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Joan D. Witney-Moore MDCM was born in 1919, in Saskatoon. She graduated from the first 'Degree Course' in nursing offered at the Saskatoon City Hospital in 1943. Joan began nursing in Saskatoon before being accepted into the R.C.A.M.C. As Second Lt. N/S in the Army Reserve until 1946, she was posted to military hospitals in Winnipeg and Brandon, Manitoba. After discharge she spent a year as Matron at the Norway House Indian Hospital, before being accepted into Medicine at Queen's University. Throughout her years in Kingston she returned to work summers as a public health nurse serving the northern First Nations communities surrounding her postings at Cumberland House, Buffalo Narrows, Stoney Rapids, and Moose Factory. Joan received her M.D.C.M. in 1953 and then interned at the Royal Alexander Hospital in Edmonton, before joining the staff of the Camsell Hospital, and then the Health Care Centre for Children (Vancouver General Hospital). In Edmonton she met her husband Charles and married in 1956. In 1959 they moved back to Saskatoon and she stopped practicing medicine to become a full-time mother. However she was drawn back into practice by the Medicare crisis in July 1962, when the majority of Saskatchewan's physicians withdrew their services in opposition to the CCF government's initiative to introduce the first universal, tax- financed, medical care insurance plan in North America. Joan joined Dr. Margaret Mahood in setting up the Saskatoon Community Health Clinic in Saskatoon. The family moved to the Vancouver area in 1966 [-excerpts from her published obituary].

Born: 1919
Died: 2013