Nursing Sister Margaret Brooke

Photo captioned “Nursing Sister Brooke, a dietician at the Royal Canadian Naval Hospital, St. John’s, Newfoundland, 17 July 1943“

Nursing Sister Margaret M. Brooke was born in Ardath, Saskatchewan in 1915. She joined the Royal Canadian Navy in 1942, and served as a hospital dietician in World War II. She survived the sinking of S.S. Caribou and was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for her heroic attempt to save her friend and colleague Nursing Sister Agnes Wilkie. She retired from the Canadian Forces as a Lieutenant-Commander in 1962. She then obtained her Ph.D. in paleontology from the University of Saskatchewan, where she became a research associate. She passed away at 100 years of age in Victoria, BC in 2016.