Elizabeth McMaster

Elizabeth McMaster

Elizabeth McMaster (born 1847 -died March 3 1903) was a Canadian humanitarian and head of the committee which founded the Hospital for Sick Children.cite journal | author = Young J | title = A divine mission: Elizabeth McMaster and the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, 1875-92. | journal = Can Bull Med Hist | volume = 11 | issue = 1 | pages = 71–90 | year = 1994 | pmid = 11639375 [http://www.cbmh.ca/archive/00000298/01/cbmhbchm_v11n1young.pdf Full Text] .]

She was born in Toronto and married Samuel Fenton McMaster who was a nephew of William McMaster, a Senator and the namesake of McMaster University. In her forties, she trained to become a nurse in Chicago.

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* [http://www.sickkids.ca/abouthsc/custom/mcmaster.asp Elizabeth McMaster biography] - sickkids.ca.


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