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Mary Agnes Snively (12 November 1847 - 26 September 1933) was the first Ontario trained nurse according to the principles of Florence Nightingale. She took up the position of Lady Superintendent at Toronto General Hospital in 1884, reforming their new School of Nursing and helping to build it into the largest Nursing School in Canada by 1894.

She went on to become the president of the Society of Superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses of the United States and Canada, and led the successful effort to form the Canadian National Association of Trained Nurses in 1908, which would become the Canadian Nurses' Association in 1924.