MONTREAL — We know their names. Some of them are Margaret “Pearl” Fraser of New Glasgow, N.S.; Mary Agnes McKenzie and Carola Douglas of Toronto; Alexina Dussault of Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec; and Margaret Fortescue of York Factory, Man. Among them was Minnie Follette, whose portrait hangs in Age of Sail Heritage Centre and Museum in Port Greville, N.S.

Follette also is remembered with a monument in the Anglican cemetery in Fox River, N.S. — and in the historical memory of Canadians who to this day mourn the deaths of 14 nursing sisters, all but two of them Canadians, who survived a submarine attack on the British hospital ship Llandovery Castle, only to perish when a German U-boat circled back to sink their lifeboat. History being ironic as well as instructive, a look into Follette’s life

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