Biographical Files A-D

Wilma Elaine Crockett (1951-2001)
Tania Dick
Jacqueline Chapman (1935-2009)
Frances Cannon (1941-2005)
Rob Calnan
Gertrude Buckland (1881-1961)
Stephanie Buckingham
Muriel Bamford (1918-2017)
Grace “Torchy” Adamson (1927-1992)
Beryl K Albee (1921-2012)
Barbara Anderson (1916-2008)
Hazel Hope Anderson (1916- 2001)
Maude Anderson (1915-1995)
Monica Angus (1932-
Dr. Carolyn Attridge (1936-2010)
Patricia Barff (1910-1987)
Dr. Alice J Baumgart
Olga Belecky (1911-2006)
Ellen Benedict 1902 – 1997
Angela Berg (1936-2004)
Phyllis Bernez (1925- 2014)
Lois Blais 1938 – 2008
Vivian Blake (1927-
Marion Boyle (1925-
Elizabeth Breeze (1881-1938)
Sharley Brown (1879-1944)
James Bullen
Helen Campbell (1902-
Joyce Campbell (1921-2013)
Margaret Campbell (1923-1992)
Mary Campbell (1879-1958)
Joyce Campkin (1924-2021)
Pauline Capelle (1906-1991)
Barbara Carroll (1943- )
Joan Carruthers (1924-
Anne Cavers (1889-1971)
Elizabeth “Betty” Cawston (1917- 2003)
Sister Mary Celestine (1918-1995)
Christine Charter (1913-2012)
Carmen Elizabeth Clarke (1911-1960)
Sister Columkille (1890-1973)
Dr. Lyle Creelman (1908-2007)
Lavinia Crane (1923-2017)
Christina Critchley (1911-1982)
Shirley Dean (1934-1979)
Joan Doree (1919-2016)
Jean Dorgan (1910-2008)
Florence Dougherty (1912- 2003)
Daggitt, Mildred Emily (1929-2016)
Mary Thurley Duck (1929-1997)
Beverly DuGas (1923-2012)
Margaret Duffield (1884-1969)
Deidre Duggan (1932-
Margaret Willard Jensen (1921-1999)
Nancy Dunn
Rachel Margaret Dwyer (1918- 2015)

Wilma Elaine Crockett (1951-2001)

Wilma Crockett graduated from the Prince Edward Island School of Nursing in 1972. She came to work at the Trail Regional Hospital, and in 1980 began her focus on dialysis care. She became head nurse of the small yet highly efficient Trail renal unit in 1986. She served on nine renal agency committees and made contributions to a number of other organizations. She died in a car accident on her way to the grand opening of the Sparwood Dialysis Unit.

Contents of Biographical File

Letter and supporting material concerning submission of Crockett for inclusion in the RNABC Memorial Book.

Tania Dick

Dick, Tania

An aboriginal from Kingcome Inlet, Tania has survived racism and discrimination to become a specialist in Emergency and Aboriginal Health. She has been a RN in BC for 12 years and received a Masters degree in the Nurse Practitioner program at UBC in 2010 and is active in the ARNBC, becoming president elect in 2015 and president 2017-2019. Her goal is to empower nurses to use their voice, and work together to benefit both the nursing family and the health of all British Columbians. She has played a key role in advancing the Association’s work around aboriginal health nursing. She currently works full time as a general duty nurse in her father’s rural village Alert Bay BC.

Contents of Biographical File

Biography for being President-elect
“Tania’s Story” from the Canadian Nurses Foundation
Photograph and career highlights

Jacqueline Chapman (1935-2009)

Chapman, Jacqueline “Jackie” (1935-2009)

Jackie graduated from the Vancouver General Hospital SON in 1957.After obtaining her BSN from UBC in 1958, Jacquie worked on a surgical ward at VGH, advancing to the position of head nurse. She later moved on to head nursing roles in the ICU at Royal Columbia Hospital and was an instructor at UBC from 1962 to 1965. She received her Masters from Case Western in 1967 and her doctorate from New York University in 1975.

As a researcher Jacquie blazed a trail for many later nurses. She was influential in research that led to improved care in neonatal nurseries, including the importance of premature babies having opportunities for bonding with their parents and the effects of auditory stimulation on their development.

Contents of Biographical File

Curriculum Vitae, ca. 1995.
Information from Internet sources.
Obituaries
Photograph

Frances Cannon (1941-2005)

Cannon (nee Caldwell), Frances Jean (1941-2005)

“Fran” is best known as becoming, in 1972, the first woman to swim the 21-mile Georgia Strait connecting Vancouver Island with the Lower Mainland. A plaque honoring this achievement is erected on Granville Island on the Trans Canada Trail.

She graduated from Vancouver General Hospital SON in 1963, winning the award for the highest standing in bedside nursing in a class of more than 170. She worked in Public Health in both BC and Ontario and taught Maternity Child Health at a Toronto Hospital.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical information
VGH Commencement program for 1962
Candlelight capping for 1963
Congratulatory letter from Beverly DuGas May 30, 1963.
J.L. Crowe High School Reunion, 1980.
St. John Ambulance First Aid Certificate.
Articles on her swimming
Photocopied photographs. Five prints
Obituary Vancouver Sun, Jan29, 2005

Rob Calnan

Calnan, Rob

Rob Calnan was president of the RNABC from 1997-1999, and subsequently served for a number of years as President of the Canadian Nurses Association. He graduated from BCITs nursing program and later received a BSN in 1987 and a M.Ed. in 1990 from the University of Victoria. He has worked as a nurse in Haiti and is a strong advocate for the values of equity and justice. He has worked at Camosun College as a member of the University of Victoria Collaborative Partnership and also maintained a clinical practice in the Intensive Care Unit at Victoria General Hospital. In 2018 is Coordinator of Site Operations for Victoria General & Cowichan District Hospital.

Contents of Biographical file

“New RNABC President Seen as Mentor”, Nursing BC, August-September 1997, p. 8.
“Why Nurses Matter”, Nursing BC, November-December 1997, pp. 4-5.
“Investing in Ourselves,” Nursing BC, January-February 1998, pp. 4-5.
“On Being Inspired,” Nursing BC, March-April 1998, pp. 4-5.
“Turning Point”, Nursing BC, May-June 1998, pp. 4-6.
“Fitness for Purpose,” Nursing BC, July-August 1998, p. 4.
“What Are Our Goliaths,” Nursing BC, November-December 1998, pp. 4-5.
“The Health of Health Care,” Nursing BC, March-April 1999, pp. 4-5.
“Establishing Traditions, Nursing BC, January-February 1999, pp. 4-5.
“Leave No Stone Unturned,” Nursing BC, May-June 1999, pp. 4-7.
“Follow Your Passion”, Nursing BC, August-September 1999, pp. 4-5.
2006 CRNBC Awards, “Award of Merit: Rob Calnan”, Nursing BC, June 2006, p. 1.
CNA President-elect Candidate
“Nursing Profiles: Rob Calnan”, Abstract. Nursing Leadership, 17 (1), March 2004.
“Nursing Leaders Express the Need for Major Change in Health Policy,” Association of Registered Nurses of BC blog, December 21, 2013.
Colour Photograph, 4×5.

Gertrude Buckland (1881-1961)

Buckland (nee Wilshire), Gertrude “Billie” (1881-1961)

Gertrude was born in Australia where she trained as a nurse to help ease her family’s financial burden occasioned by her father’s death., graduating from Sydney Hospital in 1902. She travelled to Canada where she worked at the Vancouver City Hospital. Later she moved to New Zealand with her husband, then back to Canada in 1921. She raised a total of seven children.

