Always Pack a Candle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Always Pack a Candle write by Marion McKinnon Crook. This book was released on 2021-05-11. Always Pack a Candle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The true story of an adventurous young nurse who provided much-needed health care to the rural communities of the Cariboo-Chilcotin in the 1960s. In 1963, newly minted public health nurse Marion McKinnon arrived in the small community of Williams Lake in BC's Cariboo region. Armed with more confidence than experience, she got into her government-issued Chevy—packed with immunization supplies, baby scales, and emergency drugs—and headed out into her 9,300-square-kilometre territory, inhabited by ranchers; mill workers; and many vulnerable men, women, and children who were at risk of falling through the cracks of Canada's social welfare system. At twenty-two, a naïve yet enthusiastic Marion relied entirely on her academic knowledge and her common sense. She doled out birth control and parenting advice to women who had far more life experience than she. She routinely dealt with condescending doctors and dismissive or openly belligerent patients. She immunized school children en masse and made home visits to impoverished communities. She drove out into the vast countryside in freezing temperatures, with only a candle, antifreeze, chains, and chocolate bars as emergency equipment. In one year, Marion received a rigorous education in the field. She helped countless people, made many mistakes, learned to recognize systemic injustice, and even managed to get into a couple of romantic entanglements. Always Pack a Candle is an unforgettable and eye-opening memoir of one frontline worker's courage, humility, and compassion.
Always On Call
Always On Call - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Always On Call write by Marion McKinnon Crook. This book was released on 2024-07-22. Always On Call available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the long-awaited sequel to Always Pack a Candle, intrepid public health nurse Marion Crook juggles marriage, children, and a vast array of patients and cases in rural British Columbia in the 1970s. It has been over a decade since Marion Crook arrived in the Cariboo for her first job out of nursing school. The vast rural territory that once left her awestruck now feels like home, as she embraces life on the ranch with her husband, Carl, three young children, and numerous farm animals. But things are far from idyllic. Overseeing a small staff of irrepressible nurses serving a public health district the size of a small country brings new challenges every day. From runaway patients and needle-phobic hockey players to cultural misunderstandings and heartbreaking cases of abuse and neglect, Marion never knows what is coming next. The 1970s bring signs of social progress as women gain more autonomy and the region grows more culturally diverse. Yet, old prejudices persist, and Marion must fight for her patients, as well as for her adopted son. Recounted with warmth, compassion, and riveting detail, Always On Call is a fascinating portrait of the hectic life of a rural nurse and highlights the importance of the helping professions.
Don't Count the Candles
Don't Count the Candles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Don't Count the Candles write by Joan Rivers. This book was released on 1999. Don't Count the Candles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With characteristic spunk, humor and style, Joan Rivers reveals how to deal with "the lousy, crummy, disgusting, nauseating fact that sooner or later we all get older."
Infinity Candle Mind & Spirit Where Spirituality & Senses Meet
Infinity Candle Mind & Spirit Where Spirituality & Senses Meet - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Infinity Candle Mind & Spirit Where Spirituality & Senses Meet write by Melissa Davidson. This book was released on 2019-07-22. Infinity Candle Mind & Spirit Where Spirituality & Senses Meet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Infinity is a Spiritual product line developed by Author Melissa Davidson. She is a Clairvoyant, Angelic Medium and is also a Spiritual Healer. She works on the Physical Pain Healing with her products. "I'm not a Miracle Worker, but I work with the Divine, and I have a very special Archangel, and many Divine Healers that love to help me, help you." If you have blockages from past traumas, low energies, low confidence, and need help on your path, Infinity products are simply made to help you. Sessions with Melissa will benefit your daily path to be on your intended journey. This is a short product descriptive booklet about Infinity's history.
From Denmark to the Cariboo
From Denmark to the Cariboo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Denmark to the Cariboo write by Linda Peterat. This book was released on 2022-11-02. From Denmark to the Cariboo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A captivating account of the lives of Laura, Christine, and Caroline Lindhard, three sisters who left their home in Stege, Denmark, in 1870 due to war, political turmoil, and limited opportunities, and sought out new lives in the Cariboo region of British Columbia. There are few stories of entrepreneurial, business class women in nineteenth century BC. They didn’t keep diaries or save letters like the ruling class women often did, and they were usually overlooked in newspaper reports. Yet many came into British Columbia in the early years of the gold rush and helped build and sustain the developing communities. This book tells the stories of three sisters—Laura, Christine, and Caroline Lindhard—who arrived in BC from Denmark in the 1870s. Coming of age in Europe, the Lindhard sisters had aspirations that were restricted by societal norms about what women could and should be and do. This is a story of how each of the sisters made a life for themselves: marrying and having children, becoming single parents at an early age, marrying again or not, working together, providing for their children, and making choices that set them on different paths. While their lives diverged at various points, their commitments to each other and the next generation remained strong. The sisters’ stories illustrate the importance of family and community relationships as support structures for women entrepreneurs who combine family responsibilities with earning a living. While they were not heroic in the traditional, patriarchal sense of the word, the Lindhard sisters were powerful, influential members of their families and their community, and their lives reveal much about the complex social fabric of early British Columbia and the unsung contributions of women.
