Pearl Sharpe at the Ontario Hospital, c.1927
Description
- Creator
- Unknown, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- A black and white photograph of Miss R. Pearl Sharpe standing in front of the nurses' residence at the Ontario Hospital Whitby, in winter. Snow is on the ground.
- Notes
- Miss. R. Pearl Sharpe was born at Wooler, Ontario on June 4, 1904 and came to the Ontario hospital at Whitby as a nurse in training in 1924. She graduated from the Ontario Hospital School of Nursing in 1927 and became a member of the school of nursing staff, rising to instructor, head nurse and Superintendent of the Nursing School in 1936. She was transferred to the Ontario Hospital at Cobourg as Superintendent of Nursing in 1949, retiring in 1955. Reta Pearl Sharpe died at Trenton, Ontario, on March 11, 2001, at the age of 96 and is buried in Stockdale Cemetery.
- Date of Original
- c.1927
- Dimensions
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Width: 10 cm
Height: 12 cm
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 10cm
Image Height: 12cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- 13-001-318
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.853888 Longitude: -78.936111
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- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian copyright law. No restrictions on use.
- Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from a copy negative.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
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