Contents of Biographical File

Sponsoring information by Kirstine Buckland Griffith for Pages of History.
Photograph

Stephanie Buckingham

Buckingham, Stephanie

From 1998, Stephanie was employed as a professor in the Bachelor of Science in the Nursing program at Vancouver Island University. She had graduated from the Royal Jubilee School of Nursing in 1973, and completed a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and a Master of Arts and Leadership and Training. She also spent 27 years as a Nursing Officer with the Naval Reserve, culminating with being interim Commanding Officer of HMCS Carleton in Ottawa.

Contents of Biographical File

Autobiography
Biography accompanying uniform donated to BC History of Nursing Society
Photograph of Stephanie Buckingham as Commanding Officer of HMCS Carleton with unidentified man.

Muriel Bamford (1918-2017)

Bamford, Muriel Ruth (1918-2017)

Muriel graduated from Toronto’s Wellesley Hospital in 1941. Until 1943 she did industrial nursing at General Electric, and in 1946 was sent to India as a missionary nurse for the United Church. She remained nursing in India for most of the time until her retirement in 1975. Following her return to Canada, from 1977 to 1983 she worked at UBC Hospital’s Purdy Pavilion.

Contents of Biographical File

Tape release and referral worksheet.
Biographical notes
Correspondence re interview. – 2006.
Obituary
Photograph

Grace “Torchy” Adamson (1927-1992)

Adamson, (nee Stewart) Grace “Torchy” (1927-1992)

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

Grace “Torchy” Adamson Nicknamed “Torchy” because of her red hair and outgoing personality, Grace Adamson graduated from Vancouver General Hospital School of Nursing in 1950 and received her BSN from UBC in 1951. She taught at Vancouver General Hospital and worked as a VON in Vancouver’s downtown east side in the 1950s. After her marriage she left active nursing, but worked as editor and then co-editor of the VGH Alumnae newsletter from 1952 to 1992.

Her daughter remembers that her mother taught her “to care in ways that advocate for social justice, change, and transformation.” After her death the Grace Torchy Stewart Adamson Memorial Scholarship was established to honour her dedication to nursing education.

Contents of Biographical File

Biography by her daughter, Janet Adamson
One photograph (1950)

Beryl K Albee (1921-2012)

Albee (nee Brownlee) Beryl K. (1921-2012)

Beryl Albee was born and raised in Edmonton, graduating in nursing from the Vancouver General Hospital in 1944. She was an active volunteer in her Nanaimo community, serving for two years as president of each of the Chemainus chapter of RNABC and the Nanaimo chapter. She became Governor of the Nanaimo Regional Hospital Board and a member of the Building Committee for a new hospital. She was also Chair of the Health Division for the National Council of Women.

She served from 1972 to 1987 on the Board of Malaspina College, and ten years on the BC Association of Colleges. She was the first administrator and Director of Care for the long term care facility Kiwanis Lodge. Malaspina University College awarded her an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree by in May 2000.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical Information Profile with signed release
Biographical information with photograph
Albee –page from “Pages of History”
Ten photographs with Albee holding Honorary Doctor of Laws certificate received from Malaspina University College in Nanaimo in 2000.

Barbara Anderson (1916-2008)

Anderson (nee Schierbeck), Barbara
(1916-

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

Barbara immigrated from Denmark to Quebec in 1920. From 1937 to 1939 she took a children’s nursing course at Ottawa Children’s Hospital, where she subsequently worked as a nurse. She served in the Canadian Air Force from 1942 to 1945. Her nursing career included nursing care at an Indian reservation near Whitehorse and work in Victoria and Vancouver. From 1966 to 1989 she lived in Burnaby where she taught chair exercises and did massage therapy.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical Information Profile with signed release
1 letter dated March 20, 2002 from Ethel Warbinek
1 card
RCAF [poem]
One photograph

Hazel Hope Anderson (1916- 2001)

Anderson (nee Souther), Hazel Hope
(1916- 2001)

Hazel graduated from nursing at Vancouver General Hospital in 1939. She worked at Vernon Hospital and G.R. Baker. She says I was “just a good bedside nurse [who] loved what I was doing”.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical Information Profile with signed release.
One photograph (1939)

Maude Anderson (1915-1995)

Anderson (nee Dolphin) Maude Irene (1915-1995)

manderson Maude Anderson received her Diploma in Nursing from the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal in 1944 and a Bachelor of Nursing from McGill in 1947. From 1947-1953 she taught at the Vancouver General School of Nursing. From 1953 to 1959 she worked with the World Health Organization to modernize health delivery systems and establish schools of nursing in Dacca, Pakistan and Mauritius. She obtained her Masters of Nursing degree from the University of Seattle and from 1961-1966 was Director of Nursing at Nanaimo General Hospital.

She was Director of Nursing at Maple Ridge Hospital from 1973-1980 and active on numerous RNABC committees. In 1989 she was awarded the RNABC Award of Excellence in Nursing Administration for her work as an administrator, consultant, educator, lecturer and conference leader.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical Information Profile with signed release
Summary of Anderson’s Nursing and Professional experience
Nomination for RNABC Memorial Book
Award of Excellence article and photograph in RNABC News, May-June 1989
Brief biography on occasion of election to 1980 Board
One photograph (1996)

Monica Angus (1932-

Angus (nee McArdle), Monica
(1932-

Monica Angus practiced as a clinical psychologist from 1981, particularly in forensic psychology. Prior to this she received her RN from St. Paul’s Hospital, M.A.s in Education and psychology, and a Ph.d. from Simon Fraser University in 1978. While she initially worked in pediatrics, she found that after she had children nursing was incompatible with a family life.

Her many activities have included being on the Department of Labour Board of Inquiry, and consultancies including Riverview Mental Hospital, Worker’s Compensation Board, Canada EAP Services Ltd., Corporate Health Consultants. Manulife, and the RCMP. Her committee service has included being both Vice-President and President of RNABC. She has numerous publications and has received a number of awards, including two Alice E. Wilson awards from the Canadian Federation of University Women.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical Information Profile with signed release.
Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Carolyn Attridge (1936-2010)

Attridge, Dr. Carolyn
(1936-2010)

Carolyn Attridge received degrees in nursing, pediatrics, and a Ph.d. in Curriculum and Instruction. She taught nursing at Ryerson Polytechnic, one of three offering the first educational program without any direct link to the traditional practice field of hospital nursing. She joined the School of Nursing program at the University of Victoria in 1981, offering programs that allowed nurses to complete their B.A.s in their own communities. Later on, she became Director of the School of Nursing

Her research included pioneering studies of the quality of nursing working life, and as the principal investigator on the evaluation team that examined the Comox Valley Nursing Center. She was a past president of WRCAUSN and received an Award of Distinction from the RNABC in 1999. She was known for her novel ideas and as a tireless educational innovator.

Contents of Biographical File

Biography
4 photographs

Patricia Barff (1910-1987)

Barff, Patricia (1910-1987)

barff Patricia Barff was born in Shanghai and was sent to Victoria BC for her schooling. She graduated from the Vancouver General HospitalSchool of Nursing in1931. On graduation she worked first as a pediatric head nurse and then as a night supervisor until 1959. Subsequently she worked for a few years at Cedarhurst, a small private hospital in Surrey BC, although her activity was limited by herRheumatoid Arthritis.

Contents of Biographical File

“A Life in Letters” by Glennis Zilm, describing Pat Barff’s letters about her nursing career 1928-1977 to a friend. Originals at VGH SON Alumnae Association Archives.
Two photographs, one dated 1931. Copies of each.

Dr. Alice J Baumgart

Baumgart, Dr. Alice J.

