| HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Lucienne Marie Pagé was born in 1905 in St. Albert, Alberta. She was the daughter of Felix and Eugénie Pagé. The family moved to Chauvin, Alberta in 1912 and Rivière-qui-Barre, Alberta in 1923. By this time, Lucienne was living in Edmonton, Alberta and attending the Edmonton General Hospital School of Nursing; she graduated in 1927. She was the first Franco-Albertan nurse born in the province. She worked as a nurse in Wainwright, Alberta, becoming matron, until 1940 and in Westlock, Alberta until 1944. She married Arthur Joseph Cantin in 1944; they had one daughter, Marie (Moser). Lucienne Cantin died February 24, 1990.
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| GENERAL NOTE: | Information for the biographical sketch is taken from The Wheels of Time: A History of Rivière qui Barre, which is available in the Provincial Archives of Alberta Reference Library, 971.233 F576, from Lucienne Cantin’s Edmonton Journal obituary and from the records.
The images can be located in the A file of the Provincial Archives of Alberta reference prints under the numbers A.16,004 through A.16,018.
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