Denison Cottage. (1912-15). The Rooms Provincial Archives, VA 115-41.1.

Denison Cottage, Forteau Nursing Station. The Rooms Provincial Archives, IGA 1-159.

Forteau Nursing Station. (1914-1915). The Rooms Provincial Archives, VA 93-160.

Mission house and garden, Forteau. June 1934. The Rooms Provincial Archives, VA 94-104.4.

Sun room, Forteau. 1923. The Rooms Provincial Archives, VA 104-43.1.

Sister Bailey in dispensary. Nurse Florence Bailey, standing in front of window, mixing medicine; shelf behind her lined with bottles. 1923. The Rooms Provincial Archives, VA 104-41.2.

Sister Florence Bailey carrying snowshoes. ca. 1915. The Rooms Provincial Archives VA 115-15.3.

Sister Florence Bailey freeing her snowed-in windows, Forteau. ca. 1915. The Rooms Provincial Archives VA 115-15.2.

Sister Bailey, Forteau. The Rooms Provincial Archives IGA 14-367.

Woman holding dress with display of craft items outside of building. (1930s). The Rooms Provincial Archives, VA 94-76.5.

Eight women at table making flowers with finished display. Nurse Bailey started teaching flower-making in 1916 and the craft is mentioned in Among the Deep Sea Fishers until 1923. The Rooms Provincial Archives, VA 94-34.5.

The Louie A. Hall nursing station at Forteau. Construction began in 1946. (1947). The Rooms Provincial Archives, IGA 24-395.

Louie A. Hall nursing station, Forteau. (1947-49). The Rooms Provincial Archives IGA 15-294.

Iris Mitchener (left) from Ilford, Essex was Nurse in Charge at Forteau from 1946-49. Anne Thompson (right) from Winchester, MA was a Community Worker at Forteau during the winter of 1948/49. CHE Collection, CHE-ID #1081.

E. Mary Taylor, an English nurse, came to Forteau in 1953 when she was 21 years old. She spent the next 30 years in charge of the Louis A. Hall Nursing Station until it closed in 1983. CHE Collection, CHE-ID #1167.

Jeanetta (Jean) Skelly, from Northern Ireland, came to Mary’s Harbour in 1964. In 1967 she transferred to Forteau where she worked with Mary Taylor until 1976. CHE Collection, CHE-ID #1166

Cornelia Linstead first worked at the Louie A. Hall nursing station in 1965 as a nurse’s aide. She later trained as a nurse and nurse practitioner and eventually became Site Manager at the Labrador South Health Centre. CHE Collection, CHE-ID #1140.

The former Louis A. Hall nursing station, now a B&B. May 15, 2019. D.Robbins photo.