Alice Baumgart graduated from the Vancouver General Hospital School of Nursing in 1957 and from University of British Columbia School of Nursing in 1958 and later received a Masters degree from McGill and a Ph.d. from The University of Toronto. She was Dean of Nursing at Queens University from 1977 to 1988 and 1994 to 1997. From 1988 to 1993 she served as Vice-Principal (Human Services), the first woman appointed Vice-Principal in the history of Queens. After retirement she became professor emeritus at Queens.

Baumgart is an internationally known nursing leader who has been a frequent keynote speaker at many conferences. She has published widely on nursing, including the co-editing of Canadian Nursing Faces the Future.She was known as an able and fair administrator with exemplary leadership skills. She received an honorary doctorate from UBC in 1999.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical notes
Curriculum Vitae, ca. 1991
Draft of letter from Ethel Warbinek from the 80th Anniversary Committee, 1999.
Ten letters of support for nomination of Alice Baumgart for an honourary doctorate from the University of British Columbia.
Correspondence related to the UBC Honourary Doctorate
Alice Baumgart, VGH 1957, UBC BSN 1958—series of notes and list of items in RNABC/CRNBC Corporate Archives.
Annual Spring Convocation, May 29, 2000. Doctor of Laws honoris causa awarded to Alice J. Baumgart

Olga Belecky (1911-2006)

Belecky, Olga Earl (Sister Claire) (1911-2006)

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

Olga Belecky was born in Hosmer, BC, near Fernie, the daughter of an immigrant couple from Russia. She was initially trained as a teacher, but soon decided to enter nursing. After receiving her training at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, she became a nursing instructor at St. Eugene’s Hospital in Cranbrook. In 1943 she entered the Poor Claires in Victoria and became Sister Claire, known throughout her life for her deep compassion for the troubled, and dedication to her faith.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical Information Profile with signed release.
Notes and correspondence, especially concerning her suitability for the cloistered life.
Photograph of Belecky family, taken about 1946.

Ellen Benedict 1902 – 1997

Benedict, Frances Ellen(1902-1997)

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

Frances Benedict graduated from UBC in 1923 with a B.A. She taught at various schools in BC, also pursuing graduate studies. When her mother died, she studied at St. Paul’s Hospital, achieving the highest marks in the provincial nursing examinations. She stayed on at St. Paul’s as a teacher, later becoming Educational Director.

After nine years she left for nursing positions in Montreal and later Manitoba before returning to British Columbia, where she joined the teaching staff at the Royal Columbian School of Nursing. Here she became Educational Director until her retirement. Students and others remember her for her kindness and understanding.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical Information Profile
The Lamp, Royal Columbian Hospital, (1969) Dedication to and History of Miss Benedict.
“Remembering Frances”. Memorial eulogy by Helen Shore.
Obituaries
Three photographs

Angela Berg (1936-2004)

Berg (nee Hughes), Angela Joan (1936-2004)

berg CD includes two large files on Angela containing scanned material prepared by her husband Ken Berg. These include one file primarily of her high school years. The other is mainly of her St. Paul’s years, including numerous photographs from her St. Paul’s nursing class, poems, photographs of her wedding (1958) and various pamphlets, including Nina Rumen’s “Vancouver’s Monuments to Nursing Sisters”.

Angela Berg was born in Fernie and attended Lord Byng High School, from which she graduated in 1951. She trained at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver and married in 1958. She later worked at the Tom Uphill Memorial Home in Fernie, and also as a staff nurse in China.

Contents of Biographical File

CD date July 2005, with attached correspondence

Phyllis Bernez (1925- 2014)

Bernez (nee Weir), Phyllis (1925- 2014)

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical Information Profile with signed release
Letter from Ethel Warbinek dated January 27, 2006.
Five photocopied photographs dated 1946-1970. Photos are saved in oral history photos file.

Lois Blais 1938 – 2008

Blais, Lois M. (1938-2008)

See Oral History files, Fonds 18, Series 3, Subseries 8, AUOH23, CDOH39

Contents of biographical file

Curriculum Vitae
Member Bio: Lois Blais, RN, MSM, IEHP
Letter from Carol Winter to Lois Blais, May 2, 1995.
Certificates:
1. UBC School of Nursing Adjunct Recognition Award, June 15, 2000.
2. St. Paul’s Hospital Emergency Response Team, March 18, 1994.
3. UBC Level 1 program in Critical Care Nursing, November 18-December 4, 1986.
4. Membership in the Nursing Honour Society of the University of British Columbia, April 12, 1991.
Invitation to Retirement Tea for Lois Blais, March 19, 1999.
Remembering Lois Blais, HON News, Fall 2008 (2 copies).
Two newspaper clippings
Jill Thompson, “Florence Nightingale: Her Life and Times Revisited”‘, History of Nursing News, Summer 2001, pp. 1-2
Obituaries and e-mails
7 photographs: Graduation, n.d. and in 2000 as Florence Nightingale

Vivian Blake (1927-

Blake (nee Jackson), Vivian Mona (1927-

Vivian Blake Vivian Blake graduated from Vancouver General Hospital School of Nursing in 1950. She was an Assistant Head Nurse in Pediatrics after her graduation from UBC School of Nursing in 1952. From 1953 to 1958 she was an instructor in Anatomy/Physiology at the VGH School of Nursing. She received a life membership in VGH SON Alumnae in 1974. After her marriage in 1958 she retired to be a homemaker. She is active on numerous committees with the VGH SON Alumnae Association.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical Information Profile with signed release

Marion Boyle (1925-

Boyle, Marion (1925-

Marion Boyle grew up in Prince George and graduated fromVancouver General Hospital School of Nursing in 1949 and attended UBC receiving a BSc(N) in 1950. After her graduation she worked for several years in overseas jobs. She worked as a staff nurse from 1959-1976 on a community health nurse pilot project and from 1976 to 1996 for the Vancouver Board of Health.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical Information Profile. Release not signed.
Cover letter indicates photo included, but none on file
Letter from Naomi Miller to Ethel Warbinek re file.
“Family Memories” by Marion of her mother Ethel, 2000, with three photocopied photographs.

Elizabeth Breeze (1881-1938)

Breeze, Elizabeth G. (1881-1938)

elizabethbreeze0012 Breeze graduated from the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto; she received additional training in affiliated schools and Roosevelt Hospital in New York. In 1910 she initiated the school nursing service in Vancouver and in 1923 became Director of Nursing for the Metropolitan Health Committee of Greater Vancouver, a position she held until her death.

She was a charter member of the Graduate Nurses’ Association of BC, becoming elected president in 1921, and president of RNABC from 1921 to 1925. In 1923 she was elected president of the Public Health Nursing Section of the Canadian National Association of Trained Nurses. In 1936, when the Metropolitan Heath Committee of Greater Vancouver was formed, she was named Director of Public Health Nursing.

With J. Mace Andress she was co-author of Health Care for Canadian Schools, which was in use for more than twenty years after her death. In 1925 she introduced a course on health for school children at UBC’s summer school for teachers.

