Élodie Mailloux (9 February 1865 – 27 December 1937) was the founding director of the first nursing school in Canada to offer instruction to lay people in the French language.
The École des Hospitalières et Gardes-Malades de l'Hôpital Notre-Dame, was founded in 1897.
On completion of her studies there at the Couvent Jésus-Marie, she became a novice in the Sisters of Charity of the Hôpital Général of Montreal, Quebec, after which she took her vows in 1887.
Subsequently, she organized the first French-language nursing school in Canada in 1897, at the École des Hospitalières et Gardes-Malades de l'Hôpital Notre-Dame.
[1] In 2009, the Mailloux Pavilion at Notre-Dame Hospital was commemorated as a site of Canadian historical significance.