Trailblazing New Brunswick nurse, co-founder of VON, 'wanted to help people'

New Brunswick's Elizabeth Robinson Scovil co-founded the Victorian Order of Nurses, wrote bestselling books on child health and parenting and was a founding editor of The Ladies Home Journal. A new biography tells her story.

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