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Call for Papers!! CSHM
The 2021 joint meeting of the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine and the Canadian...
We Remember Nursing Sister Shirley Ridalls (1931-2019)
Shirley Ridalls graduated from the Calgary General Hospital School of Nursing in 1954 and shortly...
Fort St. John new elementary school named after pioneer nurse Anne Roberts Young
School District 60 received more than 70 public submissions about a name for Fort St. John's new...
Old Hastings Mill Store Museum Opens
Survivors of Vancouver's great fire of 1886 took refuge in Hasting's Mill Store. The...
Dr. Shirley Stinson passes June 4, 2020
Dr. Shirley Marie Stinson, OC, AOE, RN, EdD, LLD (Hon), DSc (Hon), DSL (Hon) Shirley Marie...
Dissertation Summary of eroding public health nurse role
Very interesting article shared in the Community Health Nurses of BC Newsletter...this...
An Emerging Profession: Psychiatric Nursing at Essondale, 1913-1973
A recent article published during Nurse’s Week, (Tri-City news May 14, 2020) celebrates...
National Nursing Week
Monday May 11, 2020 marks the start of National Nursing Week in Canada. The week, which began in...
Maxine Bredt passes
It is with great sadness we post the passing of Maxine Bredt who turned 100 years on September 21,...
Opera tells the story of HMHS Llandovery Castle
The HMHS Llandovery Castle was one of five Canadian military hospital ships during the First World...
: Call for News: CAHN-ACHN Spring 2020 Newsletter
We salute our health professionals during this crisis, especially our nurses. We also hope that...
Helen Mussallem’s WW2 nursing uniform on display
Lynette Harper, a niece of Dr. Helen Mussallem, recently contacted us to let us know that one of...