Edna Mabel Auger (1876-1932)

In June 1924, the full-time instructress at Medicine Hat General Hospital (MHGH) school of nursing and all the graduated nurses on staff at the hospital resigned (MHGH Minutes of the Board, 1924). Because of cutbacks, the school's superintendent, Edna Auger, was unable to hire an instructress again until 1928, and so she took on most of the teaching duties herself (MHGH Minutes of the Board, 1928). The cause of the group resignation remains clouded in controversy. One theory holds that a book written by Auger and approved by the hospital board in 1922, Rules and Regulations for Nurses, caused some dissension among staff members and their ultimate resignations.