Evelyn Pepper
Evelyn Agnes Pepper, C.St.J. was a Canadian nurse and nursing sister, named as a Commander of the Order of St John. She was awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal and was made Honorary President of the Nursing Sisters Association of CanadaLife
Pepper was born in Ottawa, Ontario and graduated from Ottawa Civic Hospital in 1928 before attending McGill University. She served as a Nursing Sister for the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps in England, Italy, the Netherlands and France during World War II.
She was awarded the Order of Canada in 1996 for her "outstanding example of dedication, professionalism and responsibility," as well as her leadership, contributions to health care, and disaster emergency planning. Pepper died in her native Ottawa in 1998, aged 93. She never married.
