, who presided at the organ, brought the solemn service to a close with the Dead March in Saul, during the playing of which the audience remained standing.

BX June 26, 1925

Brantford and Paris Nurses – Remembered by Special Memorial Service in London

Tribute was paid yesterday by Victoria Hospital, London, Ontario, to its graduates who paid the supreme sacrifice in the Great War. The little ceremony was very brief, yet very impressive and under the tablet Miss Hilda Stewart, who served in Egypt hung a beautiful wreath in memory of Lieut. Agnes McDougall, London; Lieut. Katherine Maud Macdonald, Brantford; Lieut. Dorothy Mary Yarwood Baldwin, Paris and Lieut. Maude Hanna Wingham, who died in Christie hospital, Toronto, after the tablet had been erected. They are all graduates of Victoria hospital.

BX May 23, 1933

Not beneath the blue of a naval coat nor the decoration of a khaki tunic beat always the bravest hearts. Courage animates the mould of beauty, inspires the tender breast of youth and dwells concealed beneath a simple gown of calico. Courageous deeds of Canadian women shine like beacons in the history of the Dominion.

With the memory of the hundreds of valiant soldier spirits, who today are in the minds of residents of the County of Brant, is fused the memory of two gentle, sweet-faced Canadian Nursing Sisters; Maude Macdonald, Brantford, and Dorothy Baldwin, Paris. Both lost their lives in bombing raids.

Nursing Sister Katherine Maude Macdonald, daughter of Mrs. M. Macdonald of this city was the first Canadian Nursing Sister to be killed in action. She spent her childhood days in Brantford and was a graduate of Victoria Hospital, London, Ont. She volunteered as soon as she had completed her course, and saw service in England and France. In a bombing raid on the First Canadian General Hospital at Etaples, France she was killed.

It was this month of the year, Sunday, May 19, 1918, when budding nature was full of beauty and promise that her sister nurses lined her last resting place with fragrant flowers of spring. Slowly her funeral wound from the hospital to the little cemetery at Etaples, where the last sad rites were reverently read and the challenging notes of the Last Post sounded over her grave – the grave of a Canadian heroine, whose memory today lingers sweetly in the hearts of friends, whom she called legion.

Dorothy Baldwin

Sister Dorothy Baldwin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R.W.Y. Baldwin, Paris and great granddaughter of Hon. Robert Baldwin, spent her early days in Paris.

She too saw service in England and France. It was also in the month of May that she was killed in action at Doullens, France, during the bombing of the hospital. With military honors she too was laid to rest in the distant land of France, where she had given her life for King and Country.

And so, today, the memory of these two brave Canadian nurses, who paid the supreme sacrifice will be recalled with affection and pride by the residents of Brant County and their names will forever be enrolled on the scroll of Canadian history.

BX June 7, 1939

(Extract)

Spontaneous Tribute to Instantly Popular Royal Visitors Today

Citizens Presented

In quick succession the citizens to be presented to Their Majesties were introduced by His Worship the Mayor and in addition to the scheduled list there came Mrs. Mary M. Macdonald who in her wheelchair had watched the proceedings from the foot of the stairway fronting the crowd. Fire Chief Gordon Huff was on hand to assist lifting the chair up the steps. With the aged lady the Queen in particular chatted. It was a proud and happy few moments for Mrs. Macdonald.

BX June 7, 1939

(Extract)

Brantford Women Gave Hearty Welcome to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth

Mrs. Mary Macdonald, 83 year-old mother of Katherine Maud Macdonald, the first Canadian nursing sister who was killed in action in the Great War, was carried in a wheelchair and presented to the Royal Couple.

“How are you feeling?” asked the Queen

“Fine, Your Majesty,” replied Mrs. Macdonald, “but my hands are badly crippled with arthritis.”

“Can you knit?” asked the Queen.

“No, Madam,” replied Mrs. Macdonald.

BX December 29, 1939

Katherine Maude Macdonald, Canada’s First Nurse to Give Her Life in the Great War – Brantford’s Patriot Nurse Fulfilled the Florence Nightingale Vow, “Even Unto Death” – Sleeps in Etaples, France, in “The Garden of the Brave” – Her Memory Cherished by Brantford Citizens – Her Name Inscribed on York Minster Memorial and on Marble Panel in Hall of Fame, Parliament Buildings, Ottawa

By E.T. Raymond

When the blaze of the war trumpet, then strange to Canadian ears, sounded in 1914 over Canada’s green fields ripening to the gold of harvest proclaiming that Great Britain was at war with Germany, Canadian manhood mustered from hills, plains and valleys, and brave nurses rallied at the call of the Motherland.

Maude Macdonald, a bright-eyed Brantford girl, then a student nurse at Victoria Hospital, London, Ont., with some of her class-mates, begged eagerly to be allowed to go overseas at once. Permission however was not forthcoming until the prescribed course had been completed.

Graduation Day now took on a double significance but seemed so long in coming. Finally, however the eventful day arrived. Maude Macdonald, with other white-capped graduates, with upraised hand solemnly took the Florence Nightingale vow, pledging herself to whole-hearted service to whomever might be entrusted to her care and breathing a prayer for patience and understanding in the ministry of broken bodies. She received her diploma and the benediction of her Alma Mater.

Call Came

Her thoughts had been long with former graduates of Victoria Hospital serving in England, France and Salonika. As preliminary training, she was stationed in Wolseley Barracks, London, Ont., in November 1916. It was not until March that the long-looked-for call came. She made a hurried departure to her home in Brantford to bid a brave good-bye to her loved ones, who with pride and anxiety saw her go.

