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Laura Johnson Collection
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5.6 cm of textual records
3 photographs
3 pins
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Laura Johnson was born in 1896 to Henrik and Oddny Johnson. Lundar, Manitoba was named by her parents when they settled there in 1888 in honour of their hometown in Iceland.
Laura graduated from the Winnipeg General Hospital School of Nursing in 1926 and from the mid 1930s until 1959 worked for the Manitoba Department of Health as a Public Health Nurse. In 1932 she was the Public Health Nurse in The Pas, Manitoba, nine years later she moved to Ontario, graduating in Public Health from the University of Toronto School of Nursing in 1942. By 1943 she was the Supervisor of Public Health Nurses in Manitoba. Her career took her all over Manitoba. She worked as a district nurse at Fisher Branch and Melita as well as other nursing stations and in 1947 returned to Iceland with her mother on an extended visit. Whilst there she explored public health nursing in that country. In 1957 she attended the 11th Quadrennial Congress of the International Council of Nurses in Rome. She retired from Public Health Nursing in 1959 due to ill health and moved to Calgary. In 1976 she married Alfred Henke. She died on June 1, 1977 at the age of 81.
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Collection was acquired by Freda Easy, the niece of Laura Johnson and donated to the HSC Archives/Museum in 2011.
Scope and content
Collection provides information on Laura Johnson in relation to her roles as a nursing student, both in Toronto and Winnipeg, and a public health nurse in Manitoba. Her records document her work, her research, her family history, and her travels in Iceland. The collection consists of pins, photographs, correspondence, notes, assignments, journals, and papers.
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Created on August 21, 2013.