Winnipeg General Hospital School of Nursing - Blue and White Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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BLUE AND WHITE CLASS 01 ' 1923 Dedication 8 This issue of the Blue and White is dedicated to the Nurses ■who follow after. Page Six

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BLUE AND WHITE CLASS OF 1923 jfoiT uorii 8 HfS little book, the first issue of the “Blue and White,” is offered as a part history, semi-serious, semi-comic, of the Class of 1923, and as such is most heartily commended to the smiles of fortune. It indicates a growing school spirit, which in itself commends it; it contains the memoirs of many happy days spent within the walls of the beloved Alma Mater; of friendships forged and strengthened by common bonds of shared duties, joys, fears, sorrows and even aspirations. That it may further strengthen these ties already formed, and that it may prove a source of inspiration to future generations of students is the sincere hope of everyone concerned with its publication. M. MARTIN. Page Five

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BLUE AND WHITE CLASS OF 1923 Jntrotiuctton 0 | HE history of the Winnipeg Genei’al Hospital dates back as far as the year 1871. At that time Winnipeg was but a little village with less than 300 inhabitants and the Province of Manitoba in its early infancy. The only means of communication with the great world outside, was the somewhat rickety old stage coach which journeyed between the little village and Minnesota, a distance of almost 400 miles. It was not until after the close of the first Riel Rebellion, when an influx of settlers arrived in the middle west, that the real need for a hospital was felt. On the 13th of November, 1872, the hospital was organized and in May, 1875, provincial letters of incorporation taken out. The first building occupied by the hospital was situated on the northwest corner of McDermot and Albert and two or three months later the hospital was moved to a house behind the Bank of Montreal. ji Five other different houses were in turn occupied by the hospital before a permanent site was obtained. This was a little plot of land about a mile west of the Red River, donated by the Hon. A. G. Bannatyne and Andrew McDermot, and on it the first building was built with space for sixteen public and four private beds, and a small operating room. After the beginning of the construction of the C.P.R. a large number of settlers began to arrive, and lack of accommodation forced the removal of the hospital to the larger space in the Dominion Immigration Hall, purchased at a cost of $5,000. On this property the first building of the present group was commenced in 1882, and formally opened in 1884. In 1888 a Nurses’ Home and Maternity Department were added, and an isolated hospital was built in 1892. Several other additions were made between this and 1917, when the present East and West Page Seven