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Kate Shaw Brighty, 1883-1985, was born in England. In 1896 her family moved to Canada, and in 1913 they moved to Alberta. Kate graduated as a nurse from the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Edmonton in 1917. She enlisted with the Canadian Army Medical Corps after her graduation, then in 1923 joined the provincial Department of Public Health. After four years of public health nursing in the Peace River district she left to do postgraduate work in nursing at Columbia University in New York, 1927-1929. On her return she was appointed superintendent of Public Health Nurses, a post she held until she retired to British Columbia in the early 1940s. In 1951 she married William Henry "Harry" Colley, 1894-1971, who had formerly run Terrill's Flowers in Calgary. She began to write articles about her experiences and published her autobiography, While Rivers Flow : Stories of Early Alberta. - Saskatoon, Prairie Books, Western Producer, 1970.