Interview with Marjorie Weir

Video length: 53 seconds

Transcript of video:

Marjorie Weir is sitting in a chair facing the camera.

Interviewer:  So what interested you in becoming a nurse in the first place?

Marjorie:  Well, I think it was probably my Mom.  Because when I was little, one of the men, when they had sawing bees, had cut his finger really bad.  And nobody kind of ran and he just said, “Oh, it’ll be alright.”

Black and white photograph of Marjorie (Patterson) Weir as a nurse in 1966. She is wearing a nursing uniform and is smiling.  

Marjorie: And I was the one that took the, I don’t know, what I … I ripped the tail off of somebody’s shirt or something but I wrapped a cloth around it and held it and stopped the bleeding and I was only, I think, 5 or 6.

Colour photograph of Marjorie (Patterson) Weir in 1967. She is wearing a nursing uniform and is smiling. She is standing beside a patient in a hospital bed.   

Marjorie: So my mom always thought, “Well, you did the right thing, so you must be going to be a nurse.”

Marjorie Weir is sitting in a chair facing the camera.

Marjorie: And she really encouraged me to be a nurse because back then, there wasn’t that many careers.  A lot of people were either teachers or nurses or secretaries. It wasn’t all, you know, women weren’t accepted in all the jobs that they are now.