In this episode of the History Slam, Sean Graham talks with Marion McKinnon Crook about her new book Always Pack a Candle: A Nurse in the Cariboo-Chilcotin. They talk about her motivation for telling her story, her background in nursing, and the practical challenges of public health work. They also chat about the realities of working in such a vast area, systemic injustice in the health system, and what the challenges of dealing with skeptics of medical advancements in the 1960s can tell us about today.