Keziah Margaret Laing (1866-1947) was born at Nassagaweya, Halton County, Upper Canada. She took nurse's training at the General Hospital in Guelph, Ontario then attended the Methodist Training School in 1900 before going to Japan as a missionary with the Methodist Church (Canada) Woman's Missionary Society. From 1900-1905 she was stationed at Kanazawa doing evangelistic work. Afterwards, she returned to Canada and worked at Morley Residential School in Morley, Alberta from 1906-1910. From 1910-1916 she worked at Port Simpson Hospital in Lax Kw'alaams, British Columbia, initially as a nurse and eventually a superintendent. She retired in 1921 and died in Winnipeg in 1947.
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Hierarchical terms
Japan
Japan
- NT Chiba (prefecture)
- NT Fukui (prefecture)
- NT Fukuoka (prefecture)
- NT Gifu (prefecture)
- NT Gunma (prefecture)
- NT Hiroshima (prefecture)
- NT Hokkaidō (prefecture)
- NT Hyogō (prefecture)
- NT Ishikawa (prefecture)
- NT Kagawa (prefecture)
- NT Kanagawa (prefecture)
- NT Kyōto (prefecture)
- NT Mie (prefecture)
- NT Miyagi (prefecture)
- NT Nagano (prefecture)
- NT Nagasaki (prefecture
- NT Nagoya
- NT Niigata (prefecture)
- NT Okinawa (prefecture)
- NT Osaka
- NT Shimane (prefecture)
- NT Shizuoka (prefecture)
- NT Tochigi (prefecture)
- NT Tōkyō (prefecture)
- NT Tottori (prefecture)
- NT Toyama (prefecture)
- NT Yamanashi (prefecture)
Equivalent terms
Japan
- UF Nihon
- UF Nihon Koku
- UF Nippon
- UF Niphon