Begbie Hall National Historic Site

Home to generations of nurses

Built in 1926, Begbie Hall represents the recognition and development of nursing as a profession. This residence housed students of the Royal Jubilee Hospital's School of Nursing who cared for patients as part of their training. Its modern lecture rooms, laboratories and reference library supported the scientific education that was critical to their work. Here, as elsewhere in Canada, a place of their own helped nurses shape a professional role indispensable to health care within the hospital and in the community. Their success inspired women to assume new roles in society.