Marion E. Moodie

Marion E. Moodie was a Canadian nurse and botanist born in 1867 in the province of Quebec. She later moved to the province of Alberta with her brother Frank Moodie. While in Alberta Marion studied to be a registered nurse and became the first nurse to graduate in Alberta and through the first general hospital of Calgary, graduating in 1898. She was an avid botanist and many of her findings can still be found in the New York botanical flower collection. Marion wrote numerous poems and three of her poetry books were published in the early twentieth century. Marion was head nurse at the Dover Hospital during the First World War and tended to many wounded soldiers returning from the front. Her uncle died at the battle of Ypres and she currently has a fund for young medical students in her name, in honour of her nephew who died in the Second World War. Marion E. Moodie passed in the year 1958. One of the notable ancestors of Marion E. Moodie is Col. Kenneth Angus Munn. A great nephew.