Charlotte Edith Anderson Monture

Charlotte Edith Anderson Monture (1890-1996) was the first Native Canadian registered nurse. She was born in Canada, but she had to be trained as a nurse in the United States because all the Canadian nursing schools refused her due to her race. She worked as an elementary school nurse, but left that job in 1917 to join the Army Nurse Corps. She served in France at a military hospital. She was one of fourteen Native Canadian women who served as members of the Army Nurse Corps during World War I, and one of only two of them who served overseas (the other being Cora E. Sinnard, a member of the Oneida tribe who also served in France).