Myra Bennett

Myra Bennett, 1965

Myra Bennett , CM MBE (born Grimsley; born April 1, 1890 in London , † April 26, 1990 in Daniel's Harbor , Newfoundland , Canada ) was a Canadian nurse and midwife . She has been referred to as the Florence Nightingale Newfoundland .

During the First World War , she trained as a nurse in Woolwich , then attended the Chapham School of Midwifery and was also trained as a midwife . In 1921 she left England and went to Canada to work as a District Nurse in the Great Northern Peninsula area of Newfoundland. She settled in Daniel's Harbor and got married.

Bennett looked after the entire peninsula as a nurse and midwife, worked from her home with the help of her husband and three children and also treated patients there. For a period of 50 years she was completely on her own. In addition to childbirth and wound care along the 200 mile long coast, she also took on the splinting of broken bones and tooth extractions. Her exceptional achievements have earned her numerous honors and promoted the construction of new hospitals in Bonne Bay , Port Saunders and St. Anthony .

Awards

• 1935 - Georg V. Silver Jubilee Medal
• 1937 - George VI. Coronation Medal
• 1946 - Member of the Order of the British Empire
• 195? - Elizabeth II Coronation Medal
• 1967 - Honorary membership in the Association for Registered Nurses of Newfoundland
• 1974 - Member of the Order of Canada
• 1974 - Honorary Doctorate from Memorial University of Newfoundland

literature

• Nurse Myra Bennett House (Daniel's Harbor). In: Heritage Newfoundland and Labrador. Bennett's home is a Heritage Site in Newfoundland. Retrieved June 11, 2020
• Horst-Peter Wolff: Bedford-Fenwick Born Mason, Ethel. In: Horst-Peter Wolff (Ed.): Lexicon for care history. "Who was who in nursing history". Urban & Fischer, 1997, ISBN 3-86126-628-8 , p. 14.