Image Credits:

Alberta Board of Health. 1918. Glenbow Archives, NA-4548-5. http://activehistory.ca/2020/04/learning-from-a-past-pandemic-resources-on-the-1918-1919-influenza-epidemic-in-canada/

McDonald, Mary Josephine. Mary Josephine McDonald Diary Collection, 1917-1919. Rural Diary Archive. https://ruraldiaries.lib.uoguelph.ca/transcribe/items/show/280 

*all diary entry images come from this source

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