how much I hated it.". However, throughout the interview Eva spoke animatedly and even remembered

anecdotes with fondness. Perhaps it is because of her later experiences that she remembers her entire

Eva was born in Latvia but shortly after her birth, her family was evacuated to Australia at the

beginning of WWII. Her family, she says, "treated her the same way as [her] brother" "the only reason

he got special treatment was because he had polio". Her mother and father both worked - a rarity in

postwar Australia - and she attended an all girls school. When questioned, Eva says that she chose

nursing because "I was sick of Uni, sick of being dependant on my family and I wanted to move out.

But I didn't have the money so I went into nursing. In those days, we got room and board as well as a

small wage." In 1963, Eva says that nurses were treated as little more than glorified maids. But unlike

the cleaners she compares herself to, the nurses did not have a union. All the young nurses were "like a

family, like sisters". They worked 6 days a week for 12 hours a shift w

under 15 in her care with very little moral support from her husband who now had to work overtime to

the nurses union, but she was a union member because in Alberta, you are automatically a member

job at the lodge and they lived in a trailer until they were transferred to Vancouver. Eva began working

take a refresher course. Eva had to learn all the new techniques and technological advances that had

experiences and she says that she couldn't have imagined her life turning out any other way.

hich left little time for socializing.

when you become a RN. During her time as a nurse in Edmonton, Eva discovered that a lot of the

been made in the last 10 years. "I didn't have a choice, I had to take the course before I could be an

children, they should come first. This decision was made more permanent once her second child was

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