Future Nurses
![Black and white photograph of 11 women dressed in nurse’s uniforms. They are seated at desks in a classroom, reading textbooks.](https://www.communitystories.ca/v2/laval-economie-diversifiee_economic-diversification/wp-content/uploads/sites/99/2019/09/P024_B1_16_035.jpg)
A class at the École des Gardes-malades auxiliaires nursing school at Sainte-Rose Hospital, circa 1965
Reference: Société d’histoire et de généalogie de l’Île Jésus, P024/B1, 16.035
Women have long worked in so-called traditional occupations. Cécile L. Dagenais founded and ran the Sainte-Rose General Hospital in 1957. In 1962, she founded and ran the École des Gardes-malades auxiliaires, a nursing school at the hospital.