by admin | May 21, 2020 | Displays, Uncategorized
A recent article published during Nurse’s Week, (Tri-City news May 14, 2020) celebrates Psychiatric Nursing. Andrea Tarnawsky Assistant Archivist for the City of Coquitlam Archives researched and wrote the online exhibit An Emerging Profession: Psychiatric Nursing at...
by admin | Mar 4, 2020 | Displays, Events, Uncategorized
Lynette Harper, a niece of Dr. Helen Mussallem, recently contacted us to let us know that one of her aunt’s WW2 nursing uniforms was on display at the Maple Ridge Museum and Community Archives. The Museum’s curator (Shea Henry) shared pictures of the displayed uniform...
by admin | Mar 1, 2020 | Displays, Events, Uncategorized
Gloria Stephens, a former BCHNS member left BC a few years back and established the Nova Scotia History of Nursing Group. She was recently interviewed by the CBC Atlantic News that featured the group’s archives located at the former Victoria General Hospital...
by admin | Jun 16, 2019 | Conferences, Displays, Member News, Uncategorized
The joint conference of the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine and the Canadian Association for the History of Nursing, held during the Congress 2019 at UBC from June 1 – 3, was host to a special program celebrating the centenary of the UBC School of...
by admin | Jun 16, 2019 | Conferences, Displays, HON News
2019 BCHF Annual Conference June 6 – 9, 2019, Courtenay, Comox and Cumberland B.C. Glennis Zilm and Nan Martin were delighted to represent our Society at yet another very successful BC Historical Federation conference in...
by admin | May 25, 2016 | Displays, Events
VGH Alumnae & BCHNS celebrate Nurses Week together on Florence Nightingale’s Birthday, May 12, 2016. Cheryl Entwistle from BCHNS & Norma Guttormsson, Executive Secretary VGH shared the display table. Thank you to these ladies for representing us! Photo...
