Margaret Mainwaring celebrated her 100th birthday Saturday February 5, 2011. A celebration was held at the Mann Park Lawn Bowling Club in White Rock attended by family and many friends.
Margaret was born in Toronto and moved to Vancouver as a young child. She attended school in Cranbrook, BC and entered VGH in 1930 and her first residence was West House where she shared a five- person dormitroy, later moved to Ellis House and then to the “Old Home”. After graduation in 1933 she worked at VGH and shared a room in a boarding house near the hospital- had a gas plate and a box ouside the window for a refrigerator. At that time VGH paid the highest wages for graduate nurses in Candada – $54/month + board and laundry. In 1935, she moved to Port Alice as jobs were at a premium during the Depression of the 1930s.
