Lieutenant Roberta Macadams
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Date of birth: 1880-07-21
Place of birth: Sarnia Ontario Canada
Next of kin: Robert Macadams, Father, 233 Brock St. N., Sarnia, Ontario
Marital status: no data
Occupation (attested): Dietician
Occupation (normalized): Dietitian, General
Address:
233 Brock St. N., Sarnia, Ontario
Gender: female
Religion: Church of England
MILITARY INFORMATION
Regimental number: NA
Highest Rank:
Lieutenant
Rank detail
Lieutenant (Army).
Degree of service: Great Britain
Survived war: yes
Images
RESEARCH INFORMATION
LAC ID:
143514
Attestation record(s): image 1
Service file: B6562-S023
Uploader's Notes:
Elected to the Alberta Legislature in 1917. The second woman in the British Empire to be elected to a legislature and the first in the Empire to introduce a bill to a legislature.
According to her Wikipedia entry, Miss MacAdams was a Dietician.
Vancouver Daily Sun - 24 December 1917 - article entitled "Nurses Were Paid Splendid Tribute / Men of Alberta's Plains and Foothills Choose Miss Roberta MacAdams as Representing Best in Womanhood".
Uploader's Research notes: [Nursing Sister Army Canadian Army Medical Corps Ontario Military Hospital ]
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Date added: 2008-08-19
Last modified: 2013-04-30