Morrison Way was dedicated to Lieutenant Nursing Sister Jessie Morrison by the Canada Lands Company on August 15, 2007, as part of their redevelopment of Edmonton’s former Canadian Forces Base (Griesbach Barracks).
Morrison enlisted in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps in May 1941, where she served as a Lieutenant Nursing Sister in military hospitals in Halifax, Sydney and Shelburne before being posted to England and Normandy with the No. 10 Canadian General Hospital. She returned to Canada in 1945 for discharge and began working with the Veterans’ hospitals in Edmonton (Colonel Mewburn and the Wells Pavilions) and in Calgary (Colonel Belcher Hospital) under Veterans Affairs Canada. Morrison went to Montreal to assist in setting up the program at the School for Nursing Aides for Veterans Affairs Canada. In 1949, she became Matron/Director of Nursing at the Veterans’ Home located at Government House in Edmonton until she retired in 1967.