User:Mardellemonroe

Personal details:
Born 1955, Barrie Ontario Canada Moderator and Manager for Community Spirit group Knitted Knockers Alberta & Western Canada Website: www.knittedknockersab.com

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1	Early life and career 1.1	Education 2	Personal Life & Marriages 2.1	Children 3	Illness 4      Retirement 5	References 6	External links =====

Early life and Career
Born in 1955 in Ontario to father, Eugene Joseph (Chuck) Blanchard a French Acadian with Mi'kmaq heritage, & mother Martha Agnes Matula (Slovak heritage).Parents met in the Canadian Armed Forces, Mr Blanchard often joked that Mrs Blanchard was his boss in the Forces and he married her because he was so used to her telling him what to do. Moving frequently, Donna has lived across Canada and Eastern USA and Europe.

Started working at 16 in 1971, as a private secretary for the Cafe Cons an international talent agency who brought in performers flown in from as far away as Australia, often underage, to work in the caboret night club environment. These "girls" goals were often to be able to dance topless in Las Vegas, in Montreal Quebec Canada. Later started working as a keypunch operator, within weeks became the evening supervisor and then quickly worked up the corporate ladder and was promoted to a computer operator at the pinnacle of the computer age. She worked on the first large industrial computer the Univac which was a tape to tape reel, for RCA Record company.

1975 Aching to get out on her own and to leave a difficult relationship with her mother, Donna moved to Alberta Canada with $200 in her pocket. She decided to help out some family in their restaurant as a bartender and as their child minder in High Prairie in northern Alberta. She met her 1st husband here, Dwaine James Babkirk. Dwaine was an irresponsible alcoholic and left her to fend for herself soon after having her first child Pamela. Donna packed her few belongings and moved to Fort McMurray Alberta to try to start a new life. Her family (mother, father, brother & sister) were relocating to Fort McMurray from Montreal and Donna was hoping to get back on her feet with their support.

1977 Working as a computer operator for Great Canadian Oil Sands (GCOS) now named Suncor; Donna met her 2nd husband Paul Gardiner Humphreys an oil sands engineer whose father was a prior Manager of GCOS. Due to long working hours that included 2 hours of travelling to work and back, Donna worked for the Fort McMurray Regional Hospital as their computer operator. She was transferred Administration as administrative assistant to the VP of Communications, and realizing that she needed more experience and education to move in a more senior position. Donna transferred again into Human Resources, while working casual in Emergency as an intake clerk.

1986 Donna completed her Bachelor of Nursing and was hired back to the Fort McMurray Regional Hospital as an Ultrasonographer. The contract was that the Hospital would cover all expenses, educational tuition and preceptorship, in return she would remain at the Hospital for at least 2 years and work as an ultrasound tech in the Radiology Department.

1992 Donna moved to Calgary Alberta and started working at the Foothills Hospital as an Ultrasonographer, on-call for Foothills Hospital, Children's Hospital and the Peter Lougheed Hospital.

Education
Bachelor of Nursing: Keyano College Diploma specializing in Ultrasound: Fetal hearts, Fetal brains, Cardiology, simple interventions, Instructor for Ultrasonographer & Radiology students. Bachelor of Hypnotherapy: Hypnotherapy Community University USA Teaching Diploma: Adult Instructions ICS