Nora Cook
Nora Cook was born on a farm in Upps Township, 5 miles from Lindsay, Ontario in 1924. She was one of seven girls and one boy, but her father died when she was four years old they had to manage everything themselves through the depression years. When she was 18, she decided to go into nursing and then joined the army shortly after graduating. She was shipped overseas in November 1943 and worked endless hours in field hospitals in France, Belgium and Germany. After the war, she joined the Victorian order of Nurses and worked with them for the remainder of her career. She lives in North York, and remains in close contact with many of her nursing sisters. However, they never talk about the things they saw and had to deal with. As Nora says, “You try to remember the good times.”