Contents of Biographical File

Elizabeth Breeze, “The Metropolitan Health Committee of Greater Vancouver”, The Canadian Nurse, May 1938, pp. 233-238.
Appointment [to the Metropolitan Health Board], The Canadian Nurse (February 1937), p. 71.
Miscellaneous personal information, with some accompanying e-mails, on an article on Breeze by Glennis Zilm and Ethel Warbinek for the Canadian Journal of Nursing (2002).
Ethel Warbinek and Glennis Zilm, “Profile of a Leader: Elizabeth Breeze”, Canadian Journal of Nursing, Sept./Oct. 2002, pp. 28-29.
CV
Biography from the “Biographical Dictionary”
Biographical information
Death certificate
“Elizabeth Gertrude Breeze” from Glennis Zilm and Ethel Warbinek, “TB Nurses in BC 1895-1960: A Biographical Dictionary”: White Rock, 2006.
Obituaries
Photograph

Sharley Brown (1879-1944)

Brown (nee Wright) SharleyBryce (1879-1944)

Contents of Biographical File

Five excerpts from The Canadian Nurse Journal. — 1917-1918.
Hand written notes by Esther Paulson, Feb. 15, 1999.
Vital Statistics—Marriage Registration, 1915.
Information on the Farrand Training School—excerpts from an article written by Frank P. Woodford and Philip P. Mason, “Harper of Detroit”, (1964).
Registration of deaths: Charlotte Phoebe Brown and Robert Bryce Brown
Letter from Monica Green to Glennis Zilm, April 27, 1992.
“The Presidents, 1912-1987: 75 Years of Caring.” RNABC News Nov.-Dec. 1987, p. 19.
“Profile: BC Nursing Leader.” History of Nursing Group Newsletter, June 1993, pp. 8-9.
Additional Notes
Nomination to the RNABC Memorial book.
Nomination to the CNA Memorial book
Photocopied photograph
Glennis Zilm and Ethel Warbinek, “Profile of a Leader: Scharley Phoebe (Wright) Brown”, CJNL(September-October 1999), 12 (3) pp. 24-26.
Obituaries, British Columbia Daily, June 13, 1944, p. 5, The Canadian Nurse (1944), 40 (8), p. 576.

James Bullen

Bullen, James

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

James Bullen was the first male nurse to graduate from a BC hospital (St. Paul’s). He states that he developed an interest in medicine during the three years he spent as a corporal in the Canadian Army Medical Corps during the war. He believes that being invalided out of the army has given him more sympathy and understanding of his patients. He was the great grandson of BC’s first doctor, Dr. J.S. Helmcken.

Contents of Biographical File

Newspaper article “B.C.’s First Male Nurse Grad ‘Just One of the Girls’” by Naomi Lang. source and date unknown. Copied from original, which was in poor shape.
Typed copy of above.

Helen Campbell (1902-

Campbell, Helen (1902-

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

hcampbell Helen Campbell was born in Medicine Hat. After four years of teaching in one-room schools, she commenced nursing study in 1926 at Vancouver General Hospital. Subsequently she worked at Wrinch Memorial Hospital in Hazelton for five years. From 1937 to 1942 she did private nursing in Vancouver, followed by brief periods at Britannia Beach and Fort Rupert. She returned to Grand Forks in 1943 to nurse her parents and do some work in the local hospital. In 1963 a new hospital was built here, where she became Director of Nursing until her retirement in 1968.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical Profile by Vera Polonicoff
Three photographs
Reminiscences by Helen Campbell from Boundary History, the thirteenth report of the Boundary Historical Society. – 1995.

Joyce Campbell (1921-2013)

Campbell (nee Fergusson), Joyce May (1921-2013)

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

Joyce took her nursing at Vancouver General Hospital, receiving her nursing registration in 1944, ranking second in the Provincial exams. In 1945 she received a diploma in teaching and supervision and in 1967 a diploma in public health nursing, both from UBC. In 1975 she received an Award of Merit for achieving the highest standing in a course in business economics in a diploma in business management.

After various positions at VGH, Joyce became a nursing supervisor at Lions Gate Hospital in 1967, Nursing Director in 1975 and Vice-president of Nursing in 1985. She retired in 1987, but remained active in nursing for some years. Colleagues describe her as empathetic, compassionate, dependable and supportive.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical information file with release form and curriculum vitae
Page of history
Photograph
Correspondence to Campbell from Glennis Zilm.

Margaret Campbell (1923-1992)

Campbell, Margaret (1923-1992)

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical Information Profile
Curriculum Vitae
Nomination to the CNA Memorial Book
Campbell, M.A. (1973) Panel: “Preparing Tomorrow’s Practitioners, Innovations and Projections—University Programs”. CNA National Conference on Nurses for Community Service
Nurses graduate: photograph of M. Campbell (photocopied).
Dinner at 7: Photograph of M. Campbell, 1952. (photocopied).
Letter from Alain Norman responding to Glennis Zilm October 7, 2005.
Campbell, M.A. (1978). “Conceptual framework: The Leveling of a Discipline”. A paper presented at CAUSN Annual Conference, The University of Western Ontario. –June 2, 1978.
Transcript from The Vancouver General Hospital School of Nursing, 1944-1947.
Campbell, Margaret Amelia. From Who’s Who in America 1982-1983 (Vol. 1) 42nd ed. Chicago: Marquis Who’s Who, ca. 1983.
Campbell, M.A. “Untitled article”. National Conference on Nurses for Community Service, 1973. CNA Ottawa, November 13-16, 1973.
Campbell, M.A. “Identifying Nursing Problems.” The Canadian Nurse (1965) 61 (2) 96-99.
“Candidates: Member at Large, Nursing Education”. The Canadian Nurse, April 1980, p. 24.
Interview by Ethel Warbinek, June 18, 1991.
Obituary Notice. The Vancouver Sun.
Photographs: 2 b&w, 1 colour, plus the colour negative.
Certificate of Registration in the Graduate Nurses’ Association of British Columbia and registrar’s receipt for Margaret’s mother Helen Kathleen Davis, 1920.

Mary Campbell (1879-1958)

Campbell, Mary Palma (1879-1958)

Mary was born in Scotland, graduating from the Royal Infirmary and Fever Hospital and St. Mary’s Hospital in Greenock, also studying midwifery. In 1911 she emigrated with her mother and two nurse sisters to Canada, living first in Toronto then Vancouver.

She became a school nurse for the Vancouver School Board in 1918 and joined the Metropolitan Health Board in 1936. Other activities included service as president of the RNABC from 1929 to 1933. She provided support for the Seafarers’ depot and was active in the life of the Holy Trinity Anglican Church.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical data submitted by Pauline Ranta, with sketch of Mary Palma.
Preliminary CV information
“The Campbells” by Pauline Ranta, in “The Lunch Club Lives”, an unpublished document produced by the West Point Grey United Church in 1999, the International Year of Older Persons. Includes sketch.

Joyce Campkin (1924-2021)

See Oral History files, Fonds 18, Series 3, Subseries 8, AUOH24, CDOH40

Graduating from VGH in 1947, Joyce went on to VGH OR post graduate work at VGH, a diploma from McGill University in clinical teaching and supervision, and a BSN from UBC in 1972. She worked mostly at VGH in gynecology, OR, SON clinical instructor, and orthopedics.

She describes her greatest career satisfaction “sensing and observing the sense of trust (student learner or patient) to one another and the growth of students’, patients’ readiness to participate in supervised teaching of students.

UBC pin is in envelope in artifact collection.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical Information Profile with signed release
News in General (July/August 1984) with photo of Campkin
Photograph
Publicity sheet for her autobiography Good Times

Pauline Capelle (1906-1991)

Capelle, Pauline “Polly” (1906-1991)

Following her graduation from UBC with a BA and BASC(N), Pauline became a nursing supervisor with the BC Division of Venereal Disease Control. In 1944 she was appointed an instructor and supervisor of public health nursing field work at UBC. She took her Masters, majoring in pediatrics.

She writes in 1955-56: “Nursing students and educators recognize that the nurse of today needs knowledge and skills that will prepare her for nursing in a world where the key words are change and adjustment.”

