Biographical File N-S

Vivian Alice Reid
Paton, Nora ( -2018)
Irene Smith
Pauline Siddons 1919 – 1999
Therese Schnurr (1926-2016)
Margaret Scaia 1954 –
Mary Sarvela 1913 – 2004
Julie Roach 1927 – 2017
Lenore Radom 1945 –
Sheila Oxholm (1937-
Swail, Anna (1905-
Surina, Sister Leanne Marie (1937-2002)
Street, Margaret Mary (1907-1993)
Strand, Elsie (1931-2009)
Stephens, Gloria
Staples, Sara “Sally” (1926-2012)
Stanton, Sheila
Splane, Verna (1914-2015)
Smith, Rosalind (1920-1990)
Smith, Alice Katherine (1910-1998)
Sloan, Harriet (1917-2016)
Slaughter, Dorothy (1911-1993)
Shore, Helen (1925-2020)
Schamborzki, Inge (1951-
Saunders, Ruth (1923-2002)
Saunders, Helen (1917-2014)
Russell, Winnifred Emily (1905-2001)
Runka, Celia (1938-
Rumen, Nina (1927-2022)
Rothwell, Emily Sue (1943-2013)
Rossiter, Edna (1905-1988)
Ross, Florence Mary (1919-1995)
Ross (nee King), Betty (1943- )
Roblin, Olive, (nee Wilson) (1916-
Ritchie, Diana (1925-2007)
Richmond, Mary (1920-2002)
Redmond, Sister Frances Dalrymple (1854-1932)
Ratsoy, Bernadet “Bernie” (1936-2009)
Ranta, Pauline (1914- 2010)
Ransom (nee McLeod), Elsie “Rannie” (1896-2000)
Randal, Helen Louisa (1872-1963)
Proudfoot (nee Gilfillian), Dorothy Anna (1928-
Pringle, Eden Lyall (1893-1918)
Priestly, Dorothy (ca. 191- -1988)
Prentice, Sally Irene (1892-1982)
Powell (nee Armstrong), Margaret Jean (1925-
Petch (nee Clunas), E.L. Ruth (1925-
Pennington, Marion (1910-1991)
Payton, Phyllis (1909-2007)
Paulson, Esther (1906-2004)
Patterson (nee Branscombe), Emily Susan (1835 -1909)
Owen (nee Ford), Alice E. (1913-2003)
Niskala, Dr. Helen (1926-2018)
Neylan (nee Prowse), Margaret S. (1924-2005)
Newton, June (1919-2015)

Vivian Alice Reid

Reid, Vivian Alice

Vivian graduated from Rest Haven Hospital in Sidney in 1936. In 1921 the Seventh Day Adventist Church had bought the property and it was made into a health centre, including a training school for nurses. It became a General Hospital in 1949 and in 1966 replaced by a new hospital.

Contents of Biographical File

This folder of material relates to Vivian Reid’s graduation from Resthaven Hospital in Sidney in 1936, including photographs, and historical information on Resthaven. All material is photocopied.

Paton, Nora ( -2018)

See OH 146

Born and raised in Kenora, Nora had a varied career as a neurological nurse, chief negotiator for the BC Nurses’ Union and a vice-chairman of the BC Labour relations board. She also excelled at curling, representing BC at the national mixed championships.

Contents of Biographical File

Obituary

Irene Smith

Smith (nee Anderson), Irene

Irene Anderson was recruited from her position with BC Mental Health Services in spring 1942 to operate a hospital at Hastings Park Internment Camp for Japanese residents. Her duties included administering the hospital, supervising patient care, supervising staff, and training aides to supplement the professional nursing staff. Male and female patients and young children, as well as those suffering from TB, were segregated. Patients with more serious medical issues were transferred to VGH. In September 1942 Irene resigned to enroll in the Teaching and Supervision diploma program at UBC School of Nursing.

Photograph shows Irene Anderson (centre) with nurses at the Hastings Park Hospital for the Japanese in 1942.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical information by Ethel Warbinek
“Nikkei Memories” in The Bulletin Literary Supplement: A Journal for and About the Nikkei Community (April 1996)

Pauline Siddons 1919 – 1999

Siddons, Pauline A.J. (1919-1999)

Pauline Siddons played a major leadership role in the nursing profession, particularly in the late 1960s and early 1970s, helping break down the stigma of mental illness through educating BC public health nurses about ways to re-introduce the mentally ill back into the community following their long term institutionalization in mental health hospitals.

Pauline was born in Saskatoon and graduated from the Saskatoon City Hospital. She served from 1944-46 with RCAMC, and in 1947 completed a certificate in Public Health Nursing at UBC. Later she completed a BSN in administration and supervision at UofT.

Pauline worked for BC Public Health Nursing in a number of communities. From 1969 to 1981 she worked in Victoria as a consultant to Public Health staff, with special responsibility for increasing emphasis on mental health issues as part of the generalized public health nursing program.

Contents of Biographical File

Nomination materials for the RNABC Memorial Book, prepared by Glennis Zilm.
Letter from Helen Shore to Monica Green, May 26, 1999.
Letter from Monica Green to Helen Shore, May 31, 1999.
Biographical notes
Photograph
Obituary

Therese Schnurr (1926-2016)

Schnurr (nee Sabourin), Therese M. (1926-2016)

See OH165

Therese Sabourin grew up in Ottawa, becoming a member of the Sisters of Providence in 1948. She attended St. Paul’s Hospital School of Nursing in Vancouver, graduating in 1956. She later received her BA from Seattle University and her Master’s from the University of Washington. She worked at a number of hospitals in Western Canada, retiring from Chilliwack General Hospital in 1988. She served as the Director of Nursing Services for RNABC.

Therese reflected on the history of nursing during her career as a process of nurses gradually gaining more respect, for which she considered education to be key. She was a member of a number of committees and professional organizations which she felt had given her a broader view of nursing and the factors influencing decision-making.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical Information Profile
Biographical release form
“Profile”, RNABC News (1970), p. 13.
[Nomination information], The Canadian Nurse, April 1976, p. 29. Later information
with no source, but probably from The Canadian Nurse.
Obituary

Margaret Scaia 1954 –

Scaia, Margaret (ca. 1954-

After twenty years manufacturing outdoor equipment for Mountain Equipment Co-op and Eco-Marine, Margaret enrolled in Selkirk College’s nursing program. After graduation with a Governor General’s Bronze Medal for academic achievement, she continued her education with a Bachelor, Masters and PhD. Margaret is an Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of Victoria. In 2015 she received the honour of distinguished Alumni from Selkirk College and is an active member of CAHN.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical information
Photograph

Mary Sarvela 1913 – 2004

Sarvela (nee Buckland), Mary “Molly” Richards (1913-2004)

Many Sitka, Alaska residents have commended Mary for her extensive civic involvements. She was recreation director at the Sitka Pioneer Home, organized and was President of the Sitka Community Auxiliary, hosted an annual salmon bake at her home for the Sitka Summer Music Festival, and contributed her energy to many other community organizations. The Sitka Chamber of Commerce’s “Cossack Cap” award recognized these many accomplishments.

Mary was born in New Zealand and graduated from the VGH School of Nursing in 1937. After her marriage in 1940, she moved to Sitka, where from 1955 to 1975 she was a general duty nurse and supervisor, later becoming recreational director. Her energy and commitment inspired many.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical Information Profile
Biographical information
Mary Richards, “What Nursing Means to Me”.
“Sitka’s Faith in Action” Newsletter
In support of Sarvela’s nomination for the Cossack Cup Award.
Photocopied article and letter on Richards.
Photograph (1988)
Ardyce Czuchna-Curl, “Mary Sarvela: How to Live Life to the Fullest”, Daily
Sitka Sentinel, Sitka, Alaska, August 15, 2003.
Biographical information
Funeral program

Julie Roach 1927 – 2017

Roach, Julie (Sister Scholastica) (1927-2017)

See OH156.5

Julie was born on a Saskatchewan farm, the child of immigrants from Russia. She moved to Seattle and joined the Sisters of Providence for her novitiate and served this order for 20 years as Sister Scholastica She graduated from St Paul’s Hospital School of Nursing and with a BASc(N) from UBC in 1959. Julie left the sisterhood in 1968. She spent her early nursing career at St. Paul’s Hospital. In 1968 she married and spent the remainder of her career working at the Dartmouth Regional Vocational School Nova Scotia, where she taught the LPN program for 20 years. Julie was an excellent seamstress and taught sewing classes. She is survived by her husband, James, of 49 years, a son and grandchildren.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical information Profile with handwritten notes
Oral History Recording Agreement form
Photographs: 1 b&w; 1966 St. Paul’s Hospital, OR supervisor Sr. Scholastica with
latest heart monitoring equipment; 4 colour wedding photo 1968 and July 30, 2014.
Note from Gloria Stephens, August 29, 2014.
Obituary, Halifaxtoday, October 27, 2017.

Lenore Radom 1945 –

Radom, Lenore (1945-

Lenore began her nursing career as a LPN and in 1972, graduated from Royal Jubilee Hospital School of Nursing. After graduation and subsequent employment at the Royal Jubilee Hospital, she worked at BC Children’s Hospital and Richmond General Hospital for 10 years before becoming an instructor with the Richmond School Board. Lenore served in many capacities during her seventeen years on the Richmond Delta Chapter of RNABC – was president for more than 12 years. She was awarded Honorary Membership in the RNABC in 1977.

