Lyle Creelman was a provincial, national and international nursing leader of great distinction. She was born August 14, 1908, in Nova Scotia and later, moved to Vancouver with her parents. Her first career was as an elementary school teacher but she changed professions, graduating from VGH in 1936 and from UBC with a Bachelor of Applied Science in Nursing A Rockefeller Scholarship in 1938 enabled her to obtain a master’s degree from Columbia University in 1939. She worked for the Metropolitan Health Department in Vancouver serving as a supervisor of public health nursing, and then director of nursing during the early 1940’s. She was president of RNABC in 1944.