Contents of Biographical File

1. Letter from niece, Pauline Hodgos, to Rose Murikami, August 9, 1993 with biographical information

2. Biographical information
3. Transcript of conversation with Rose Murakami, July 12, 1993.
4. Three articles by Capelle:

a. “Why I Chose Nursing”, The Canadian Nurse, October 1947, pp. 777-778

b. “The Nurse and Venereal Disease Control,” The Canadian Nurse, July 1944, pp. 487-489.

c. “Nursing for our Times”, The Slipstick (Engineering Undergraduate Society of UBC), 1956, p. 86.

4. “Interesting people.” Pauline Capelle, The Canadian Nurse, October 1944, p. 793.

Barbara Carroll (1943- )

Carroll, Barbara Louise (1943- )

See Oral History files, Fonds 18, Series 3, Subseries 8, AUOH42, CDOH34

Barbara Carroll worked in a number of hospitals throughout BC and Ontario. Her ten years in the Hospital Information Systems Department Kelowna General Hospital led to her designing training programs for every department. She felt inefficiency was causing a lot of wastage, especially because of the lack of shared, integrated health information networks between care-providers between health regions and provincial/federal agencies. “The challenge today is to have the automation and tools available to them to reduce duplication, improve timely communication, and documentation”.

Contents of Biographical File

1. Biographical Information Profile

2. Transcript of Oral History interview, October 21, 2005.

3. Paper on Health Care Issues presented to BC’s Health Ministry, January 27, 2007.

Joan Carruthers (1924-

Carruthers (nee Cummer), Joan M. (1924-

Joan Carruthers grew up in Ontario and British Columbia, taking her nursing at the Royal Columbian Hospital from 1943 to 1947. She worked in Grand Forks, at the Women’s College Hospital in Toronto, the Powell River General Hospital, and Weekend Home Nursing for Public Health. She was also involved with Meals on Wheels for thirty years.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical Information Profile. Release not signed.

Anne Cavers (1889-1971)

Cavers, Anne S. (1889-1971)

Contents of Biographical File

Biography of Anne S. Cavers (1889-1971).
Cavers, Anne S. “Theory and Practice,” The Canadian Nurse, September 1938, pp. 492-494.
From Cavers, Anne S. Our School of Nursing, 1889 to 1949, p. 75. Produced to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the School of Nursing, Vancouver General Hospital.
Gaudreault, Patricia, “Anne Sutherland Cavers (1888-1971): From School Teacher to Nurse Teacher”, 2012.
Miller, Naomi, “In Memory of Anne S. Cavers”
Profile on Ann S. Cavers, pp. 3-4 (probably from VGH SON Alumnae newsletter)
Death registration
Photographs

Elizabeth “Betty” Cawston (1917- 2003)

Cawston, Elizabeth “Betty” H. (1917- 2003)

See Oral History files, Fonds 18, Series 3, Subseries 8 and Pages of History, Fonds 18, Series 3, Subseries 9, File 2

Cawston graduated from Vancouver General Hospital School of Nursing in 1939 and took a diploma course in Clinical Supervision at UBC in 1954-55, receiving her BSN from UBC in 1960. In 1965 she received her Masters in Nursing from the University of Washington in Seattle.

From 1940 she worked in various positions at VGH—staff nurse, assistant head nurse, assistant night supervisor, head nurse, building supervisor and special service nurse in the division of VD control. She became a nursing instructor at UBC from 1953, and was appointed to the UBC faculty in 1960, becoming Assistant Professor in 1966.

Contents of Biographical File

1. Biographical notes

2. Employment reviews, 1960-1979

3. Dinner for Cawston on the occasion of her retirement.

4. 2 photographs, one original, one photocopied.

Sister Mary Celestine (1918-1995)

Celestine, Sister Mary
(Anna Knapp) (1918-1995)

Anna Krapp grew up on a farm in northern Alberta’s Peace country. She received her RN from the St. Eugene School of Nursing in Cranbrook, her BSN from Seattle University in Seattle, and her MSW from St. Patrick’s College at the University of Ottawa. She worked as a nurse at St. Paul’s Hospital, and was administrator of the Father Lacombe Nursing Home in Calgary, Superior of Providence Creche in Calgary, and Director of Catholic Social Services in Edmonton.

The highlight of her career was six months as a pediatric nurse in the Albert Schweitzer Hospital at Deschapelles in Haiti. She was a member of the Sisters of Providence of Montreal throughout her adult life, being Provincial Superior in the Canadian West from 1976 to 1982.

Contents of Biographical File

1. Biographical Information Profile.

2. Letter to Helen Shore, March 7, 1994.

3. In Memoriam. From B.C. Catholic, November 19, 1995.

4. Obituary

Christine Charter (1913-2012)

Charter, Christine (1913-2012)

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

Christine Charter obtained her academic education in England and New Brunswick. Graduated from the Saint John General Hospital School of Nursing. Took a post graduate course in obstetrics at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal and received a diploma in public health nursing at the School of Nursing, Toronto University. She moved to Vancouver and was director of the Vancouver branch of the Victorian Order of Nurses. During World War II in Nova Scotia she helped set up emergency treatment in the basement of a school for injured crew attacked by German U-boats. She was transferred to Toronto in 1942 and Vancouver in 1944.

She introduced many innovative home nursing programs, hiring the Order’s first male nurse to enable eleven male quadriplegic patients to move from hospital to a home setting. She added physio and occupational therapy services, and also set up Vancouver’s Meals on Wheels program.

Contents of Biographical File

Article on Charter in Health & Home Care newsletter, Fall 2008.
“A Legacy with the Victorian Order of Nurses: Charting a Path Towards Better Community Care,” VON at Work, Spring 2004, pp. 1,4.
Obituary from the Vancouver Sun, August 25, 2012, p. E14.
Page from CRNBC Memorial Book
Christine Charter: Photograph and photocopy, b & w
The transcript of a 1988 interview with Christine Charter is located in Fonds 18.

Carmen Elizabeth Clarke (1911-1960)

Clarke (nee Huber), Carmen Elizabeth (1911-1960)

clarke Elizabeth trained as a nurse at the Swift Current Hospital, moving with her husband John Clark to Vancouver in the 1940s where she worked at the Hospital for Sick and Crippled Children. In 1948 she wrote the song that made her famous, “There’s a Bluebird on Your Windowsill” for a young patient who noticed a sparrow hopping on the windowsill by his bed.

The song was recorded by CKNW’s Rhythm Pals, Don Murphy and then by Wilf Carter, Doris Day, Tex Williams, Bing Crosby and numerous others. It became the first Canadian song to sell a million copies, with all royalties donated to children’s hospitals. In 1950 it was used as the theme song for the March of Dimes national fund-raising campaign, and in 1986 in the Canadian feature My American Cousin. She died of a stroke in 1960 when only 49.

Contents of Biographical File

“Chasing the Bluebird.” Biographical information.
“The Story of Bluebird on my Windowsill,” History of Nursing News, June 2004, p. 9.
“There’s a Bluebird . . . “ published in “Those were the Days” in Swift Current by Jim Greenblat, ca. 1971, pp. 96-97.
“Bluebird on Your Windowsill.” The History of Metropolitan Vancouver, www.vancouverhistory.ca, 2006
“Bluebird on Your Windowsill”, Part 3. The Last Word, Chapter 26.
“Bluebird on Your Windowsill,” The Canadian Encyclopaedia.
Registration of death, Province of British Columbia—Elizabeth Clarke, July 23, 1960.
B.C. Archives, Vital Death Registration. John Wanstall Clark—husband.
Registration of death, Province of British Columbia, John Wanstall Clark, July 29, 1958.
“Chasing the Bluebird” By Beth Fitzpatrick, BC History of Nursing Society News, December 2010, pp. 9-10.
Music score: “There’s a Bluebird on Your Windowsill.”
Correspondence, 2005, 2010.
Obituary notices for Elizabeth Clarke, n.d. and John Wanstall Clarke, July 29, 1958.
Two photographs

Elizabeth Clarke wrote the song “There’s Bluebird on My Windowsill” while working as a nurse at the Children’s Hospital in Vancouver. She generously gave royalties to the hospital.

