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Classmates Watch a Student Lab Technician Pour a Liquid into a Flask

A black and white photo of a woman in a lab coat pouring a clear liquid from one beaker to another. She is framed by two other women in the foreground.

Date: 1964.
Credit: The Miss Margaret Robins Archives of Women’s College Hospital, Photograph collection, L-00990. Photograph by John Reeves.

Women’s College Hospital was an early leader in training women as medical laboratory technicians. By the mid-1950s, it had the largest class of lab technicians in any Toronto hospital. They were all female.