If you live on the North Shore, chances are you have been to Lions Gate Hospital in some capacity. The hospital is a cornerstone of the community where lives start and lives end, and where sick and injured seek help, care and cure. Today's hospital is in the area of the first funded hospital on East 15th near St. Andrew's Avenue, which opened its doors to patients on May 15, 1908. Read on to learn more about the Dawson sisters, three nurses from Yorkshire, who took it upon themselves to build and run the first hospital in North Vancouver.