Lenore is currently active with the BC History of Nursing Society as chair of the website committee and member of others. Her volunteer work includes teaching Breast Self-Examination. She is very proud of her aboriginal heritage. Her mother is a full status member of the Cree Nation

Contents of Biographical File

Biography for Pages of History
Photograph

Sheila Oxholm (1937-

Oxholm (nee Oliver), Sheila (1937-

Sheila grew up in an English mining family. She graduated from Dudley Road Hospital in Birmingham, obtained a Diploma in Respiratory Disease and SRM in Midwifery, with further training in neonatal nursing at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. After emigrating to Canada, she worked at the Montreal General Hospital 1962-63, as a midwife at St. Stephen’s Hospital in Newfoundland, and St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver from 1963-1967 and again from 1969-1972. In 1972, she completed a BSN at UBC. Sheila had an extensive nursing career working in the burn unit at VGH, Assistant Director of Nursing at Riverview Hospital and a teaching position at Vancouver Community College. She retired in 2001.

Her memorable experiences include treating polio patients with homemade portable respirators. As a consultant for the provincial government she travelled throughout the north, learning about the north and nursing in small hospitals.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical Information Profile with extra notes.
Signed biographical agreement
Photograph

Swail, Anna (1905-

See Oral History Files, Fonds 18, Series 3, Subseries 8

Anna received her RN from Winnipeg General Hospital and commenced courses for her BSN, although her husband’s death in 1952 ended her studies. She worked at Winnipeg General from 1928 to 1938 and served in the Canadian Army from 1939 to 1946 where she achieved the rank of Major. She later worked as a field nurse for the Indian Health Services, regarding these years as the best in her career. She retired as Regional Nursing Supervisor in 1966.

Contents of Biographical File

1. Biographical Information Profile
2. Biographical notes from The Military Nurses of Canada, pp. 161-162.

Surina, Sister Leanne Marie (1937-2002)

Surina, Sister Leanne Marie / Surina, Sister Virginia (1937-2002)

Virginia Surina left her hometown of Kaslo, BC in 1956 to attend St. Paul’s Hospital School of Nursing in Vancouver. She entered the Novitiate of the Sisters of Saint Ann in Victoria in 1959, earning a Bachelor of Science from the University of Seattle in 1962. She subsequently worked at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Victoria, and as Director of Nursing at Sacred Heart Hospital in Smithers, BC.

She was Director of Nursing at Mount St. Francis (Geriatric) Hospital in Nelson from 1969 to 1984, where she was in charge of staff hiring and scheduling. After a sabbatical year studying in Ottawa, she returned to Mount St. Mary’s Hospital in Victoria where she was Chief of Pastoral Care from 1989 to 1999. Many remember her numerous kind deeds and helpful counseling.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical sketch
Nomination to RNABC Memorial book, with CV, photographs, and other materials supporting her nomination.

Street, Margaret Mary (1907-1993)

See Oral History files, Fonds 18, Series 3, Subseries 8
See Memorial Nursing Portrait collection, Fonds 18, Fonds 18, Series 3, Subseries 9, File 7
See Margaret Street Fonds in the UBC Archives.

Born in Toronto, Margaret Street grew up in Winnipeg, graduating from the University of Manitoba in 1928. After four years’ teaching, she became a nurse, holding various senior administrative positions across Canada. In 1961 she graduated from the Master’s in Nursing Administration program at Boston University.

From 1961 until her retirement in 1972 she taught in the UBC School of Nursing where she became friends with Ethel Johns, the first director of the UBC nursing program. This encouraged her to write her biography of Ethel Johns, Watch-fires on the Mountains: The Life and Writings of Ethel Johns, (1973), which received the Walter Stewart Baird Medal for the year’s best historical book on health sciences. Her awards have also included the Queen’s Silver Jubilee Medal in 1977 and the Order of Canada in 1982. Margaret was an honorary life member of the BC History of Nursing Society.

Contents of Biographical File

Curriculum Vitae—UBC.
Nomination to the CNA Memorial Book.
Articles by Margaret Street
1. “The Orientation of Nurses.” The Canadian Nurse, (1947) 43 (7), 533-536.
2. “The Life and Writings of Ethel Johns”: A Biography Project. Proceedings of the Colloquium on Nursing Research, March 28-30, 1973, Ottawa, CNA.
3. “Canadian Nursing in Perspective: Past, Present and Future.” Keynote address. Fiftieth anniversary of the University of Alberta Hospital and The University of Alberta School of Nursing, November 15, 1974.
4. “Staffing Problems in Nursing Service”, The Canadian Nurse, February 1965, 61 (2), 91-93.
5. “A Biographical Program of the Nursing Program at Mount Royal College, Calgary”, April 10, 1985.

Proposal for Johns’ biography
Notes for book
Wallace, Pat, “Love’s Labor Wins.” Rev. of The Life and Writings of Ethel Johns, The Province, February 13, 1974.
“Biography of a Trail Blazer”, Rev. of The Life and Writings of Ethel Johns, RNABC News 6 (2), 10.
“Margaret Street Authors Biography of Ethel Johns”, RNABC News, October/November 1972, pp. 11-12.
Excerpt from Ethel Johns’ book
Notes on Ethel Johns’ book
The M.A.R.N. Makes a New Appointment.” The Canadian Nurse (1943), 39 (9), 594.
M.M Street, “Professors Emeriti Division, UBC Alumni Association: Oral history project”.
Material prepared by Margaret M. Street for interview, September 30, 1987.
Street, M.M. [Notes] (preparation for interview by Ann Carroll), October 25, 1990.
Ann Carroll’s questionnaire, with responses.
Letter to M. Street from Walter Gage, President of UBC, January 21, 1974.
“Endnotes”, The Canadian Nurse, September 1982, p. 62.
Mackie, E.J. “Gertrude M. Hall and Margaret M. Street. Biographical Information”, June 1984.
“Miss Margaret Street”. In Desjardins, E., Flanagan, E. and Giroux, S. “Heritage: History of the Nursing Profession in Quebec from the Augustinians and Jeanne Mance to Medicare”, Adaptation from French by H. Shaw. Montreal, ANPQ (1971), 175.
“Names and Faces”, The Canadian Nurse (September 1976), p. 14.
Fax to C. Petty from G. Zilm, January 26, 1994.
Correspondence, 1987-1995.
“In Memoriam”, UBC Alumni Chronicle, Spring 1994, p. 28.
Ethel Warbinek, “In Memoriam”, UBC Alumni Association: School of Nursing Division Newsletter, March 1994, p. 4.
In Memoriam, 1907-1993.
Bateson, Helen, [Memorial program and biographical information].
“Margaret M. Street: In Memoriam”, AARN (1994), 50 (1), 31.
Obituaries
Eight photographs
Material regarding nomination for University of Alberta doctorate. – 1993
Biography and CV
Biographical information with photocopied photograph.
Funeral program

Strand, Elsie (1931-2009)

Strand (nee Olsen), Elsie (1931-2009)

Elsie graduated from Ontario’s McKellar School of Nursing in 1952, where she became an instructor from 1952 to 1955. She later taught in the LPN program at Malaspina College in Nanaimo, and then worked for the Cowichan District Hospital in different capacities. She has been active in a number of professional and community organizations, which she appreciates for keeping her updated with nursing practice and healthcare administration.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical Information Profiles and release form
Obituary

Stephens, Gloria

Stephens (nee Webb), Gloria Louise

See Oral History Files, Fonds 18, Series 3, Subseries 8, AUOH38
See Pages of History, Fonds 18, Series 3, Subseries 9, File 2

Gloria Webb was born in Halifax where she graduated from the Victoria General Hospital School of Nursing in 1953. She worked mainly as an OR nurse, serving as President of the Operating Room Nurses Association of Canada, and speaking at many provincial, national and international conferences. In 1988 she received the first Isobel Adams award for excellence in perioperative nursing. She also received the RNABC award for excellence in nursing practice.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical Information Profile
Curriculum Vitae
Articles by Stephens
1. “Walking the Tightrope as an OR Nurse”, September 1992.
2. “The Struggle of Nursing and Nursing Education as a Profession”, November 1982.
3. “Meeting Needs of Canadian Surgical Patients”, Today’s OR Nurse, April 1988, pp. 10-18.
4. “Challenge of Pain Management of the Perioperative Nurse”, 1989
Historical nursing articles. – 2003-2008.
“My Career”, 1945.
Curriculum Gloria developed for the Post Operative Nurses Course at St. Paul’s Hospital, the first in Canada to be granted university credits.
History of St. Paul’s Operating Room Post Basic Program by Gloria Stephens, 2012, updated 2015.
St. Paul’s Hospital operating room 6-month basic course.
Correspondence with Glennis Zilm
Two photographs
Newspaper photograph of BCORNG subcommittee.

Staples, Sara “Sally” (1926-2012)

Staples (nee Matties), Sara “Sally” (1926-2012)

See Sara Staples Fonds 27
See Oral History Files, Fonds 18, Series 3, Subseries 8

Sara “Sally” Staples was born in Siberia, Russia. After graduation in 1953 from St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver she started work at St. Paul’s in the medical ward, subsequently holding positions of increasing responsibility in which she contributed to changes and improvement in the quality of patient care.

She helped plan and design the first Intensive and Coronary Care Unit in the province in 1966. Her development of the extended work day and the master rotation concept greatly influenced nursing in BC. She became Supervisor of Critical Care Areas and Senior Director of Nursing Operations from 1982 to 1986. She was also involved with labour relations and contract negotiations, participating on a number of committees.

