Even though they are fenced we do not need any medical emergencies. For the communities medical needs we still need to travel to Slave Lake or Athabasca. District Nursing Stations were started in Alberta in 1919. We did not have a Nursing station until 1934 when a meeting was called with Miss Brighty, the Director of District Nurses. Things moved smoother in those days. When given information about the arrival of so many families from the prairies in 1931 and the nearest doctor being about 50 miles away in Athabasca the district was formed that day. It covered Smith, Hondo, Chisholm, Spurfield and Moose Portage. The people of Hondo volunteered to provide the logs for a cottage and to erect it. On January 25, 1935 our first nurse, Miss Irene Stewart, arrived. She was housed in one of Mr. Duncan’s log cabins, located behind what is now Mirror Landing General Store, until her house was completed. Other nurses that would later come to the area included; Nurses Haynes, Wyld, Nordtrop and Nurse Drummond-Hay. These ladies did their best to take care of all forms of illnesses. The colds, flues, measles, diphtheria and other contagious sicknesses must have drove them to exhaustion. They were the mid-wives who delivered babies. In emergency situations they tried to patch you up the best they could before sending you by train to the nearest Doctor in Athabasca. They must have felt totally inadequate in some of the emergencies they encountered. Without them though some of the old timers in the area may not have been here today.