Marion Elizabeth Moodie was born in Quebec City in 1867, and came to Alberta with her family in 1891. She trained as a nurse at the Calgary General Hospital and in 1898 became the first nurse to graduate in Alberta. She served as a nursing sister in the First World War and became matron of the Ogden Military Hospital in Calgary. She moved to Manitoba in the early 1920's to manage a sanatorium, then on to Montreal to care for an elderly relative. She returned to Calgary in 1951 and died in 1958.