Margaret C. MacDonald
Deceased Person
1873 – 1948
Who was Margaret C. MacDonald?
Major Margaret Clothilde MacDonald is a Canadian who, on April 11, 1914, was appointed Matron-in-Chief of the Canadian Nursing service band becoming the first woman in the British Empire to reach the rank of major during a nursing career of over thirty years. She served in the Spanish–American War. She was one of twelve Canadian women who served in the Second Boer War. She also served in World War I. She was awarded the Royal Red Cross and the Florence Nightingale Medal.
She graduated as a nurse from the New York City Hospital in 1895. After achieving her post-graduate, she went to Panama to serve for eighteen months during the building of the Panama Canal. There, she caught malaria and promptly returned after she recovered. In the Spanish–American War she served at Camp Wikoff. Camp Wikoff was used to quarantine 29,000 soldiers, including Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders at the conclusion of the Spanish–American War, to prevent the spread of yellow fever and other tropical diseases.
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- Born
- 1873
Bailey Brook, Nova Scotia - Also known as
- Margaret MacDonald
- Died
- 1948
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on July 23, 2013
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