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... and helped to establish the hotel-Dieu hospital. In the eighteenth century the growth of cities brought an increase in the number of hospitals and the need for nursing education. The first training school for nurse in Canada is founded at the St. Catharines General and Marine Hospital in St. Catharines, Ontario in 1874 by Dr. Theophilus Mack. The second training school opened in April, 1881, was Toronto General Hospital. By 1891, the training program was 160 hours spend over 9 months in a two-year program, following revisions by Mary Agnes Snively, a revolutionary nursing educator. The program was lengthened in 1896 to three years setting the example for most other schools of nursing. John Murray Gurray and Mary S. Mathewson described the program in "Three centuries of Canadian Nursing as in this course. There were 84 hours of Practical Nursing and 119 hours of instruction by the medical staff." In ...