Sister Columkille (1890-1973)

Columkille, Sister (Alice Lane Hamer) (1890-1973)

Alice Hamer was born in England. Though an Anglican, in 1911 she converted to Catholicism and entered the Sisters of Providence at the Novitiate in Vancouver. She graduated from the St. Paul’s Hospital School of Nursing in 1919 and also received a Diploma as a Laboratory Technician in 1925 and a Bachelor of Science degree from Seattle University in 1937. She served as Director of St. Paul’s Hospital School of Nursing for fifteen years, and President of RNABC from 1949 to 1951.

In 1953 she left to take up various administrative positions at hospitals in Saskatchewan and Alberta, retiring in 1962. She was known for her “kindness and sensitivity, her ability to overlook faults and failings, and her adeptness at stressing the finer points in people’s characters and personalities”

Contents of Biographical File

Biography by Sister Therese Carnigan, March 1, 1993.
Chronology (1890-1973)
Photograph with note
Nomination, RNABC Memorial Book
Sister Columkille, S.P. Author unknown

Dr. Lyle Creelman (1908-2007)

Creelman, Dr. Lyle
(1908-2007)

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

Contents of biographical file

Biographical Information Profile with signed release.
CD containing photographs of Lyle Creelman’s artifacts held by the UBC School of Nursing, February 2009.Accompanying letter from Glennis Zilm.
E-mails, 2007.
Creelman chronology
Two letters of support for honorary doctorate, one by Helen Shore.
Tribute by Helen Shore, May 2, 1991.
“Lyle Creelman: an Appreciation,” ICN Calling, ND, p. 6.
Articles by Creelman
1. “Mental Hygiene in the Public Health Program”, The Canadian Nurse, 36 (10), (1940), 679-684.
2. “What is Public Health Nursing?”, The Canadian Nurse 37 (2), (February 1941), 111-112.
3. “What of the Future?”, The Canadian Nurse 39 (1), (1943), 35-37.
4. “Nurses Honored by Association Before Joining UNRRA, News-Herald, August 22, 1944.
5. “Letters to the Editor: With UNRRA in Germany”, The Canadian Nurse 41 (12), (1945), 986-987.
6. “With UNRRA in Germany”, The Canadian Nurse 43 (7), (1947), 532, 552-556.
7. “With UNRRA in Germany”, The Canadian Nurse 43 (8) (1947), 605-610.
8. “With UNRRA in Germany,” The Canadian Nurse 43 (9) (1947), 710-712.
9. “Lyle Creelman Writes”, The Canadian Nurse 46 (6), (June 1950), 477-478.
10. Baillie-Creelman Report, “Report of the Study Committee on Public Health Practice in Canada”, Toronto: Canadian Public Health Association, June 1950.
“Nursing Profiles”, The Canadian Nurse 44 (4), (1948), 294-295.
“Nursing Profiles,” The Canadian Nurse 45 (7), (1949), 525.
“Nursing Profiles,” The Canadian Nurse 50 (6), (1954), 484.
Lyle Creelman. No source cited, ca. 1972.
“Names,” The Canadian Nurse 68 (9), (1972), 54-55.
File on Creelman adapted from material prepared for the Du Gas book.
Obituaries, articles, funeral program
Photographs of Creelman, 1964, 1966. Creelman being congratulated by Governor-General James Michener following the receipt of her Order of Canada in 1971.
Certificates: Bridgeport High School (1926; Provincial Normal School (1928); First Class Teacher’s Certificate (1931); Vancouver General Hospital; University of British Columbia (1942).
Two colour photographs of figurine donated by Creelman to HoN group.
Susan Armstrong-Reid, “Lyle Morrison Creelman and Nursing’s New Frontiers, 1931-1945,” Margaret Allemang Centre for the School of Nursing, September 2007.
The following certificates are stored separately, rolled in a red cylindrical container: “Teacher’s Diploma for Writing-Special Merit (MacLean Method of Muscular Movement Writing (1928); RNABC Registration Certificate); Bachelor of Applied Science (Nursing), UBC (1936); Master of Arts, Columbia University (1939); Honorary Doctor of Laws, University of New Brunswick (1963).
List of artifacts dated May 21 2009.

Artifacts.

One porcelain Copenhagen nurse figurine.
One replica of Florence Nightingale Crimean lamp.
Box containing four small pieces of commemorative jewellery: Vancouver General Hospital Student Collar Pin (193-), Vancouver General Hospital Graduate Pin (1936); Silver Identification Bracelet (194-); and University of BC Diamond Jubilee Lapel Pin (1992).
Queen’s 50th Jubilee Medal (1952-2002).
Order of Canada Medal (1971) with lapel pin.
CD containing photographs of Lyle Creelman artifacts held by the UBC School of Nursing
List of artifacts that were sold or otherwise disposed of July 9, 2015.
Letter from Gloria Stephens of the Victoria General Hospital SON Alumni Association July 10, 2016 acknowledging donation of Creelman College of Registered Nurses NS Distinction Award.

Lavinia Crane (1923-2017)

Crane, Lavinia (1923-2017)

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

A member of the Victorian Order of Nurses, Crane graduated from the Vancouver General Hospital School of Nursing in 1950 and with a BSN from UBC in 1951. She received her Masters degree in public health from the University of Michigan and in 1961 was appointed consultant with the division in Victoria, given special responsibility for developing the BC home care program. She became director of nursing for the BC Health Department in 1975, initiating many research projects.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical note
Newspaper photograph, 1950.
Obituary, May 6, 2017.

Christina Critchley (1911-1982)

Critchley, Mrs. Christina Marion Louise “Critch” (1911-1982)

“Critch” moved with her family from Prince Albert to Vancouver in 1921. She graduated from Vancouver General Hospital in 1933 and worked at various hospitals in towns throughout BC. In 1963 she became head nurse receptionist at Britannia Beach, where she has been active with First Aid teams.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical information published in the Britannia Beach Newsletter, August 31, 1970.
Photocopied photograph

Shirley Dean (1934-1979)

Dean, Shirley (1934-1979)

shirley-dean Following Shirley’s graduation from VGH in 1955, she began work as a staff nurse at Surrey Memorial Hospital. She was promoted to Head Nurse and worked to develop standards of care and quality assurance programs. When she died of cancer at the age of 45, the newly purchased King George Private Hospital was named the Shirley Dean Pavilion in her honour.

Contents of Biographical File

1. Article from History of Nursing News, June 2004.
2. Graduation photograph, 1955.
3. Photograph of the Shirley Dean Pavilion at the Surrey Memorial Hospital.

Joan Doree (1919-2016)

Doree, Joan Florence Alice (1919-2016)

See Oral History files, Fonds 18, Series 3, Subseries 8, AUOH25

In 1993 Joan established the Mabel and Henry Doree Family Memorial Bursary in honour of her parents. She credits them with enabling her to become a nurse by giving her the financial support she needed to enter St. Paul’s Hospital School of Nursing in Saskatoon in 1937. She later received her BA from UBC and a Masters in Public Health from the University of California in Berkeley.