On her retirement July 1, 1986 she received the RNABC Award of Excellence in Nursing Administration. She describes her nursing philosophy: “To be a good nurse, first and foremost you must enjoy working with people. I see technology as a tool which enables the nurse to do a better job.”

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical Information Profile
“Nursing in Fore in Times of Change”. Letter from E.J. McGraf to Staples February 17, 1986.
Letter from Dwight Peretz to Staples, March 3, 1986.
Letter from Peter McAllister to Staples, February 12, 1986.
Letter from Margaret Reith to Staples, April 16, 1986.
Copy of obituary with a photograph
Page from CRNBC Memorial Book.
2 photographs

Stanton, Sheila

Stanton (nee Creeggan), Sheila

Sheila graduated from the Toronto General School of Nursing in 1951, and received her BSN from the University of Windsor in 1965 and her MSN from the University of Western Ontario in 1970. She held nursing positions in Ontario before being hired as a teacher at the University of Western Ontario in 1970. In 1975 she was hired as an Associate Professor at UBC’s School of Nursing.

Sheila believes that the role of the nurse has progressed from being caregiver to a skilled technician. The nurse has become increasingly a health educator and councilor, and thus more involved with decision making.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical Information Profile
Biographical release form
“Names”, The Canadian Nurse, December 1975, p. 36.
Transcript of on oral history interview, November 12, 1993. Describes her experience as a faculty member during the Muriel Uprichard and Marilyn Willman years.

Splane, Verna (1914-2015)

Splane, Verna (nee Huffman) (1914-2015)

See OH175

Verna Splanes’s recognition for her work in international nursing has included being appointed (with her husband Richard) as an Officer of the Order of Canada. She also received honorary degrees from Queens, St. Francis Xavier and the University of British Columbia, along with numerous other awards for her work in Canada and throughout the world in the health field.

She was born in Peterborough, Ontario, where she received her initial training. She later received her BSc in nursing from Columbia University and her Master’s of Public Health from the University of Michigan. Her career in the public service of Canada culminated with her being appointed Principal Nursing Officer and adviser to the Deputy Minister of National Health and Welfare. She also worked extensively with the World Health Organization, serving as an adviser to governments in the Caribbean, British Guyana, and Libya.

On her retirement in 1985 she embarked with her husband on a tour of fifty countries to examine their public health policies. The result was Chief Nursing Officer Positions in National Ministries of Health: Focal Points for Nursing Leadership. Maria Salmon, Director of the Lillian Carter Center for International Nursing, states that because of her, “government chief nursing officers are having a greater favorable impact on the health of their peoples”. She was a great advocate for history of nursing and was an honorary life member of the BC History of Nursing Society

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical Information Profile
Biographical Summary
Curriculum Vitae
Biographical Sketch
Biographical information
“Names”, The Canadian Nurse (1972), 68 (9), 54-55.
Notice of citation, The Canadian Nurse, May 1975, p. 41.
“Splane Honored by Queens University”, RNABC News, October 1980, p. 18.
“Fashioning the Future”, Presented at the Canadian Association of University Schools of Nursing, June 1-3, 1983.
Invitation, 1996.
Program for UBC Convocation, May 1996.
Letter accepting invitation to give Marion Woodward lecture, May 18, 1996.
“International Nursing: Advancing from a Creditable Past to a Challenging Future” Marion Woodward Lecture, October 24, 1996.
Thorne, Sally, “Another Award for Verna Splane”, HON News, 19, No. 1, p. 3.
“Chief Nursing Officer Positions in National Ministries of Health: Focal Points for Nursing Leadership”, by Verna Splane and Richard Splane.
Nomination for Honorary Membership in the History of Nursing Professional Practice Group, April 10, 1997, with photocopy of certificate.
Yvonne Zacharias, “International Public Health Nurse Always Took Plunge”, The Vancouver Sun, June 5, 2003, p. B6.
“An Afternoon of Dialogue and Reflection on the Remarkable Nursing Career of
Verna Huffman Splane”, November 22, 2004, University of British Columbia.
[On Her Ninetieth Birthday], History of Nursing News, January 2005, p. 1.
Dr. Sally Thorne, “Pioneering Policy”, Touchpoints, UBC School of Nursing, January 2005, pp. 1, 4.
“A Commitment to Global Citizenship”, Rpt. From Touchpoints, July 2008, p. 7.
Verna Huffman Splane ,“Glimpses of a Career in Public Health and International Nursing” by Verna Huffman Splane. “The Caribbean Years 1959-1962”. With annotations.
“Canada’s First Chief Nurse Turns 100”, The Canadian Nurse, November 2014, p.20.
“Dr. Verna Splane: The First Century”
Obituary
Memorial Service program
“A Strong Legacy,” CNA Now, January 2015, p. 20.
2 CDs. Contents unidentified.Two videotapes of UBC round table, November 22, 2004. Transferred to video collection as Video 14 and Video 15..
Note to Sheila Zerr, May 3, 2005
Zilm, Glennis, “Verna Splane Honoured”, Nurses’ News, March 1996, p. 3.

Smith, Rosalind (1920-1990)

See Oral History files, Fonds 18, Series 3, Subseries 8

Rosalind Smith had a major impact on the quality of children’s care. She received her RN from St. Paul’s Hospital in 1949, where she worked in pediatric nursing until 1954. She completed her BA in nursing at McGill (1956) and became Director of Nursing at the Montreal Children’s Hospital from 1956 to 1976, and subsequently at the BC Children’s Hospital in Vancouver until 1982.

Contents of Biographical File

Nomination to the CNA Memorial Book.

Smith, Alice Katherine (1910-1998)

See Oral History Files, Fonds 18, Series 3, Subseries 8

Through her work with the Manitoba Department of Health and 25 years with the federal government, Alice Smith implemented programs that led to major improvements in health care for Canadian aboriginals, especially in the north. Her successful efforts to decrease maternal and infant mortality and reduce the incidence of tuberculosis led to her being awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Ottawa in 1975.

Her RN from the Winnipeg General Hospital (1933) and a certificate in public health nursing from the University of Toronto (1938) was followed by a BA in nursing education from Columbia in 1950 and her Master’s in Public Health from Yale in 1957. In 1948 she was asked by the Canadian Nurses’ Association to travel to Britain to study the effects of Britain’s new national health insurance plan on nursing.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical Information Profile
Nomination to the CNA Memorial Book
Photograph
“Information for a possible obit notice”

Sloan, Harriet (1917-2016)

Sloan, Harriet (Hallie) J.T. (1917-2016)

“Hallie” graduated from Vancouver General Hospital School of Nursing in 1940. Harriet was awarded the Order of Canada in 2003 for her work with the RCAMC from 1942 to 1968. During the war she served in a number of venues in Europe, and participated in the liberation of Belgium and the Netherlands. She choose to remain in the military and rose to the rank of Matron-in Chief of the Canadian Forces Medical Services. Hallie worked as a general duty nurse, in the OR, and in family clinics in bases across Canada. From 1954 to 1956 she returned to Germany with the NATO forces.

After retiring, on the invitation of Dr. Helen Mussallem, she joined the staff of the Canadian Nurses Association as CNA Co-ordinator for the 14th Quadrennial Congress of ICN. In 1970 she was appointed CNA Nursing Co-ordinator. She saw the ending of apprenticeship training and the professionalization of nursing education as a major improvement in nursing and was a strong supporter of the Nursing Sisters Association of Canada. Callie received several awards during her lifetime such as the Legion of Honour in 2015.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical Information Profile
Greenfield, Nathan M., “Always at the Ready”, MacLean’s, June 16, 2003, pp. 65-66.
Photograph
Letter from Sloan to Janet Gormick, September 2, 2005.
Obituary, Globe and Mail, January 30, 2016.s
“Order of Canada to Hallie Sloan”, CAHN Newsletter, 17, No. 1 (Spring 2004), 3-4.
Newspaper photograph, Vancouver Sun, May 4, 2005, p. A15.
Newspaper photograph with Betty Brown and Paula Flynn, September 14, 2007.

Slaughter, Dorothy (1911-1993)

Slaughter, Dorothy (nee Tate) (1911-1993)

See Dorothy Slaughter Fonds 8
See Oral History files, Fonds 18, Series 3, Subseries 8. Audiocassette tape available AU- 0016.

Dorothy Emeline Tate graduated from the Vancouver General Hospital School of Nursing in 1932, and received her nursing degree from the University of British Columbia in 1933. The following year she gained experience in tuberculosis nursing at the Vancouver General Hospital and at a tuberculosis clinic. In 1943, she obtained a Master’s degree in Public Health Administration from Columbia University.

In 1944 she was appointed Director of Public Health Nursing, and worked to implement a uniform salary schedule for all provincial health nurses, a standard uniform for staff, policy manuals of approved written procedures, and a simplified record system. Her tuberculosis manual, the first major manual of its kind, was followed by an information kit with an up-to-date guide on venereal diseases.

