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Future Nurses

Black and white photograph of 11 women dressed in nurse’s uniforms. They are seated at desks in a classroom, reading textbooks.

A class at the École des Gardes-malades auxiliaires nursing school at Sainte-Rose Hospital, circa 1965

Reference: Société d’histoire et de généalogie de l’Île Jésus, P024/B1, 16.035

Women have long worked in so-called traditional occupations. Cécile L. Dagenais founded and ran the Sainte-Rose General Hospital in 1957. In 1962, she founded and ran the École des Gardes-malades auxiliaires, a nursing school at the hospital.