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MCNEIL, MARY ANN (1882-1954)

MCNEIL, MARY ANN, Sister St Stanislaus of the Religious Hospitallers of St Joseph; teacher, nurse, and x-ray technician; b. Glace Bay, N.S., 19 Mar 1882, d/o Henry A. McNeil and Rebecca McDaniel; entered religious life, 1899; d. Chatham, 18 Oct 1954.

Mary Ann McNeil was one of many members of the Religious Hospitallers of St Joseph who continued their education and training throughout much of their lives. During the time she was a teacher at St Michael's Academy she finished the arts program which was offered through extension and correspondence by Queen's University (BA 1916). Later she qualified as a nurse and x-ray technician. While engaged in nursing work she took an interest in the subject of socialized medicine and was the author of an article, "Aspects of State Medicine in Canada," which was published in 1942 in Hospital Progress, the journal of the Catholic Hospital Association. She had been in religious life for fifty-five years at the time of her death in 1954, at age seventy-two.

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[b] census [d] Commercial World 21 Oct 1954 / Advocate 19 Oct 1916; Commercial World 21 May 1942; RHSJ data


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