Her marriage in 1948 to Walter Slaughter led to her move to Saudi Arabia for four years. Upon her return to Vancouver, Dorothy returned to a staff position at the Boundary Health Unit, Surrey. She was active in the RNABC, serving as chair of a committee struck to develop a booklet on the Association. She co-chaired the RNABC Committee on Public Relations from 1958-1961, and chaired this committee from 1962-63. After her retirement, she remained active in many community groups.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical release form
Biographical referral form
Biographical Information Profile
Shelley Nicholl, “Scholarship Leads to UWC Devotion”, Surrey News Leader, November 9, 1986, p. A19. Also published in The Peace Arch News as, “Area UWC a Real Going Concern”, November 12, 1986, pp. A22, ?.
Frank Bucholtz, “Foundation Wants to Help.”
“Nurse Honored by Staff”.
Nomination for RNABC Memorial Book.
Biography entered in RNABC Memorial Book.
Letter from niece Dorothy Meyerof to Helen Niskala, March 10, 1996.
Letter from Ethel Warbinek to Dorothy Meyerof, March 22, 1996.
Monica M. Green, “Through the Years with Public Nursing”, The Canadian Public Health Association, 1984. Includes references to Slaughter.
Graduation photograph, 1933. On CD.
Photograph
Transcript of oral history interview April 4, 1988.

Shore, Helen (1925-2020)

Shore, Helen Louise (1925-2020)

See Pages of History, Fonds 18, Series 3, Subseries 9, File 2

Helen has made significant contributions to the development of the nursing community. She received her RN from VGH in 1946, her BSN from the UBC School of Nursing in 1961, and a Master’s of Arts in Adult Education in 1971. Her initial work as a staff nurse in a psychiatric ward was followed by brief periods of work in Bermuda and Calgary, and longer periods at the Royal Columbian Hospital at New Westminster and as a Public Health Nurse for the Vancouver Health Department. From 1965 to 1990 she was a faculty member at the UBC School of Nursing.

Helen was involved with many volunteer activities and professional organizations, most recently as President from 1992-1994 of the History of Nursing Professional Practice Group. In 1972 she received a Woodward Foundation award to travel to England to survey health needs of the elderly, and services available. In 1975 she received a Merit Award for excellence in teaching and in 1990 the Nursing Division’s Distinguished Alumnae Award. Later awards included the UBC Nursing Partnership Award in 2013 and 2016, in recognition of the UBC Faculty of Applied Science 100^th year, the Dean’s Medal. Helen is an honorary life member of the BC History of Nursing Society

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical Information Profile
UBC Curriculum Vitae
UBC SON Project oral history transcript October 31, 1993
Articles by Helen Shore
1. “Adopters and Laggards”, The Canadian Nurse (July 1972), pp. 36-38.
2. “Pioneering Spirit Lives On”, Nursing BC, January-February 1993, pp. 22-23.
3. “Frances Redmond: A Pioneer in Community Health in Vancouver”, Canadian Journal of Public Health, January-February 1993, p. 13.
4. “Emily Susan Patterson: Vancouver’s First Nurse”, B.C. News (Summer 1993), pp. 20-21.
5. “Cottage Hospitals in British Columbia”, BC Historical News (Fall 2000), 33 (4), 4-17.
Remembrance Day program, November 11, 1998. UBC address on the history of military nursing in Canada, given by Helen Shore, with two colour photographs.
Alumni Association of the University of British Columbia, “Overview of Helen Shore’s Professional Career”. Presented March 1990 on the occasion of Helen receiving the Nursing Division’s Distinguished Alumnae Award.
“Helen Shore Endowment Fund Supports Chronic Illness Research”, Touchpoints, July 2003, p. 6.
Jennifer M.L. Stephens, “A Profile of Helen Shore, UBC Nursing Leader and Patron”, UBC Nursing Student Journal 2 (1), pp. 12-14.
Transcript of oral history interview, October 31, 1993
Helen Shore: Nursing Pioneer Leaves Bequest to School of Nursing: UBC Gift and Estate Planning,
Photograph
On her 75^th birthday, 2000.
Biographical information in Health and Home Care newsletter, Spring 2016.
Correspondence with Sheila Zerr. – 2005.
Pages of history information

Schamborzki, Inge (1951-

Inge Schamborzki was born in Montreal and received her BA, Master’s and Phd from McGill. After work in a Montreal Children’s Hospital, she came to Vancouver where she was vice-president of nursing at VGH from 1984-1993. She was a sessional lecturer at UBC SON in 1994-1995, then worked for the North Shore Health Region, first as a Transition Manager, then CEO and Executive Director Health and Home Care Society of BC.

Inge was active in many professional organizations, becoming President of RNABC from 1990-1993. She received a Nursing Research and Nursing Administration award from RNABC. During her work in pediatrics she became especially impressed with children’s and families’ coping skills.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical Information Profile
Biographical release form

Saunders, Ruth (1923-2002)

See Ruth Saunders Fonds 21

Ruth Saunders was born in Camrose, Alberta, and grew up in different regions of British Columbia. During the war she volunteered with the Canadian Women’s Army Corps, serving with Kitchener, Ontario’s CWAC Military Band No. 3.

After the war she attended the Royal Jubilee Hospital School of Nursing in Victoria, graduating in early 1950. She worked for about a year at the United Church of Canada Home Mission Hospital in Cold Lake, Alberta, then joined the Church’s Missionary Deaconess School and was assigned to the United Church of Canada’s Home Mission Hospital in Manning, Alberta. After taking a short course in the Korean language at Yale University, she travelled to Korea as a nurse missionary for the United Church, working as a public health nurse in the hill country in southern Korea. She was particularly involved with the care of Koreans suffering from leprosy.

She became Nursing Administrator of the United Church’s newly built Wonju United Christian Hospital from 1955 to 1989. Here she developed a school of nursing, which is now associated with Yonsei University. She retired to live in Victoria and later Chemainus.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical Sketch
Time Line
Letter of Nomination to CNA Memorial Book.
Ruth Saunders, “Help! Help!”, The Missionary Monthly, February 1959, pp. 5-6.
Page of History for BC History of Nursing Society
Abstract from Masters’ ‘Thesis
Obituary. Campbell River Mirror, May 8, 2002.
Ten photographs: 4 col. and 6 b&w of Ruth Saunders by herself and with various people, including with her father, at her graduation, and in Korea. Large print of her father includes notes on reverse. Scanned by Glennis Zilm.
CD—BC History of Nursing Society Archives. Files created by Glennis Zilm, 2011.

Saunders, Helen (1917-2014)

Helen graduated from the VGH School of Nursing, in 1939 and from UBC School of Nursing in 1940, specializing in Public Health. She took a Post Graduate Obstetrics course in Chicago which brought her into intimate contact with poverty in the ghetto. She joined the army as a nursing sister in World War II where she served on the home front. A postgraduate course in OR nursing and in teaching and supervision led to an 11-year appointment as a clinical nursing instructor VGH School of Nursing.

In 1961 she took her Masters’ degree in Nursing Education at the University of Washington, and moved to Victoria BC to become In- Service Education Supervisor at Royal Jubilee Hospital. She retired in 1975 to care for her elderly parents. In retirement, she was active in improving health care and was a contributor to the completion of a new patient tower at Royal Jubilee Hospital

Contents of Biographical File

Biography from “1940’s Amazing Alumni Stories” on Internet.
E-mail correspondence
Biography

Russell, Winnifred Emily (1905-2001)

Russell (nee Large), Winnifred Emily (1905-2001)

Winnifred attended Vernon Jubilee Hospital. She worked at various BC hospitals, including Bulkley Valley Hospital in Smithers, Grace Memorial Hospital in Vancouver and Prince Rupert Hospital. Involvement in the Prince George Chapter of RNABC and the Red Cross Corps was “very important” to her. The transcript of her interview describes early life and many of the challenges of nursing in early days in the interior of BC. She left nursing after her marriage but returned to work as a nurse from 1940 to 1957.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical Information Profile
Transcript of interviews with Russell, November 1988.
Photograph

Runka, Celia (1938-

Runka (nee Zitko), Celia (1938-

See also oral history files fonds 18, Series 3, Subseries 8, AU0H32, CDOH32

Celia received a pediatric award on receiving her RN from the Royal Columbian School of Nursing in 1960. She worked primarily as a home care nurse while raising her two young children. She feels nursing has become more technical, with less emphasis on patient care.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical Information Profile
“Memorable Experiences”
Photograph

Rumen, Nina (1927-2022)

Rumen, Nina (1927-

See Nina Rumen Fonds 12
See Memorial Nursing Portrait Collection Fonds 18, Series 3, Subseries 9, File 7
See Pages of History Fonds 18, Series 3, Subseries 9, File 2

Nina Rumen was born in what was then Poland, and has since become Belarus. In 1930, she brought her mother to Canada to join her father, who had immigrated earlier to the Fernie/ Cranbrook region of British Columbia.

She graduated from St. Paul’s Hospital School of Nursing in Vancouver in 1949 and joined the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps (RCAMC) in 1951. Her military career took her to Churchill, Manitoba (1952-54) when Canada’s north was opening up. From here she went to Isherholm, Germany with the British Army of the Rhine and then to Lahr, Germany. She served with NATO from 1970-72.