After graduation she worked as a staff nurse in Prelate, Lethbridge, and VGH. During the war she served with the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps at the Basingstoke Neurological and Plastic Surgery Hospital in Hampshire, England. After the war she worked in Vancouver at Shaughnessy Hospital, St. Paul’s, the Vancouver Health Department, and for the Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children. Joan is a founding member of the Registered Nurses Foundation of British Columbia and served two terms as Director on the RNABC. After her retirement she spent ten years as a volunteer tutor at the Carnegie Community Center.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical Information Profile with signed release
“Nurses’ War Experiences Vivid in Remembrance,” The Vancouver Sun, p. A17c.
Biography from “1940’s Amazing Alumni Stories” on Internet
“Joan Doree Establishes New Bursary for Aspiring Nurses”, RNFBC Newsletter, 2012-1013, Winter Edition.
“Tuberculosis Care in the Community in the late 1940’s and Early 1950’s” by Joan Doree, unpublished paper, October 1998.
Photograph of Doree, taken 1944 or 1945.
“Joan Doree: Nursing for Different Times”
2016 Nursing Award of Excellence
Olive Caldwell Lee, “Second World War Nurse Shares Heartbreaking Memories from Overseas”. For CBC News November 11, 2016.
Obituary

Jean Dorgan (1910-2008)

Dorgan, Jean (1910-2008)

See Oral History Files, fonds 18, Series 3, Subseries 8, AUOH25

Jean Dorgan was born in New Westminster and graduated from Vancouver General Hospital School of Nursing in 1934 and with a BASc(N) from UBC also in 1934. After several years working in Vancouver’s East End, Jean enlisted in the Royal Canadian Medical Corps leaving in 1943 as a member of the staff of a 200-bed casualty clearing hospital. After serving in Italy, they were transferred to Holland until the end of the war.

After the war she attended the University of Toronto School of Social Work, from which she graduated with a Masters in Social Work in 1949. Following graduation she was employed as a field work supervisor in the Toronto Welfare Department. From 1956 until her retirement in 1975 she worked in various departments as a vocational rehabilitation consultant.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical Information Profile
St. Peter’s Church biography
Correspondence. — 2002-2003.
Wanda Chow, “Care at the Battlefront”, Weekend Newsleader, November 2, 2002, pp. 1, 10.
Newspaper obituary
“In Memoriam”, Trek, Spring 2009, p. 48.
Theresa McManus, “Longtime City Volunteer, Resident Dies,” The Record, December 13, 2008, p. A12.
Two photographs. – 1944 ; 1992.

Artifacts

Four gold Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps badges with caduceus.
Two gold badges

Florence Dougherty (1912- 2003)

Dougherty, Florence (1912- 2003)

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

Florence Dougherty grew up in Roblin, Manitoba, graduating from the St. Boniface Hospital School of Nursing in 1938. She subsequently worked as a general duty nurse at St. Luke’s Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota and the Good Samaritan Hospital in Portland, Oregon. From 1943 to 1946 she was a nursing sister in the RCMC, an experience she describes as the most interesting and satisfying of her nursing career. After the war, she moved to Vancouver where she was Educational Director at Shaughnessy Hospital from 1947 to 1968 and Assistant Secretary of Nursing from 1968 to 1973.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical Information Profile with photographs taken in 1938 and 1993.
Background information
Funeral program
Obituary

Daggitt, Mildred Emily (1929-2016)

Mildred graduated from Calgary General Hospital in 1952. After brief times nursing at the Children’s Hospital in Calgary and Mt. Joseph’s Hospital in London Ontario, she moved to Germany with her RCAF husband. Here she set up the first maternity ward and nursery at the Canadian base hospital.

After returning to Canada she worked in a French Hospital in Ottawa, but left nursing in 1959 to raise her four children. In 1977 she returned to nursing, working in the Cartier House Care Centre in Coquitlam, becoming head nurse. She retired from full-time nursing at the age of 69, but continued pursuing her interest as a seamstress.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical information profile
Signed biographical agreement form
Obituary, The Province, August 26, 2016.
2 photographs (coloured)
Letter from Ethel Warbinek to Wendy Hawkins (daughter) and from Hawkins to Warbinek (November 2, 2016)

Mary Thurley Duck (1929-1997)

Duck, Mary Thurley (1929-1997)

See also artifact collection

Mary was born in Victoria, graduating from the Royal Jubilee Hospital School of Nursing in 1951. In 1961 she completed her post Grad course in Psychiatric Nursing at Allen Memorial Institute in Montreal, where she served as a Staff Nurse, Head Nurse and Assistant Supervisor.. From 1966-1973 she was Assistant Supervisor at the Centennial Pavilion, Vancouver General Hospital, and from 1975-1978 Building Supervisor at the Heather Pavilion, then Director of Nursing Administration at the Vancouver General Hospital. She was 24th President of RNABC.

After her retirement she moved to Shawinigan Lake, BC, where she devoted her energies to raising Dalmatians, becoming active in promoting sensible breeding.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical Information Profile with signed release.
Transcripts of University Entrance Examinations, 1946 and 1947.
St. John Ambulance Association First Aid Certificate, March 1951.
Registered Nurse License, State of California, May 1954.
License to Practice Nursing in the Province of Quebec, February 1960.
Diploma from Royal Victoria Hospital, 1961.
Microfiche of Sir George Williams College transcript, 1961.
NLN State Board Test Pool Examinations Psychiatric Nursing Transcript, 1961.
RNABC transcript of RN exam, undated.
RNABC Certificate of Registration.
Obituary, The Vancouver Sun, October 21, 1997.
Photocopies and originals of two photographs

Beverly DuGas (1923-2012)

DuGas, Beverly (1923-2012)

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

Contents of biographical file

Biographical Information Profile
Curriculum Vitae
Biography from “1940’s Amazing Alumni Stories” on Internet
“Candidates for Vice-President,” The Canadian Nurse (1972), p. 28.
“Candidates for President elect”, The Canadian Nurse (1974), 70 (4), p. 22.
“Names,” The Canadian Nurse (June 1973), p. 44.
Beverley W. DuGas (biography)
Supporting materials for DuGas’ nomination to The Order of Canada.
Colour photograph
Obituary by Ethel Warbinek, BC History of Nursing Society (Spring 2013), pp. 1-2.
Fitzpatrick, Beth. “Remembering Beverly DuGas”, BC History of Nursing Society (Spring 2013), p. 4.
Supporting materials for DuGas’ nomination to the Order of British Columbia (1999)
“A Home of Our Own”, Nursing BC, Nov.-Dec. 1999 (31, No. 5), p.9.
Card and note to Sheila Zerr, July 13, 2000.
“We Celebrate with Beverly DuGas,” History of Nursing News, October 2003, pp.1.
Memorial Service Program
Transcript of tribute
Obituary from The Globe and Mail, November 24, 2012, p.S19.

Margaret Duffield (1884-1969)

Duffield, Margaret (1884-1969)

After her early education in Ireland, Margaret went to South Africa where she graduated from the Kimberly School of Nursing in Kimberley in 1908. She returned to England where she became staff nurse at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital and Queen’s Hospital in London, England.

She emigrated to Canada in 1913 where she joined the CAMC, receiving the Royal Red Cross medal for outstanding service. On her return to Canada she spent the next 25 years in nursing leadership positions across Canada. She completed the University of Toronto’s public health nursing program in 1923, and after five years as Superintendent of the VON London office assumed the same position in Vancouver.

She advocated that all racial groups receive the same treatment, lobbying BC Schools of Nursing to admit Japanese and Chinese women. These graduates operated clinics and made home visits in the Japanese and Chinese communities, effectively limiting tuberculosis cases and providing better care for babies and preschoolers.

