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Eliza Parks Hegan (1861 – February 18, 1917) was a Canadian nurse. She was matron of the Victoria Public Hospital from 1890 to 1892 and then became the matron at Saint John General Public Hospital from 1892 to 1895. Hegan worked at the New York Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital for three years and she set up a private hospital in Saint John, New Brunswick in 1898. She was a contributor to the founding of the first local nursing association, the Graduate Nurses' Society of Saint John General Public Hospital, in 1903, and became its fifth president six years later when it became the Saint John Graduate Nurses Association.