forth in Clause Two of the Declaration or Certificate of Incorporation, as follows: The establishment and maintenance at the City of Ottawa of a School or Institute for Training Nurses for the sick, and a home of residence for trained nurses, and as incidental thereto the providing of trained nurses for those who require their services. On June 21, 1890 the provisional committee handed over the work of establishing the Institute to a board of directors elected by the Subscribers. During the summer 1890, the committee selected and purchased a site at the corner of Rideau Street and Wurtemburg Street in Ottawa at the cost of $950, which the board considered a very reasonable price. It was situated beside the General Protestant Hospital, which was itself located at the corner of Rideau Street and Charlotte Street. The committee then obtained, accepted and approved of a plan and specifications. It called for tenders for the whole work of construction, and entered into contracts based upon the best offers submitted by September 11 from which time the building was erected. By January 26, 1891, at the First Annual Report, the sum of $13,885.50 was promised of which $11,600.50 was paid up. All the equipment and furniture of the institute were provided by the honorary president and vice president with the assistance of a large number of women. The institute was furnished at no cost to the funds of the corporation. The directors recorded the following: "the great obligations under which the Institute is placed to Her Excellency and to Lady Macdonald for the great interest which they have shown in the scheme, and their untiring efforts towards making it a success." By May 21, 1891, the institute was completed for the sum of $15,830 well under the budgeted amount. It was fully equipped and furnished for the sum of $3,000 free of charge to the corporation. An unknown friend of the institute gave $4,000 to secure the cost of maintenance during the start of its operation. On May 7, 1891, the board of trustees appointed Miss Gertrude Warren Moore as lady superintendent to the institute. She was a Canadian who graduated as a trained nurse at Bellevue Hospital in New York, US. She was highly recommended to the board by the superintendent of the Bellevue Hospital, by many physicians and many others who were able to determine her ability to assume her