Undeterred by the knowledge that her course to England lay through mine-sown waters, where also lurked death-dealing enemy craft, she bravely set sail April 5 in the hospital ship “Essequibo.” Through treacherous fog and heavy seas, it safely made its way, docking at Liverpool, April 14.

Christmas in England

Maude Macdonald left at once for London and reported for duty April 16. She was sent to Eastbourne where No. 14 Canadian General Hospital was stationed, and where she spent her first Christmas in England. Later she was ordered to Basingstoke, where she awaited orders to proceed to France. On January 26 she sailed from Dover to Calais, where No. 10 Canadian Hospital was stationed. Here she remained until March, when she was sent to Le Treport.

Hand of Fate

Then by one of those strange unexplainable happenings of fate, Maude Macdonald was transferred by mistake for another nursing sister by the same name but of a different until, to the Canadian Hospital as Etaples, which was the chief hospital centre during the war. Here the wounded from every battlefield were brought.

Maude Macdonald moved quietly among soldiers, cots, as had Florence Nightingale, the veteran army nurse in the Crimean War, wiping the sweat of agony from drawn faces, calming shell-shocked sufferers and easing the torture of relentless pain. Maude Macdonald, sustained by serene and heroic courage, cheered home-sick hearts hungering for loved ones, though her own brave heart too, often longed for those she loved far across the sea. Nor was it only the exacting duties of the day which must be fulfilled but the dreaded airplane raids at night which must be endured.

The enemy disregarded the Red Cross as a sacred symbol of protection and rained down bombs on defenseless sufferers.

Though menaced by the terror which flew by night, brave nurses looked after their patients as carefully as under any ordinary conditions. Many were under treatment which required special attention, some with limbs suspended, some with fractured bones under running water, and others whose position must frequently be changed. All received the same kindly attention. The nurses carried on with the stoicism of war veterans.

The new year had advanced into spring, the season of promise, when everything is freshest and loveliest. It was Whit Sunday evening, May 1918.

Duties Fulfilled

All exacting duties of the day have been faithfully fulfilled. Maude Macdonald and a companion had attended Divine Service and had partaken of Holy Communion. Returning home, they dropped into the room of another nursing sister, where they spoke of the Chaplain’s message. They had just separated for the night, when the crashing sound of bombs startled all in the hospital, there was no time to seek bomb-proof shelters. There was a deafening explosion and a bomb tore through the roof. It fell on the very spot where the nurses had stood but a moment before. Jagged splinters of shell flew in every direction. When the smoke had slightly cleared Maude Macdonald lay prostrate on the floor. Nurses rushed to her assistance. An artery had been severed by a flying shell. “Oh I am fainting,” she murmured. But it was too late to move her. Heroically she yielded up her young life as valiantly as any soldier on the battlefield.

Full Military Honors

With full military honors she was borne to Etaples Cemetery, where white crosses “row on row” marked the last resting place of those who sleep in “the garden of the brave.” Upon her simple casket, like a soldiers’ sword and belt, rested her nurse’s hat and collar insignia of her service. Canadian and other V.A.D.’s and all officers and nursing sisters of the area paid tribute to the memory of Maude Macdonald, Canada’s first nursing sister, to be killed in action. Uniformed men and white-veiled nurses listened with bowed heads to the simple, impressive service which touched all hearts. Tears fell unashamed as they thought of her who had so fearlessly given her life in devotion to duty. She had faithfully fulfilled the Florence Nightingale vow taken on graduation day, in her distant homeland.

Her open grave lined by the loving hands of sister nurses with white and purple lilacs and pink peonies, exhaled the breath of spring. Upon it the bright sunshine lingered like a golden halo, in promise of the life to come.

Later when Mrs. Macdonald, mother of Maude Macdonald, and Mrs. J.A. Phillips, her sister, made pilgrimage to Maude Macdonald’s grave, they placed a tribute in token of remembrance sent from her birthplace from Brantford members of the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire, who sent the message:

“We wish that when you reach the shrine to which your journey is directed, feeling that we stand beside you in spirit, will place this wreath in proud and living memory of one who fulfilled the highest ideals for which this Order stands.”

And though the resting place of Maude Macdonald, Brantford’s patriot nurse be in a distant land, her memory will be clearly cherished in the hearts of her own citizens, where stands,

“A monument, which years will not efface,
“A speaking monument, that will extol,
“A woman’s tenderness and truth and grace,
“The strength and courage of a woman’s soul.”

War Memorials

Maude Macdonald’s name is inscribed upon the National War Memorial in England to the memory of all women of the British Empire who gave their lives in the Great War. This Five Sisters Memorial window was unveiled in York Minster by H.R.H. the Duchess of Connaught, June 1928.

More recently a beautiful panel to the memory of nursing sisters, who paid the supreme sacrifice, was placed by nursing sisters of Canada in the Parliament Buildings, Ottawa, where it was accorded the first place in the Hall of Fame.

Here Maude Macdonald’s name was also inscribed on the Memorial to Canadian Nursing Sisters, who paid the supreme sacrifice. Beautifully wrought in purest marble, the memorial is centered by the figure of Humanity holding in one hand the symbol of healing, while with the other she indicates the heroic courage and self-sacrificing loyalty of the Nurse throughout the ages. On the right, Canada’s earliest nurse, n the habit of a nun, stands within the palisades caring for a little Indian child strapped to its cradleboard. On the left, nursing sisters minister to a soldier of the Great War. It is an eloquent tribute to women who inspired by the spirit of humanity, have gently ministered to human suffering throughout three centuries of Canadian history.