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Accession # |
1987.34.1 |
Item Name |
Pin, Lapel |
Description |
Circular, flat, silver, lapel pin with white, red and blue enamelled design. Depicts a red cross above a banner that reads "Caritas '10". Blue capital lettering around the outer border reads "Royal Alexandra Hospital / Fergus Ont. Engraved in script on the rear is the name of the recipient " Ada F. Lynes". Straight pin and clasp closure on rear. Presumably a graduation pin. |
Date |
1910 |
Provenance |
Belonged to nurse Frances Roseada Lynes Ganley who practiced nursing from 1910 - 1960. She was born in Kenilworth, Ontario March 21, 1887. She was one of twelve children born of Lena Podesta Lynes and James Lynes, the village blacksmith and carriage builder. She graduated as a nurse from the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Fergus in 1910 and took up private duty nursing for four years immediately in her hometown area of Harriston, Arthur and Fergus. Many of her cases were 24-hour duty out in the country, nursing diptheria or typhoid patients for several weeks or a month. Ada Lynes, as she was then known, had trained under Dr. Abraham Groves, a medical pioneer, and she assisted him sometimes in the operations he performed out in the country, on kitchen tables by giving the anaesthetics. Then she would stay with the patient until recovery. When she moved to Detroit, Michigan, she became the director of nursing at the Elbert Memorial Hospital in Wyandotte, Michigan for three years. She married W.E. Ganley in 1918 and when her husband died the following year and left her a widow with a young baby, she returned to Ontario. In 1921 she moved to Welland, Ontario, where she nursed at the Colbeck Clinic for nine years. Following this, she became a private duty nurse at the Welland County General Hospital and in the surrounding area, until she retired in 1960 after fifty years of nursing. She became very well-known and respected by her many patients and friends and enjoyed a happy, healthy old age, living until 1981. She died at the age of 94 at the home of her daughter, Frances Ganley Jacobs, in Welland. Ada Lynes Ganley had many interesting stories to tell about her early nursing days and it is unfortunate that she did not record them. She was a very good nurse and she loved nursing. To her, it was her life and duty to help others. |
Person \ Organization |
Royal Alexandra Hospital Lynes, Ada |
Place |
Fergus Arthur Harriston |