Laura Attrux

Laura Margaret Attrux was a Canadian nurse, born on 28 June 1909 in Duck Lake, Saskatchewan, who spent forty-six years in nursing. Thirty-five of those years were as a public health nurse employed by the Alberta government in northern Alberta, where she worked mostly alone as a district or municipal nurse in remote communities including Valleyview, Whitecourt, Smith, Slave Lake, Wabasca, Swan Hills, Paddle Prairie, High Level and Rainbow Lake. In 1967, at the age of fifty-eight, she took flying lessons and bought a Cessna 150 airplane. Over her career she delivered 1,031 babies. The University of Alberta awarded her an honorary Doctor of Laws degree on 19 June 1970. The available source gives no date of death, so this entry records only her birth year.