When she arrived in Yellowknife the hospital had burned down....

"...When she arrived in Yellowknife the hospital had burned down, so for a
year the Elks Hall was turned into the hospital.

The bar was the lab. The pool room became the delivery room. The stage was
the nursing station. The RCMP posts and DEW-Line stations became the staff
meeting sites.

"It really prepared me for just about anything in life. You can do a lot
with nothing. I learned that at an early age," Maureen says...."

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