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265 Nursing in other Countries 265 and pharmacy, and have a secular school, and St. Michael's in Toronto. The pioneer hospital of the far west is St. Boniface in Manitoba. There are several import- ant hospitals in the West, the largest being the Winnipeg General and the Vancouver General which are progressive and up-to-date institutions. The Western provinces, Manitoba, Saskatche- wan, and Alberta, have recently provided through legislation, for a much wider extension of hospital and public health work, throughout the widely scattered districts of this new country. This work will be supported by the provincial governments. Canada has a completely organized district nursing association in the Victorian Order, founded by Lady Aberdeen (1897). Its plan is visiting to cover the most distant provinces as nursing well as the cities, and to provide nursing care not only for the poor but for those of moderate means as well. Later, the Lady Minto Cottage Hospital Fund built cottage hospitals in remote places. Finally, by the Lady Grey's Country District Nursing scheme, provision was made for continuous nursing care in cases where this was needed. The lives of Victorian Order nurses may be wild and venture- some in the extreme, requiring all the qualities of