Louise de Kiriline Lawrence

Louise de Kiriline Lawrence (née Louise Flach; January 30, 1894 – April 27, 1992), a Swedish-born immigrant to Canada, was a nurse, natural history naturalist, and award-winning author. For one year from 1934 to 1935, she was the chief nurse in charge of the Dionne Quintuplets’ nursery — this work with the quintuplets won for her a King George V Silver Jubilee Medal. She became in 1954 the first Canadian woman to be named an Elective Member of the American Ornithologists' Union and in 1970 received an honorary Doctor of Laws LL.D. from Laurentian University. Quotes Russians! The old enmities imprinted into my mind by hearsay and history lessons were not so easily eradicated. Russia, the massive land in the east, always in search of outlets to the sea, of land and more land to satisfy its gluttonous cravings for own its own purported security, a ruthless giant dangerously dwarfing its smaller neighbors.Nonetheless, soon after New Year I took the train south and on a dull wintry afternoon arrived in Horserød camp Horserød, the camp for Russian prisoners of war. Another Winter, Another Spring: A Love Remembered Dundurn Press 1987 9781459714861 https://books.google.com.bn/books?id=tLB3UaEjLRsC&pg=PA35 35 (280 pages; 1st edition 1977) My Bird ringing banding station is in the heart of the breeding grounds for the majority of the Eastern North-American Songbird song-birds. Except for a few, such as the Eurasian tree sparrow tree sparrow and the white-crowned sparrow which breed in Tundra the Barrens, most of their Bird migration migratory flyways come to an end in this Canadian zone. My traps stand in the midst of the woods surrounding my house, their locations carefully chosen according to season and the species expected to be visiting them. To Whom the Wilderness Speaks Dundurn Press 1989 9781554883677 https://books.google.com/books?id=lEZ6KpmpIH4C&pg=PA4 4 (192 pages; illustrated by Aleta Karstad; 1st edition 1980) Quotes about Louise de Kiriline Lawrence In 1935, Louise retired from nursing to write The Quintuplets' First Year (1936). Around her log cabin in northern Ontario she rediscovered nature. The Pimisi Bay area provided her with a perfect outdoor laboratory and there, in the early 1940s, she began banding birds. Later, with the encouragement of Doris Huestis Speirs Doris H. and J. Murray Speirs, as well as Margaret Morse Nice, she studied breeding biology. ...... In 1969 she received both the John Burroughs Medal John Burroughs' Memorial Award for "distinguished writing in natural history" and the Charles G. D. Roberts Sir G.D. Roberts Special Award. Marianne Gosztonyi Ainley, October 1992 In Memoriam: Louise de Kiriline Lawrence, 1894-1992 The Auk 109 issue 4, article 27 909–910 https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=22434&context=auk External links Category:1894 births Category:1992 deaths Category:Naturalists Category:Non-fiction authors from Canada Category:Non-fiction authors from Sweden Category:Nurses Category:Ornithologists Category:Women authors from Canada Category:Women born in the 19th century Category:Women from Sweden