"! The old enmities imprinted into my mind by hearsay and history lessons were not so easily eradicated. Russia, the massive land in the east, always in search of outlets to the sea, of land and more land to satisfy its gluttonous cravings for own its own purported security, a ruthless giant dangerously dwarfing its smaller neighbors. Nonetheless, soon after New Year I took the train south and on a dull wintry afternoon arrived in , the camp for Russian prisoners of war."
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Louise de Kiriline Lawrence
(née Louise Flach; January 30, 1894 – April 27, 1992), a Swedish-born immigrant to Canada, was a , , and award-winning author. For one year from 1934 to 1935, she was the chief nurse in charge of the ’ nursery — this work with the quintuplets won for her a . She became in 1954 the first Canadian woman to be named an Elective Member of the and in 1970 received an honorary from .
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