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Gordon, Laura
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ca. 1872-1953
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Laura Jean Gordon was born ca. 1872 in Cascumpec, Prince Edward Island, to Archibald Gordon and Margaret Simpson. She graduated from the Worchester City Hospital Training School for Nurses in Worchester, Massachusetts, United States of America, in 1898. Laura served as a nurse in the Canadian Army Medical Core during World War I in France and England. Shortly after the war, Laura went to Manitoba to nurse and later joined her sister in Toronto where she worked at the Belmont Retirement Home. Laura retired to Cascumpec, PEI, where she lived the remainder of her life on the family farm. Laura Gordon died in 3 August 1953 and was buried in the Bloomfield United Church Cemetery.
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Created and entered into AtoM 24 February 2022.
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Acc5373; "Those Splendid Girls: The Heroic Service of Prince Edward Island Nurses in the Great War, 1914-1918" by Katherine Dewar (Charlottetown: Island Studies Press, 2014; p. 191); general genealogy sources.