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Seasons Greetings
Our Best Wishes to all members and friends of the BCHNS for a Happy and Healthy 2021.
Honourary Member Helen Shore passed from our midst on November 3, 2020
We are saddened to learn that Helen Shore has died at the age of 95. A graduate of the Vancouver...
Virtual 52nd Annual Marion Woodward Lecture
Thanks to Sally Thorne and Glennis Zilm for the following information and links. The 52nd Annual...
Street Art Murals Highlight Pandemic 2020
These impressive murals were found and photographed in Victoria by Margaret Scaia. They are a...
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...