Alice Girard

Alice Girard (1907 – January 1, 1999) was an American-born Quebecoise nurse who was made a Chevalier of the National Order of Quebec for 1994.[1] She was a seventh child born in Connecticut to a family that originated in Quebec. They returned to Quebec when she was 11 and she decided to pursue a career rather than marriage, the two things being seen as somewhat mutually exclusive at that time. She rose to be the first French-speaking President of the Canadian Nurses Association and the first Canadian to head the International Council of Nurses.[2] She also taught and in 1962 she became the first woman to be dean at the University of Montreal.[3]

Girard in the 1940s

Honours
  • Honorary degrees from universities of Toronto (1968) and Montreal (1975).
  • Centennial Medal and the Florence Nightingale Medal
  • Commander of the Order of St. John (1977)
  • Dame Commander of the Order of Saint Lazarus (1980)
  • Member of the Club of the Rector of the University of Montreal (1992)
  • Officer of the Order of Canada (1995)
  • Knight of the National Order of Quebec[3]

References
  1. Ordre national du Québec page on Alice Girard
  2. Christina Bates; Dianne Dodd; Nicole Rousseau (30 April 2005). On All Frontiers: Four Centuries of Canadian Nursing. University of Ottawa Press. pp. 209–210. ISBN 978-0-7766-1667-4.
  3. Alice Girard (1907-1999) Infirmière, professeure, Usherbrooke.ca, Retrieved 10 September 2016
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