Nina completed her Bachelor of Nursing from the University of Toronto. Following retirement from the services, she moved to Vancouver, where she worked on short-term contracts with various agencies. She is a great supporter of the BC History of Nursing Society and is an Honouary Life Member.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical information
Article from BC History of Nursing Group newsletter (2003)
“Nina Rumen—Our New Honorary Member”
Photograph
Notes on her life and other subjects
Thank you note and card to Sheila Zerr on occasion of her 80^th birthday.
“Honouring Nina Rumen”, BC History of Nursing Society News, December 2009.
Photograph

Rothwell, Emily Sue (1943-2013)

Sue received her BSc from Cornell University and her MSN from the University of California, where she also studied for her Phd. She was recruited by Dr. Muriel Uprichard to teach in the School of Nursing at UBC from 1975-1985, and while here also worked as Assistant Deputy Director for Nursing and Patient Care Services at the Cancer Control Agency of BC. She continued to work in various senior positions for the Ministry of Health, finally as the Director of Performance Monitoring and Measurement and Acting Director of the Aboriginal Health Policy Branch.

She was the author or co-author of twelve articles or abstracts published in professional journals, association newsletters, and textbooks. She states that being President of RNABC 1977-79 and 1986-1988 was a highlight of her career.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical Information Profile
Biographical Release form
Curriculum Vitae
Letter from Rothwell to Janet Gormick, May 20, 1997.
Biographical information with e-mails on the occasion of her death.
Rothwell, Sue (nd). Cancer: Advances in prevention, screening and diagnosis. 10-14.
Obituary. The Times Colonist, September – Oct 5, 2013.
Photograph
Biographical information with e-mails on the occasion of her death.
“Cancer: Advances in Prevention, Screening and Diagnosis,” pp. 10-14, nd.
Obituary, The Times Colonist, September-October 5, 2013

Rossiter, Edna (1905-1988)

See Oral History files, Fonds 18, Series 3, Subseries 8

Rossiter emigrated from England to Canada in 1925, where she studied nursing at the Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria. After working as night supervisor at the RJH from 1932, she enlisted in 1941 in the RCAMC and was principal matron of Pacific Command in army hospitals on the west coast of BC. In 1944 she was appointed principal matron of nos. 12 and 24 Canadian General Hospitals in England and Belgium, becoming Major Rossiter, and was awarded the Royal Red Cross, First Class.

After the war, she became Nursing Consultant for the Department of Veteran Affairs, and matron and later Director of Nursing at Shaughnessy Hospital from 1948. She was active and influential in all nursing affairs, becoming President of the RNABC from 1957-1961 and president of the CNA from 1962 to 1964. After her retirement from Shaughnessy in 1968, she became active in the Red Cross. On July 26, 1979 she received the Red Cross Florence Nightingale medal in honour of her devotion to the sick and wounded in difficult and perilous situations, the 14th Canadian to receive the award since its creation in 1912.

Contents of Biographical File

Biography
Department of Veterans Affairs Corner, The Canadian Nurse (1946), 42 (5), 428.
Recently appointed DVA Matrons, The Canadian Nurse (1946), 42 (4), 339.
“Nursing Profiles”, The Canadian Nurse (1948), 44 (1), 931.
“BC Nurse Honored”, RNABC News, July-August 1979, p. 17.
“Address of the President”, News Bulletin, July 1958, pp. 2-5.
“Address of the President”, News Bulletin, July 1960, pp. 4-6.
Chuck Bayley, “One of Us: Edna Rossiter Red Cross Florence Nightingale Winner”, Pioneer News, p. 5.
Miscellaneous notes and correspondence
“No Complaints from Wounded Says Former Jubilee Matron”, nd.
Edna Rossiter 1932
Notes on staff retirement dates
Text and handwritten notes for speech at the last graduation of the Royal Jubilee Hospital School of Nursing, September 5, 1982.
Funeral program
Commemorative brochure
Notes from Alan Rossiter and obituary
Photograph. From Ruth McIlraith

Ross, Florence Mary (1919-1995)

Florence Mary graduated from the VGH School of Nursing and UBC, and received her Masters’ in Public Health from the University of Michigan. She worked for public health in Burnaby and Vancouver for over thirty years, developing support services for women, seniors, and recently released psychiatric patients. She lobbied governments for wheelchair accessible sidewalks and public building access.

She was a devoted member of the Anglican church, raising money by thrift sales which was largely devoted to social development. She was a major contributor to her church and its Outreach and mission work, Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund, and a tireless worker and fundraiser for OXFAM

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical Notes by the Reverend Thomas Anthony
Program for Memorial Service

Ross (nee King), Betty (1943- )

Betty Ross received her BSN from the University of Victoria in 1991 and her MSN from the University of British Columbia in 1998. She was a clinical nurse with management and nurse educator experience and clinical expertise in the care of patients in neuroscience, respiratory science, critical care, and emergency settings. She received an RNABC Award of Excellence in Nursing Practice in 2003 and an Excellence in Thoracic Surgery Nursing Award in 2004.

During the late 1970s she was involved in dialogues at Vancouver General Hospital which focused on giving nurses a stronger voice in the management of their profession, which brought them into conflict with senior management and the board of trustees. Lack of sufficient skilled nurses to give high quality patient care became the subject of an independent inquiry which resulted in the nurses getting most of what they wished. The Board of Trustees was dismissed, and sixty additional nurses and other key personnel were hired. Ross saw this as “A good example of what a group of dedicated nurses can do when their profession is being devalued and roles not respected”.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical (Information Profile
Curriculum Vitae
Report on VGH by Peter Bazowski, Public Administrator, October 16, 1978.
Message from L.V. Truitt, President of VGH, to VGH employees, April 26, 1978.
Action Plan, nd.
RNABC Fact Sheet, VGH, September 12. 1977-May 26, 1978.
Letter to Mrs. B. Lantz from Dr. F.P. Patterson, Head, Dept. of Surgery, October 13, 1977.
VGH. Strawman, Clinical Nursing Structure, September 29, 1976.
What’s Wrong at VGH, nd.
Letters from the Committee of Concerned Nurses to Mrs. D. Babcock and L. Babcock, April 19, 1978. Includes list of nurses.
Letter to Betty King from Mrs. D. Babcock, May 1, 1978.
Memo to Dr. G.B. Thompson from Betty King, June 28, 1978.
Letter to Dr. F.P. Patterson from G.B. Thompson, August 3, 1978.
Letter to Dr. F.P. Patterson from Betty King, August 2, 1978.
Letter to Betty King from Dr. F.P. Patterson, August 4, 1978.
Letter to Mrs. C.Y. Lim from Dr. F.P. Patterson, July 17, 1978.
Hand written notes from meetings, April-May 1978.
“Nurses Seek Inquiry into VGH Situation”, May 12, 1978.
“A Summary of Strivings to Control Conditions of Nursing Practice”, nd.
Letter to Mr. Milton Wong, Chairman of Board of VGH, from the Committee of Concerned Nurses, May 5, 1978.
Letter to CKVU from Betty King, June 12, 1978.
Letter from the Committee of Concerned Nurses to VGH Nursing Staff and Colleagues, May 5, 1978.
List of Nurses
“VGH Finally Boils Over”, RNABC News, August-September 1978, pp. 6-7.
“Minister Acts on VGH Problems”, RNABC News, November 1978, pp. 3-5.
“Nurses Fight to Improve Care at BC’s Major Referral Hospital”, RNABC News, June-July 1978, pp. 3-7.
Newspaper clippings:
1. “Three More Senior Nurses Resign”, Vancouver Sun, August 9, 1978
2. “Another Nurse Resigns”, nd
3. “Another VGH Nurse Resigns Predicting More Likely Soon”, nd
4. “Neurosurgery Head Nurse Quits VGH Post”, Vancouver Sun, July 28, 1978.
5. “Problems at VGH Blamed on Summer Staff Shortage”, Vancouver Sun, July 27, 1978.
6. Andrea Maitland, “Air of Calm Slowly Returns to Strife-torn VGH”, Vancouver Sun, nd
7. “Hospital ‘Routinely’ Closes 158 Beds”
8. “Shortages Delay Surgery, Says Top Nurse Who Quit”, Vancouver Sun, July 26, 1978.
9. “Resignations Pile Up at ‘Disastrous’ VGH, Vancouver Sun, August 9, 1978, A1-A2.
10. “’Horse Sense’ Has Tamed VGH”, Vancouver Sun, August 26, 1978, pp. A1- A2.
“VGH Nurses Speak Out”, Kinesis, July-August 1978, p. 4.
Two photographs

Roblin, Olive, (nee Wilson) (1916-

Olive Wilson entered the nursing program at the Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria, graduating in 1937. In 1941 she joined the Royal Canadian Naval Medical Service, and was one of three nurses to staff the hospital at HMCS Naden in Esquimalt. In December 1944 she was posted overseas to take charge of the Canadian naval hospital Niobe at Greenock, Scotland.

She was assistant matron at the DVA Hospital in Victoria from 1947 to 1950, then from 1950 until her retirement in 1974 she was on the staff at RJH, first as a teacher, then in the Nursing Service Department. In 1953, during an outbreak in polio, she assisted the Victoria Medical Society in a program to immunize the general public. She received a Canada Centennial Medal in 1967.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical information from The Royal Jubilee Hospital School of Nursing 1891-1982 by A. Pearson
Four photographs with accompanying information, including e-mail from Bud Squair.

Ritchie, Diana (1925-2007)

Diana obtained her RN from St. Paul’s Hospital in 1950 and her BSN from McGill in 1964. She held general duty positions at various hospitals in BC, California and Hawaii, was an instructor at. Paul’s School of Nursing from 1956-1964, and held administrative positions at St. Paul’s from 1964-1972. She ended her distinguished career as the Director of Nursing and Patient Care at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Vancouver, winning many awards. She also was an active volunteer as a Serving Sister with St. John’s Ambulance.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical Information Profile
Biographical release form
Note to Helen Niskala from “Myrtle” on Ritchie’s death.
Obituary
Program for requiem mass
Four photographs of Ritchie
Nine photographs of her certificates and medals.

