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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a public health and registered nurse assigned for general duty in a remote part of Canada.

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1965

The position meant being field nurse for the 3,000 Indians in the Yukon Territory and Northern British Columbia, an area covering roughly 200,000 square miles.