Always on Call: Adventures in Nursing, Ranching, and Rural Living

Marion McKinnon Crook depicted her first year as a young public health nurse in northern British Columbia in the memoir, Always Pack a Candle: A Nurse in the Cariboo-Chilcotin.  (See book review, BC Studies, Winter, 2021-22.) Now a follow-up memoir chronicles her life twelve years later.   It’s 1975 and Crook is married, raising three young … Continue reading Always on Call: Adventures in Nursing, Ranching, and Rural Living