Richmond, Mary (1920-2002)

See Mary Richmond Fonds 13
See Oral History Files, Fonds 18, Series 3, Subseries 8
See Pages of History Fonds 18, Series 3, Subseries 9, File 2

Mary Richmond graduated from Vancouver General Hospital in 1943, later attending McGill University to obtain a diploma in teaching and supervision, and a BSN. In 1951, she became the Director of Nursing Education at the Royal Jubilee Hospital (RJH), Victoria, where she initiated programs in the treatment of tuberculosis, public health, and psychiatric nursing.

After receiving her MA from Columbia University, she returned to RJH as director of nursing from 1957 to 1960. In 1960, Mary Richmond left RJH to become an assistant professor of nursing at McGill. She returned to VGH as Director of Nursing from 1964 to 1973, where she was active in forming the Council of Hospitals with the Schools of Nursing, a committee of representatives from all the nursing schools in BC.

In 1974, Mary Richmond returned to Victoria as Director of Educational Resources at RJH. From 1976 to 1983, she was adjunct professor at UVic, while retaining her job at the RJH. For her work with the university’s School of Nursing, she was made an honorary member of its alumnae association. The Mary Lewis Richmond bursary was established by the University of Victoria in 1998.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical Information Profile and release form.
Biography from “1940’s Amazing Alumni Stories” on Internet
“Mary L. Richmond”, Undated. Possibly from the RNABC News.
Richmond, Mary, “Trends in Nursing Practice and the Preparation of Nursing Personnel.” Paper presented at the British Columbia Conference on Nursing, RNABC, April 1958.
“Names”, The Canadian Nurse, March 1975, p. 44.
Pearson, A. “Mary Richmond” in The Royal Jubilee Hospital School of Nursing 1891-1982, by Anne Pearson and the Alumnae Association, pp. 157-160.
Letter from E. Warbinek, B.C. HON PPG to Rob Calnan, October 11, 1994, re Mary Richmond.
Letter from Mary Richmond to Ethel Warbinek, January 24, 1993.
Honorary Membership, B.C. History of Nursing PPG April 6, 1995.
Mary Richmond. RNABC Memorial Book, 2003
Photograph
Obituaries
“Mary Richmond”, from The Canadian Nurse, 1952.
“City Nurse New Chief at McGill.”
Note to Sheila Zerr regarding Mary Richmond display
Biographical information
Memorial Service Program
Memorial Tribute

Redmond, Sister Frances Dalrymple (1854-1932)

See Memorial Nursing Portrait Collection Fonds 18, Series 3, Subseries 9, File 7

Frances Byron was born in England, and trained as a nurse and midwife at Laval University in Montreal. She was an Anglican Deaconess who came to Vancouver in 1887. She and Father Clinton founded St Luke’s Home, a seven-room and general ward hospital. She instituted a school of nursing and supervised practical work.

She dispatched nurses from this hospital to various parts of the province, and provided nurses when smallpox broke out at Vernon and Gibson’s Landing. She also took charge of the city isolation hospital during an outbreak of small pox. She opened a soup kitchen in Market Hall adjacent to Carnegie Library and was a member of the VON planning committee. Frances Street in Strathcona, Vancouver, is named in her honour.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical information in support of nomination to the RNABC Memorial Book.
Photograph
Davis, Chuck. (2011). Sister Franceds Redmond. Vancouver History. Copy

Ratsoy, Bernadet “Bernie” (1936-2009)

Ratsoy (nee Kiss), Bernadet “Bernie” (1936-2009)

See Bernadet Ratsoy fonds 17

After graduation from the Edmonton General Hospital in September 1957, where she was class president, Bernie spent a brief time in Spokane before moving to Edmonton where she practiced obstetric nursing at the Misericordia and Edmonton General Hospitals until 1960.

Beginning in 1966-1967 she was clinical Instructor in Obstetrics in St. Paul’s Hospital School of Nursing in Vancouver. As Coordinator of Obstetric Nursing from 1968 to 1979, she developed and implemented the first family-centered maternity care program in BC, and was co-director of the Vancouver Perinatal Health Project.

After graduation with a BSN in 1968, she became Clinical Coordinator at St. Paul’s Hospital until 1979. In 1981 she completed a Masters’ Degree in Health Services Planning at UBC. As Vice-President of Nursing at St. Paul’s from April 1979 to November 1989 she was responsible for assuring quality of care in a department of over one thousand professional and non-professional staff. From 1983 to 1985 she was also president of the Registered Nurses of British Columbia. From 1991 to 2002 she was Associate Dean of Health Sciences at the BC Institute of Technology.

She was nominated for a YWCA Woman of Distinction award in 1988 and received the RNABC Recognition Award in 2002 for valuable contributions to the nursing profession, as well as a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Health CARE Leaders’ Association of BC in 2003.

Ratsoy’s many accomplishments include the development of a family-centered maternity care program and the initiation of a three-year prenatal health research project. At St. Paul’s she was responsible for infection control, ambulatory services, obstetrics, rehabilitation and pediatrics. She responded rapidly and effectively to the AIDS epidemic in Vancouver, developing nursing care and staff protection programs. She has had over fifteen publications in books and recognized journals, and was often invited for public speaking engagements.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical Information Profile with signed release
Biographical information by Valerie Oglor, 2009.
Obituary, The Vancouver Sun, October 9, 2009.
Eulogy by Edward Ratsoy and Inge Schamborzki, presented by Inge Schamborzki
Funeral program
Ratsoy, Bernadette. (1983). Our links with CNA. RNABC News, December,1983, p.4.
Ratsoy, Bernadette. (1983). What does RNABC do for me? RNABC News, October 1983, p. 3
Ratsoy, Bernadette. (1983). The power of collective action. RNABC News. September 1983, p. 3.
Beaufoy, Ann & Ratsoy, Bernadette. Man versus microbe: A case for the infection control nurse. The Canadian Nurse. December 1980, 30-32.
Photograph

Ranta, Pauline (1914- 2010)

Ranta, (nee McMartin) Pauline Katharine (1914- 2010)

Pauline attended Kitsilano High School and graduated from VGH in 1938 and from UBC with a BASc (N) in 1939. She was a school nurse at Metropolitan Health Unit 3. The Lawrence E. and Pauline K. Ranta Memorial Fund was established at UBC.

Contents of Biographical File

“The Lunch Club Lives”. A collection of stories by nurses and former nurses, including “The Campbells” by Pauline Ranta.
Obituary Vancouver Sun
Photograph

Ransom (nee McLeod), Elsie “Rannie” (1896-2000)

See Oral History files, Fonds 18, Series 3, Subseries 8

Elsie was born in a log house on a ranch south of Kamloops. She graduated from St. Paul’s School of Nursing in 1927 and spent the next six years working at the Mayo General Hospital in the Yukon. She started to work at the Tranquille TB sanatorium in 1933, where she was supervisor on the second floor until its closure in 1958. She then transferred to the TB unit of the Provincial Mental Hospital at Essondale until her retirement in 1961.

After retirement, she continued private duty nursing at the Royal Inland Hospital. She later purchased a home on Little Shuswap Lake, then lived with her son in Williams Lake. In 1999, at the age of 95, she was made honorary parade marshal for the Williams Lake Stampede Parade. She was an avid sports fan, enjoyed making bread and preserves, and was skilled in handicrafts.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical Information Profile and photocopied photograph.
Nomination for the RNABC Memorial Book with photograph.
Two supporting letters from Glennis Zilm and Blanche Hanes, November 5, 2001 and January 29, 2002.
Correspondence from Ella Nicholson to Glennis Zilm, n.d..
Letter from Ransom’s daughter to Ella Nicholson
Poem, “Tranquille Sanitorium”
“Stampede Parade Marshal Elsie Ransom Passes at 104”, The Williams Lake Tribune, October 24, 2000, p. C3.
Biographical notes by Corine Erikson, St. Eugene School of Nursing.
“A Brief History” [Biographical Notes]
Photograph

Randal, Helen Louisa (1872-1963)

In the early years of this past century, Helen Randal was instrumental in legitimizing the profession of nursing in BC. From 1912 to 1916 she was superintendent of nurses at Vancouver General Hospital. She organized the Graduate Nurses Association of BC, the forerunner of RNABC, and through persistent lobbying achieved passage of the Registered Nurses Act in 1918.

From 1916 to 1924 she was editor and business manager of The Canadian Nurse. Her editorials were noted for “her unfailing humor and quick sense of the ridiculous”. Her call for the enforcement of a standard curriculum and regular inspection of schools led to the closure of many small BC Schools of Nursing that failed to meet educational standards.

In 1944 she received the Mary Agnes Snively Memorial Medal. After her retirement in 1941 she moved to Winnipeg, where she died at 91. The RNABC library has been named after her.

