====== Banfill, Bessie J. ====== 
 (died 13 Nov. 1975), nurse, author; a “near Glengarrian” rather than a Glengarrian. Born at Richmond, Que. Parents: Enos Leroy Banfill and his wife Sarah Augusta Healy. Bessie J. Banfill trained at the Sherbrooke Hospital as a nurse, and served as a nurse in the Grenfell Mission in Labrador, in an Indian residential school in B.C., and elsewhere. In 1945 she settled at Avonmore, Stormont Co. She wrote //Labrador Nurse// (1945), //Nurse of the Islands// (1965), //With the Indians in the Pacific// (1966) and //Pioneer Nurse// (1967).The books were very widely read, and her obituary states that //Labrador Nurse// was estimated to have sold over two million copies. She died at Hotel Dieu Hospital, Cornwall. She belonged to the United Church, for which she had done humanitarian work.


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<fs small>Detailed obituary with much biog. information //Glengarry News// 20 Nov. 1975 * Ian Bowering in Hometown Supplement //Standard Freeholder// 18 March 1995 * Marin 396 * Worrall 102-103
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