Biography & Autobiography Medical
Eunice Dyke
Health Care Pioneer
- Publisher
- Dundurn Press
- Initial publish date
- Aug 1996
- Category
- Medical, General, General
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780919670679
- Publish Date
- Aug 1996
- List Price
- $30.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781459714649
- Publish Date
- Aug 1996
- List Price
- $7.99
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Description
From Pioneer Public Health Nurse to Advocate for the Aged: Eunice Henrietta Dyke. A dynamic personality whose determination improved public health care and nurses’ education, and began the recognition of senior citizens’ needs; yet she was fired at the height of her nursing career. A woman described as "ahead of her time."
About the author
Marion Victoria Royce's O.C., 1971, her D.C.L. from Acadia University, 1975, and Governor General's Award, "Persons Case", 1979 (50th anniversary) were dserved rewards for her decades of service as teacher, adminstrator, and author. After the English and History classrooms of Moulton College, she worked for the World YWCA for 10 years, travelling to 24 countries from their headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1954, she became the founding Director of the Women's Bureau in the Department of Labour in Ottawa. In her semi-retirement years to 1982, she was a part-time researcher at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Edcuation, writing many articles on the education of women.