Contents of Biographical File

Nomination for CNA Memorial Book
Biographical information
“Helen Randal: A Woman for All Times”, RNABC News, May-June 1987, p. 10.
Editorial in The Canadian Nurse (1933), 24 (3), 124-126.
“A Fine Record”, The Canadian Nurse (1941), 37 (4), 257-258.
Fairley, Grace M. “Helen Randal”, The Canadian Nurse (1944), 40 (6), 390-391.
Randal, Helen, “Greetings from an Oldster,” The Canadian Nurse (1951) 47 (1), 11-12.
“RNABC Historical Development”, pp. 3-4.
“Greetings: Former Editors and Executive Secretaries”, The Canadian Nurse, March 1995, 51 (3), p. 177.
The Helen Randal Library: To Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of RNABC, RNABC News, May-June 1987, p. 11.
Biographical timeline
Photograph
Two photocopied photographs with information.

Proudfoot (nee Gilfillian), Dorothy Anna (1928-

In her varied career, Dorothy’s work from 1955 to 1957 transporting patients with the Saskatchewan Air Ambulance was among her most memorable. She received her nursing education at the St. Elizabeth Hospital School of Nursing from 1947 to 1950, and subsequently worked here in pediatrics. She nursed briefly at the Regina General Hospital, then from 1951 to 1955 as a nursing sister with the Royal Canadian Armed Medical Core.

After her work with the air ambulance, she married and moved to Edmonton where she worked as a Medical Claims Assessor. After some medical work in Rioja, Peru in 1962, where her husband was working on road construction, she returned to Canada to work at a variety of nursing and other positions. From 1971 to 1977 she worked in the Local Initiative Program in Kelowna, and from 1978 to 1988 in the Long Term Care Program. She enjoyed using her RN skills working in the community.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical information
Three photographs of Queen Elizabeth and Philip visiting Colonel Belcher Hospital in Calgary, 1951.
Brochure for Saskatchewan Air Ambulance Service
Three photographs from the Saskatchewan Air Ambulance Service, 1955-1957.
Newspaper articles on the Saskatchewan Air Ambulance Service, 1956.
Cartoons
Photograph of Home Care/Long Term Unit at South Okanagan Health Unit, including Dorothy Proudfoot, 1973. All identified.
Photograph

Pringle, Eden Lyall (1893-1918)

Eden Pringle was born in Scotland. Prior to joining the CAMC in May 1917, she served in the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force. She was assigned to the No. 3 Canadian Stationary Hospital in Doullens, France, which was situated in a 15^th century fortress. 93,000 casualties were treated here between March 21 and July 10, 1918.

On the night of May 30, 1918, the hospital sustained a direct hit. The entire operating room staff was killed instantly, including Nurse Pringle and A. McPherson, also a Canadian nurse. Pringle received the British War Medal and Victory Medal.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical notes
“Nurse Pringle Killed by a Shell”, Vancouver World, June 3, 1918, p. 2.
“Vancouver Nurse Victim of Bombs”, Vancouver Daily Province, June 3, 1918, p. 16.
“Heroines of Battle”, Vancouver Daily Province, June 5, 1918, 6.

Priestly, Dorothy (ca. 191- -1988)

See also oral history files fonds 18, Series 3, Subseries 8, AU0H31, CDOH36

After working as a hospital supervisor, Dorothy received her Diploma in Public Health Nursing in 1937, work to which she remained dedicated throughout her life. In 1937 she was the first school nurse to be hired by the Prince Rupert School Board, where she spent five years.

In 1942 she started work in Chilliwack, where she joined the newly formed Public Health Nursing Council for the Fraser Valley. From 1947 to 1949 she was President of this Council, and in 1947 became the first Public Health Nursing Supervisor to be appointed in the province, for the Central Vancouver Island Health Unit. She was noted as a competent supervisor and gracious lady.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical information
Photograph (1965)

Prentice, Sally Irene (1892-1982)

Sally Prentice was born in County Armagh, Ireland, and emigrated with her sister Elizabeth to Vancouver via New York. Four other sisters and one brother also immigrated to Canada. Sally worked at Sumas Hospital in the 1920s and 1930s and Santa Rosa Hospital in the early 1940s. While she never had children, she helped raise a number of nieces and nephews. At Christmas she and her sister Elizabeth competed with each other over who made the best shortbread.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical information

Powell (nee Armstrong), Margaret Jean (1925-

See Oral History Files, Fonds 18, Series 3, Subseries 8, AUOH40

Jean Armstrong received her RN from St. Paul’s School of Nursing in 1947. She worked in the Powell River Hospital until her marriage in 1949 when she took time out to raise her family, later returning to work part-time in a clinic. She considered nursing native Indian children a highlight of her career.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical Information Profile

Petch (nee Clunas), E.L. Ruth (1925-

After completing high school in 1943, Ruth took a nine-month course at the Infant Hospital on Haro Street to be a Nursery Aide. She took her nursing training at St. Paul’s Hospital from 1948 to 1950, and after brief employment at St. Paul’s and the Shaughnessy Veterans Hospital, moved to Kelowna to work at Kelowna General.

Subsequently, she took her public health certificate from UBC, and worked out of Kamloops and then the Gulf Islands. Much of her work was in the schools and at baby clinics. She also dealt with community problems and supervised the control of contagious diseases such as tuberculosis.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical Information Profile

Pennington, Marion (1910-1991)

Pennington (nee Miles), Marion (1910-1991)

Marion Pennington was born in Cranbrook, BC and graduated from VGH in 1932, receiving her degree in nursing from UBC in 1933.In 1943 she joined the RCAMC as home sister for the CWAC barracks in Washington, DC and worked for UNRRA in Germany until 1947 as nursing supervisor in camps for displaced persons.

Marion obtained her MA at Columbia University in 1949, and was appointed Assistant Director of the new School of Nursing at Dalhousie University. From 1952 to 1954 she was Director of the Teacher Training Program for graduate nurses in Ankara, Turkey under the auspices of WHO. She returned to Cranbrook where she was a school teacher from 1965 to 1971. She died October 27, 1991.

Contents of Biographical File

Biography
Article from The Canadian Nurse (November 1949), p. 836.
Photograph
Obituary

Payton, Phyllis (1909-2007)

Payton (nee Bond), Phyllis (1909-2007)

See Oral History Files, Fonds 18, Series 3, Subseries 8

Phyllis worked as a VON and Public Health nurse, mostly in the Lower Mainland. Her graduation from VGH in 1932 was delayed a year because of her being hospitalized for three months for contracting diphtheria. She received her certificate in Public Health Nursing from UBC in 1936. She worked as a staff and relief nurse, mostly in the Lower Mainland, until her retirement in 1974.

Highlights of her career include her participation in a study which showed the benefit of VON services. She also dealt successfully with an outbreak of typhoid by setting up effective containment measures to ensure the safety of the water supply.

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Biographical Information Profile
Biography

Paulson, Esther (1906-2004)

See Esther Paulson fonds 3 and OH147
See Pages of History Fonds 18, Subseries 9, Files 2

Esther Paulson was born in New Westminster on April 9. She graduated from the Royal Columbian Hospital School of Nursing in 1928 and began her lifelong interest in tuberculosis as a staff nurse in the Tuberculosis building at the Royal Columbian Hospital. In 1940, she joined the Metropolitan Health Committee in Vancouver, and in 1942 was on loan to the Division of Tuberculosis Control. One year later, she was appointed Director of Nursing for the province, overseeing nursing care for patients in Vancouver, Victoria, and Tranquille. Her career in TB nursing continued until she retired in 1966 from being Director of Nursing at Pearson Hospital.

After retirement, Esther remained an active member of the Registered Nurses’ Association of BC, holding offices of secretary, Vice President and President (1951-1953). She received the Centennial medal in 1967 for her contributions to the control of tuberculosis in Canada, and an Honorary Life Membership in the Canadian Lung Association for her leadership in the advancement of TB nursing in Canada. Esther published numerous articles on TB nursing and professional issues in journals such as The Canadian Nurse and RNABC News.

