Myra Bennett

Dubbed The Florence Nightingale of Newfoundland by the Evening Telegram, in tribute to her contribution to the people of the Great Northern Peninsula, she was also known simply as The Nurse.

Bennett (née Grimsley) worked as a tailor in London before training as a nurse at Woolwich during the first World War.

Myra quickly gained experience caring for the sick on the west coast of Newfoundland.

[2] Myra often made news headlines, often referred to as "Nurse Bennett of the Outports".

[2] Her work in Newfoundland encouraged the construction of new hospitals in Bonne Bay, Port Saunders and St.