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- Object Number 2001-H0006.21B
- Place of Origin Continent - North America, Country - Canada, Province / Territory - Quebec, Municipality - Montréal, Township / District - Île-de-Montréal, County of
- Place of Use Continent - North America, Country - Canada, Province / Territory - Ontario, Municipality - Ottawa, Township / District - Ottawa-Carleton, County ofContinent - North America, Country - Canada, Province / Territory - Ontario, Municipality - Ottawa, Township / District - Ottawa-Carleton, County of
- Category Communication artifacts
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- Person / Institution Associated institution, Montreal General HospitalAssociated party, Kindle, Katharine
- Measurements Height 16.4 cm, Width 12.9 cm
- Related activity Nursing
- Caption Letter from Katharine Kindle, student nurse at Montreal General Hospital, December 1937
- Additional Information Dec Monday. Dear Mom, Received your lovely letter today, and particularly trilled over last line, in which you summed up a sunset at Briarcliffe. You know, I can't help it, but I still miss Briarcliffe terribly, and dream about it at nights. Whew! What a busy strenuous week we had last "semaine". You know we had two more of our final exams - Bandaging and Bacteriology Lab. (practical). In the Bact. Lab Exam we were required to prepare a Slide (The Gram Stain method) from an unknown culture media, and then identify it under the microscope + answer numerous questions which a couple of doctors "quizzed" us about. I got along alright in that - my two slides being Streptococci and the Diptheria Bacilli. In bandaging I put on one of the best slings, but nevertheless not such a good [spiea] of the foot! Then, only on Monday we started to get together our skit for the Griffin Town Programme (a mother's club of over 200 "not very well to do mothers" of Griffin Town, "on the other side of the tracks". Nobody had any ideas or anything so you see Marg Brown Anne Scott + I said we'd look after the skit. Well my ideas took to blooming and I incorporated our "Modernized Jingle Bells" into a Ford Car presentation which ended up with the song and its ultimate crash. 'Twas Anne's idea of a Ford car and I ended up with being the driver in which I rambled on in my French Canadian jargon taking my family for a ride in my [ford] car. We sat on 6 chairs, - 4 girls were the wheels, and another was the spare tire and still another was the engine. Well anyway it was a riot! The audience simply howled at me. I; as the French Can. father wore my slacks and green checked ski jacket. We carried on quite a dialogue all the way while the wheels kept churning up and down and incidentally two of the tires went flat (the girls just collapsed.) In the end we all tumbled over in a big crash! Also on the programme we had community singing and our two groups put on the dances which we learned in gym. We used to have to practice our skit at noon - so we were on the go all day from 7 A.M. till [nite]. Well but had a grand week-end after it all. Marg came to town Sat. morning at 10. and we spent the day together. Started with her shopping in the morning, took a walk up to R.V.C. (girl's residence at McGill) to see several of her old teaching staff there. Then had lunch at the "Coffee House" - a sweet little restaurant owned and run by several artists. There are samples of their paintings around the walls, and the artistic trimmings of the whole place lend an air of gay Bohemia to it. There again we sat and [discoussed] - Marg, once again portraying a round of wonderful events over the week-end with Dan. That evening, Marg with a girl friend of hers, Edith Lynch and I started off with dinner at the "Ritz Carleton Bar" and then went to the most marvelous dance recital. It was a lecture - recital of "the Modern Dance" by Weidman and Doris Humphry brought direct from New York by the McGill Phys. Educ. Dept. - most enjoyable. Wed. On Sunday finding all the probies too tired for a walk I upped and took myself on a gorgeous one on my afternoon off. (2 off). You see most of the part of the class off at the same hours as myself all preferred to "sleep" - as is done in most cases. But I yearned for a good walk. So I took myself down to the Harbour Bridge and over to St. Helen's Island. It was a beautiful walk - but quite a cold windy day. The island you know is just in the process of being made into a wonderful park. The old historic tower + fortresses have been restored too. The city forms a fine background. Today we had another final exam - in Hospital Economies - all about pests, rats, laundry, linen etc. - Love Katharine. (Kindle, Katharine. Letter to E. M. Kindle, December 1937. © Canadian Museum of Civilization, Canadian Nursing History Collection, 2001-H0006.21 B, H160)