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Biographical Information Profile
Transcript of interview with Irene Goldstone February 21, 1987.
Transcript of interview by Ethel Warbinek October 1992.
Transcript of interview by Ethel Warbinek, February 3, 1993.
Biographical information, UBC School of Nursing History Project, March 1993.
Autobiography, 1993.
Letter from Mabel Gray to Paulson, August 16, 1933.
Letter congratulating Paulson for winning $20 Provincial Board of Health Prize in nursing.
Letter from Esther Paulson August 7, 1940 with reply by Amy Edwards, Supervisor Welfare Field Service.
Letter from Alice Wright June 29, 1953.
Letter from Dr. Taylor, Deputy Minister of Health, June 24, 1966.
Awards received:
1. Photocopied UBC diploma in Public Health nursing, 1934.
2. Provincial Board of Health Prize in Nursing, 1934.
3. Photocopy of Paulson notice of award of a Canadian Centennial Medal, July1, 1967.
4. Photocopies of Honorary Life Membership Certificate, letter, and dedication from the Canadian Tuberculosis Association, 1968.
5. Honorary life memberships, RNABC History of Nursing Group, April 19, 1994, and the Canadian Tuberculosis Association.
Articles by Paulson
1. “Private Duty in British Columbia,” The Canadian Nurse 30 (7) (1936), 317.
2. “The Scope and Challenge of Tuberculosis Nursing”, The Canadian Nurse, 42, (1) January 1946, 29-32.
3. _________, Stalker, H.S. and Nichol, W.J., “A Tuberculosis Minimal Care Unit”, Nursing Outlook 8 (11) (1950), 620.
4. Address of the President, RNABC Annual Meeting, May 8-10 1952.
5. “Nursing Round-Up”, The Canadian Nurse, 49 (2) February 1953, 89-91.
6. Address of the President, RNABC Annual Meeting, June 5-6, 1953.
7. “The Structure Study C.N.A. by Pauline Jewitt. Is it the Answer?” The Canadian Nurse 50 (2) (1954), 111-115.
8. ________ and Kunderman, Eleanor, “Tuberculosis Nursing in British Columbia,” Nursing Outlook 4 (7) (1956), 404-407.
9. “TB Nursing: Has It Changed?” Your Health 24 (3-4), March-April 1959, 10.
10. The School of Nursing at the Royal Columbia Hospital and NursingEducation in Canada 1901-1976, excerpt, pp. 34-35.
11. With Millard, N. and Harkness, I., “Nursing Care Requirements for a Polio Unit”, The Canadian Nurse 59 (7) (1963), 624-631.
12. “Some Reminiscences,” RNABC News, June/July 1972, pp. 18-19.
13. “TB Nursing 1908-1968”. 1987, unpublished.
14. “The School of Nursing at R.C.H. and Nursing Education in Canada 1901-1976”. 1976, revised 1987, unpublished.
15. “Tribute to Anna Dickman Lam,” History of Nursing News, Spring 1996, p. 5.
16. “Summary of Different States of Tuberculosis and resources for treatment and later prevention from 1900-1970.” (1996)
17. “East Kootenay Health and Welfare Service 1935-1938”. BC Historical News, Fall 1997, pp. 17-21.
18. “The Impressions of a Young Swedish Nurse on the ICN Congress and Vancouver” Translated by Paulson from Vardfacket, the official journal of the Swedish Health Care System, Nr. 7, July-August 1997.
19. “Highlights of the ICN Congress”, Translated by Paulson from Vardfacket, the official journal of the Swedish Health Care System, Nr. 7, July-August 1997.
20. “Memories of Scharley Wright Brown and Helen Randal”, 2000. An unpublished monograph based on an interview by Jacqueline Ratzlaff.
“Arduous Trip to Bring Out St. Mary’s Lake Prospector.” Unsourced newspaper article.
White, Marguerite, “American, Newfoundland Nurses to be Welcomed at C.N.A. Parley”. On the 1950 biennium.
Kermacks, Claire, Biographical Outline, 1983.
Fletcher, Anne, “Times Change, Caring Doesn’t”, The Vancouver Sun, February 16, 1987, p. F8.
Letter from P. Cutshall to E. Paulson May 25, 1995.
Letters to Beth Fitzpatrick from Paulson, March 28 and April 3, 1996.
List of donations to RNABC Archives
Zilm, Glennis and Ethel Warbinek, “Fighting a Dangerous Legacy” Esther Paulson:Pioneer in Tuberculosis Care in BC”. For BC Historical News, 1996.
Article submitted for “Pages of History”, 2002.
Warbinek, Ethel, “In Memory of Esther Paulson 1906-2004”, History of Nursing News, March 2004, pp. 1-2.
“Esther Paulson” ” from Glennis Zilm and Ethel Warbinek, “TB Nurses in BC 1895-1960: A Biographical Dictionary”: White Rock, 2006.
Obituaries
Photographs: Paulson’s graduation, photocopied; ca. 1950; 1953; 1987; colour (1998).
Exhibit Materials
Seven digital photographs, some with notes, of Paulson’s early nursing. (On

Patterson (nee Branscombe), Emily Susan (1835 -1909)

See Memorial Nursing Portrait collection, Fonds 18, Series 3, Subseries 7

Nora Duncan immortalized Emily Patterson in her poem “The Heroine of Moodyville” for her daring trip in 1883 on stormy seas, piloted by a Native in his dugout canoe, to give treatment to Mrs. Erwin, the wife of the Port Atkinson lighthouse keeper.

She had arrived with her husband and four children at Hastings Mill on Burrard Inlet in 1873. In 1874 they moved to Moodyville. While not a trained nurse, and was proficient in the effective use of herbal potions and remedies. Many stories attest to her success as midwife and giver of first aid and treatment to white settlers and natives alike.

Contents of Biographical File

Shore, Helen L. “Emily Susan Patterson: Vancouver’s First Nurse”, BC Historical News, Summer 1993, pp. 20-21.
B & W photograph

Owen (nee Ford), Alice E. (1913-2003)

Alice, the great-niece of Florence Nightingale, recalls accompanying a brain injured/blind patient to Denmark as one of her most memorable experiences. Born in Humboldt, Saskatchewan, she received her RN from VGH in 1938. She nursed at a number of Lower Mainland locations, finally as Nurse-in-Charge at the Red Cross from 1965 to 1976. She believes that nursing no longer has the character or prestige it once enjoyed, partly because of the absence of uniforms.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical Information Profile
[Recollections of Nursing]
Obituary
Photograph

Niskala, Dr. Helen (1926-2018)

See Helen Niskala fonds 25

Helen Niskala graduated with a Diploma in Nursing from Toronto Western Hospital in 1951, where she worked from 1952 to 1957. She spent the 1957-58 year at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in London, England, as a post-graduate student. From 1958-1963 she was an Auxiliary Medical Nurse for the Royal Canadian Air Force while working at the Ottawa Civic Hospital.

Graduation from McGill University with a BN in 1964 was followed by moving to UBC School of Nursing as a clinical instructor from 1964 to 1968. She received her MS from The University of California in San Francisco in 1969, and her Doctorate in Adult Education from the University of British Columbia in 1976. The title of her doctoral thesis was “Learning Needs of Persons on Home Hemodialysis”.

She was employed by the School of Nursing at the University of Alberta from 1972-1975, and served as Director of Education Services in Coquitlam for the Registered Psychiatric Nurses Association of BC. She recommenced employment at UBC in 1982, and became an Associate Professor where her special research interests have included treatment of adults and the elderly with long term health problems, particularly in community settings. Her teaching responsibilities included Advanced Nursing Care, Guided Study in Nursing, Clinical Specialization I and II, Teaching in Clinical Nursing, and Nursing and the Delivery of Health Care. She also worked as a consultant on numerous projects, was active in research and publication and was Vice-President RNABC 1989-1990.

Contents of Biographical File

Curriculum Vitae
Brief biographical entries from The Canadian Nurse, December 1972 and April 1978.

Neylan (nee Prowse), Margaret S. (1924-2005)

See Oral History files, Fonds 18, Series 3, Subseries 8

At her presentation of the Jeanne Mance award in 1996, CNA president Eleanor Ross praised Neylan’s contributions to advance “the standards of nursing practice and education, and enhance the status of the profession in Canada and abroad.” She served 2 terms as president of RNABC- 1971-73 and 1989-91 and was CNA vice-president. Margaret had a clinical background in psychiatric nursing and practiced for several years in Montreal before moving to BC. She was a faculty member of the UBC School of Nursing from 1958-1974 where she was Director of Continuing Nursing Education. In 1975 she joined the nursing faculty at BCIT and became Associate Dean of Nursing. She retired in 1991.

Her achievements include successfully advocating for the integration of psychiatric institutions into mainstream Canadian health services. She developed continuing nursing education programs that have been a model for Canadian curricula, and developed a model for independent learning in post-basic nursing education for remote areas. She was the recipient of several awards.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical Information Profile
Curriculum Vitae
Brief biographical information
Announcement in The Canadian Nurse, October 1974, p. 38.
“B.C.’s Margaret Neylan Receives Jeanne Mance Award”, CNA Today: Special Edition, June 19, 1996, p. 2.
“BC Nurse Receives Jeanne Mance Award”, CNA Today, September 1996, p. 1.
“Margaret Neylan”, The Canadian Nurse, April 1978.
“Names and Faces”, The Canadian Nurse, June 1980, p. 48.
RNABC Awards Ceremony, 2005.
Requiem Mass, March 23, 2005.
Obituary
Notes for oral history taping, 1997, 1999.

Newton, June (1919-2015)

Newton, (nee Plummer), June (1919-2015)

See also oral history files fonds 18, Series 3, Subseries 8, AU0H30, CDOH30
See E.A. Landells, ed., The Military Nurses of Canada: Reflections of Canadian Military Nurses.

June grew up in Kinsella, Alberta, but moved to Victoria for her nursing training, where she graduated from Royal Jubilee Hospital in 1941. Partly inspired by stories of WW I her father told her, she became a nursing sister for RCAMC from 1943 to 1946, serving in both England and Italy. She recalls that her first patient had no arms or legs. She was the last President of the Vancouver Unit of the Nursing Sisters of Canada before they disbanded in 2004.

She worked as an office nurse in Vancouver for Dr. Stanley after the war, and, after taking time out to raise children, became a nurse for the children at the Sunny Hill Hospital in Vancouver from 1966 to 1976. In 2009 she received the History of Nursing Society’s first “Recognition Award”, given to a person who has made a significant contribution to the history of nursing.

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Biographical Information Profile
McMartin, Peter, “Time and Age Overtake Them: Wartime Nurses Gather for One Last Hurrah”, The Vancouver Sun, November 10, 2004, pp. B1, B6.
June Newton recognition award, History of Nursing News, 20 (2) (July 2009),
Photograph
Obituary, Vancouver Sun, Nov. 21, 2015
Freedom of the City pamphlet for 12 (Vancouver) Field Ambulance. – April 14, 2007.
Twelve photographs of June Newton with others on occasion of recognition in 2007. Transferred to photograph collection as PH-1653-PH-1664. Includes one photograph of WWII ship.
Memorial Program