1866-1958+Elizabeth+Scott+Matheson


 * //__Elizabeth Scott Matheson (Elizabeth Beckett Matheson)__//**
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-teacher, physician, pioneer, missionary -born in Burnbrae, Upper Canada (near Campbellford) -moved to Morris, Manitoba=1878 -took matriculation & teacher's training in Winnipeg -taught school in Cook's Creek=>1886 -1887 -volunteered @ Marchont home for orphan boys & girls (Belleville, Ontario) -Ellen Bilbrough -supervisor -saw potential in Matheson=>sponsored studies @ Women's Medical College (Kingston) for 1 year -returned to teaching @ Manitoba to pay for studying -trip to India as missionary=1881-1891=return b/c of malaria -maried John Richard Matheson=>moved to Onion Lake (remote Cree reserve) -Onion Lake -husband agreed to be Anglican missionary -built school (9 of their own children, adopted Aboriginal & Metis children, 80 other children) -began 2nd year @ Women's Medical College=1898 -return to Onion Lake as doctor-practised until 1903=applied to University of Manitoba Medical School for last year (refresher course) -graduate 2nd time=1904 -1908=husband built 3 storey log hospital for use=4 wards & operating room -practised until 1917=year after husband's death -moved to Winnipeg (1918)-joined Mary Crawford as assistant medical inspector -1948=received honorary medical degree from University of Toronto __//what?//__ //did this person do that affected and/or changed hsitory?// //might they have done different?// //might life be like if they hadn't done this?// __//where?//__ //specific name then and nowis this place in relation to places of significance today?// __//why?//__ //do we remember?// //is this important?// //how does it connect to things of today?// -became a woman doctor and worked in a generally unaccepting community (the Natives were reluctant to go to the hospital for treatments; she had to trek all the way out to their houses through countryside) -served as missionary/teacher/doctor in India and Onion Lake; served as teacher during early years -she might never have become a doctor/gone through all that schooling -she might not have contracted malaria=>never come back from India/never married who she did marry -Onion Lake =still a Cree reserve on the border between Saskatchewan & Alberta -50 km N of Lloydminster (Saskatchewan's & Alberta's border city); junction of Highway #17 & secondary Highway #797 -present time=divided into 2 sections=Makaoo & Seekaskootch -remember her b/c she did a lot of important work in the Cree reserve and overseas as missionary -important to the people who were under her care //**Links:**// [] [] Images: [] [] []
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