She was also active in professional organizations, becoming president of the Vancouver Registered Nurses’ Association in 1928-1929, and President of the RNABC from 1938-1943.

Contents of Biographical File

Background biographical information. Including CV and photocopied photograph.
Nomination to the RNABC Memorial Book
Duffield, Margaret. “The Advantages of a Post-Graduate Course for Public Health Nurses,” The Canadian Nurse (1931), pp. 426-427.
Duffield, Margaret. “Why Draw the Line,” The Canadian Nurse (September 1939), pp. 513-515.
Duffield, Margaret “Nursing Care for Racial Groups,” The Canadian Nurse (1941), pp. 337-8.
Wismer, M. “Margaret Duffield Retires,” The Canadian Nurse (1944), p. 326.
Information copied from The RNABC Presidents’ Book from the North Shore chapter.

Deidre Duggan (1932-

Duggan (nee Lane), Deidre V. (1932-

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

Deidre grew up in Montreal where she attended McGill University and took nursing at the Royal Victoria Hospital School of Nursing. She worked as a nurse/stewardess for Canadian Pacific Airlines from 1954-1957, and remained actively involved in her community after her marriage in 1957 and move to Vancouver. She raised six children.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical Information Profile and signed release.
Colour photograph

Margaret Willard Jensen (1921-1999)

Duncan Jensen, Margaret Willard (1921-1999)

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

Born in Revelstoke, Margaret graduated from VGH in 1946 and the next year received BA and BScN degrees from UBC. She served on the UBC faculty from 1950-1963, and received a Kellogg Foundation Fellowship to attend the University of Chicago. She attended the University of Berkeley for her doctoral studies, and from 1964 to 1983 taught at San Jose State University.

Her extensive publications on maternity and family nursing include Maternity Care for Nurse and Family, which won eight book of the year awards from the American Journal of Nursing, and was used in nursing schools throughout the world. In 1978 she was the first UBC graduate to give the Marion Woodward Lecture at UBC. She was named “Nurse of the Year” by March of Dimes in 1978-1979. In 2000 a Scholarship fund was established in her name at UBC.

Contents of Biographical File

Curriculum Vitae
Two e-mails, 2000.
Supporting biography for nomination for the RNABC Memorial Book prepared by Beth Fitzpatrick.
“Nursing Perspective Seen for the ‘Expanding Family’”, RNABC News (1978) 10 (6), p. 10.
Two photocopied colour photographs.

Nancy Dunn

Nancy Dunn Born in England, Nancy came to Canada in 1909. She graduated from the Hamilton City Hospital in 1909 and worked in Ottawa during a typhoid epidemic that year. She enlisted during WW I, serving in various locations for the Queen Alexandria Nursing Service.

After graduating from the Public Health program at UBC, Dunn became the first Public Health nurse in the Peace River country. Here she travelled by horseback in summer and cutter in winter to provide medical care. In 1934 she was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of her outstanding contribution to nursing services. Later she worked in Fort Nelson and Telegraph Creek, where dog teams were often her mode of transportation.

Contents of Biographical File

Gerald Clare, “Nancy Dunn, O.B.E., Pioneer in Peace River Public Health,” 2001.
Excerpt from “A First-Hand Look at Public Health in the Peace, 1932”, by Nancy Dunn, originally published in the Public Health Nurse’s Bulletin.
Mrs. C. Hind, Nancy Dunn, first Public Health Nurse in the District”. Includes poem by Jean Gething, “Our School Nurse—Miss Dunn”.
B&w photocopied photograph

Rachel Margaret Dwyer (1918- 2015)

Dwyer (nee Smith), Rachel Margaret (1918- 2015)

Rachel Dwyer graduated in nursing from St. Eugene’s Mission in Cranbrook in 1941. She married three months after her graduation, but apart from a year in the Claresholm Hospital while her husband was doing army duty overseas, did not work actively as a nurse. She tutored a number of students.

Contents of Biographical File

Biographical Information Profile
Obituary
Photograph

Dick, Tania

Contents of Biographical File

Chapman, Jacqueline “Jackie” (1935-2009)

Contents of Biographical File

Cannon (nee Caldwell), Frances Jean (1941-2005)

Contents of Biographical File

Calnan, Rob

Contents of Biographical file

Buckland (nee Wilshire), Gertrude “Billie” (1881-1961)

Contents of Biographical File

Buckingham, Stephanie

Contents of Biographical File

Bamford, Muriel Ruth (1918-2017)

Contents of Biographical File

Adamson, (nee Stewart) Grace “Torchy” (1927-1992)

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

Contents of Biographical File

Albee (nee Brownlee) Beryl K. (1921-2012)

Contents of Biographical File

Anderson (nee Schierbeck), Barbara (1916-

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

Contents of Biographical File

Anderson (nee Souther), Hazel Hope (1916- 2001)

Contents of Biographical File

Anderson (nee Dolphin) Maude Irene (1915-1995)

Contents of Biographical File

Angus (nee McArdle), Monica (1932-

Contents of Biographical File

Attridge, Dr. Carolyn (1936-2010)

Contents of Biographical File

Barff, Patricia (1910-1987)

Contents of Biographical File

Baumgart, Dr. Alice J.

Contents of Biographical File

Belecky, Olga Earl (Sister Claire) (1911-2006)

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

Contents of Biographical File

Benedict, Frances Ellen(1902-1997)

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

Contents of Biographical File

Berg (nee Hughes), Angela Joan (1936-2004)

Contents of Biographical File

Bernez (nee Weir), Phyllis (1925- 2014)

See also Oral History files, Fonds 18, Series 3,Subseries 8 Audiocassette tape AUOH22, CDOH31

Contents of Biographical File

Blais, Lois M. (1938-2008)

See Oral History files, Fonds 18, Series 3, Subseries 8, AUOH23, CDOH39

See also fonds 23

Contents of biographical file

Blake (nee Jackson), Vivian Mona (1927-

Contents of Biographical File

Boyle, Marion (1925-

Contents of Biographical File

Breeze, Elizabeth G. (1881-1938)

Contents of Biographical File

Brown (nee Wright) SharleyBryce (1879-1944)

See also Memories of Scharley Wright Brown and Helen Randal by Jacqueline Ratzlaff in book collection

Contents of Biographical File

Bullen, James

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

Contents of Biographical File

Campbell, Helen (1902-

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

Contents of Biographical File

Campbell (nee Fergusson), Joyce May (1921-2013)

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

Contents of Biographical File

Campbell, Margaret (1923-1992)

See also fonds 22

Contents of Biographical File

Campbell, Mary Palma (1879-1958)

Contents of Biographical File

Joyce Campkin (1924-2021)

See Oral History files, Fonds 18, Series 3, Subseries 8, AUOH24, CDOH40

Contents of Biographical File

Capelle, Pauline “Polly” (1906-1991)

Contents of Biographical File

Carroll, Barbara Louise (1943- )

See Oral History files, Fonds 18, Series 3, Subseries 8, AUOH42, CDOH34

Contents of Biographical File

Anderson (nee Schierbeck), Barbara
(1916-

Anderson (nee Souther), Hazel Hope
(1916- 2001)

Angus (nee McArdle), Monica
(1932-

Attridge, Dr. Carolyn
(1936-2010)

See also Oral History files, Fonds 18, Series 3,Subseries 8
Audiocassette tape AUOH22, CDOH31

Celestine, Sister Mary
(Anna Knapp) (1918-1995)

Creelman, Dr. Lyle
(1908-2007)

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