Clotilda Douglas-Yakimchuk

Clotilda Douglas-Yakimchuk (January 11, 1932 – April 15, 2021) was a Canadian nurse. She was the first African-Canadian to graduate from the Nova Scotia Hospital School of Nursing and the first black president of the Registered Nurses Association of Nova Scotia.

Quotes

• "And the lesson that I thought I learned, and that we both learned from that experience, that when you moved beyond the person's colour and you get to know them as a person, that you find that we're very, very similar in likes, dislikes, our wants and our experiences in life."
  • [1] Clotilda Douglas-Yakimchuk on moving beyond a person's colour (February 1, 2018).

• "The lesson that I thought I learned, and that we both learned from that experience, that when you moved beyond the person's colour and you get to know them as a person, that you find that we're very, very similar in likes, dislikes, our wants and our experiences in life"
  • [2] on the lesson learnt