(1897-17 Aug.1980), nurse, artist. (Christena Ferguson, sp. Christina also found) Parents: Gordon Ferguson and his wife Catherine Anna Bella Cameron. (see Mrs Catherine A.B. C. Ferguson). Born at Dunvegan, GC. In 1923 she got a nursing diploma from the Lady Stanley Institute Training School for Nurses, Ottawa. (Glengarry News 15 June 1923) She practised as a nurse in Los Angeles and Ottawa, and retired in 1961 to Dunvegan, where she lived in a small house near the Manse. She did oil painting, and worked in ceramics using local clay. Some of her paintings were hung in the Maxville Manor. Sketches by her are printed in the Glengarry Historical Society’s Third Annual Volume (1963-1964) and Fourth Annual Volume (1964-1965). She gave a collection of figurines with several oil paintings to the Laggan Public School shortly before her death, the subject of the collection being the lifestyles of pioneer and early GC. She as involved in founding the Glengarry Historical Society, and worked as curator in the early years of the Glengarry Pioneer Museum at Dunvegan. She was the sister of Mrs Elizabeth Blair and of Edith and Martin Ferguson.

Campbell (1990) 102-108 * “Arts and Crafts Revival Is Noted in Glengarry,” clipping (no date) from Standard Freeholder * Velma S. Franklin, “Craftsmen in the Old Time Tradition” (illust.), Glengarry Life 1985 * Glengarry News 10 May 1978, Laggan Public School collection (fine illustrations)