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Smellie was designated a Person of National Historic Significance in 2011 by the federal government, on the recommendation of the national Historic Sites and Monuments Board. After World War II she returned to the V.O.N., and retired in 1947. During WWII, Smellie served as Matron-in-Chief, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps Nursing Services.
After graduating, he began practicing with his father in 1936. During her last public appearance in her hometown, Smellie addressed the 50th graduating class of nurses at McKellar General Hospital.
The first woman to attain the rank of Colonel in Canada's Armed Forces, Col. Smellie achieved many honours, including Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire and the Royal Red Cross Medal. The Honourable J.L. Ralston called her "dean of the nursing service" and she went on to become an Honourary Colonel, the first female to reach this position in the Canadian Army.
Upon his return to the 4th Field Ambulance, the unit would join the First Canadian Division in Holland. During this same year, she was made Honourary President of Branch 5, Royal Canadian Legion in Port Arthur, Ontario.
One of the last honours she received was the Red Chevron award for her contributions to the military nursing services.
During this disaster, Borland was involved in the rescue of victims of the flood with the use of a helicopter. In 1944, Smellie retired from the services. Upon the Outbreak of war in 1914, Smellie volunteered to provide service overseas. Elizabeth Smellie was demobilized in 1920 and three years later became Chief Superintendent of the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada.
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This celebrated Canadian army nurse and public health authority was born in Port Arthur, Ontario. He has completed qualification as a Flight Paramedic with the Armed Forces, graduated from Seneca College�s Medic Program, continues to be an accredited mortician and has received further military medical training at Vancouver General Hospital.
Borland also participated in Operation Podium, which provided support for a six-month period around the 2010 Winter Olypmics, which took place in Vancouver, BC.
Outside of the military, Borland has worked for nearly 14 years at the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre as of 2010. Here she worked as the night supervisor at McKellar General Hospital in Fort William.
After graduating from St. Margaret�s College inToronto, she decided to follow her father into the medical field by training to become a Nurse at John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. (Commander of the British Empire) for her war service, received the "Snively" Nursing Medal and an Honourary Doctor of Laws (LLD) from the University of Western, Ontario.
She re-entered the army in 1940 and a year later supervised the organization of the Canadian Women's Army Corps. In 1940 she returned to the military as matron in chief helping to organize the Canadian Women's Army Corps. At this time, McIntosh was subsequently transferred to the Saskatoon Light Infantry as Regimental Medical Officer and then to the 5th Field Ambulance that landed in Sicily on D-Day, July 10, 1943.
McIntosh would remain overseas, helping out in Canadian hospitals in England right up until his discharge in 1946.