Jean Rix , Parl Clunes, Aldith Farrar-Karram, Joan Cooke, and Catherine Dean.
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Title
Jean Rix , Parl Clunes, Aldith Farrar-Karram, Joan Cooke, and Catherine Dean.
Description
Jean Rix, Pearl Clunes, Aldith Farrar-Karram, Joan Cooke, and Catherine Dean are all nurses from the West Indies that studied at the St. Michael's Hospital in the 1950s. Jean Rix became the second Black nursing student to graduate St. Michael's School of Nursing, which happened in 1950. While, Ivy De Leon graduated in 1927, becoming the school's first ever nursing student of African descent. After the first student's admission, the school did not accept Black women for 23 years, another example of discrimination in education. These women came from Jamaica, Trinidad, and the Bahamas providing evidence of diverse experiences of immigrant women becoming nurses in Canada.
Creator
St. Michael's School of Nursing
Source
Unity Health. “A Century of Black Nursing Professionals at Unity Health.” YouTube video, 2:26-3:11. Accessed November 25, 2025. https://youtu.be/XNLAvSGR0Yg?si=W6UN8rxQexWbUmEh
Publisher
Unity Health Toronto
Date
1950s
Rights
Unity Health Toronto
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Citation
St. Michael's School of Nursing, “Jean Rix , Parl Clunes, Aldith Farrar-Karram, Joan Cooke, and Catherine Dean.,” Black Canadian History Exhibit, accessed December 5, 2025, http://omeka.uottawa.ca/mathieu-black-canadian-history-exhibit/items/show/456.