Walkway named after long-time health care workers

A corridor between the Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win health centre and the Jeremiah McKay Kabayshewekamik hostel has been named after Sam and Madeline Crane.
In a ceremony on Sept. 5, Sioux Lookout First Nation Health Authority board of directors chair John Cutfeet explained that Same and Madeline Crane devoted many hours of their lives providing health services in the Sioux Lookout area.
The following excerpt is from the speech given by Cutfeet at the ceremony.
“Sam and Madeline started working at the Sioux Lookout Zone Hospital in 1949, Sam in maintenance and Madeline in laundry. Both were present for the official ribbon cutting of the official opening of the Sioux Lookout Zone Hospital.
“During the summer of 1951, Sam and Madeline moved to Osnaburgh and worked in the nursing station. Sam and Madeline moved back to the area, first to Hudson and then to Sioux Lookout in 1960.
“In 1972, Sam and Madeline were hired to manage the Sioux Lookout Zone Hostel where they lived and worked until 1981.
“Sam and Madeline were our connection to health care, so it is an honour and privilege and highly appropriate to name the connecting link in their honour.”