by admin | Sep 18, 2021 | HON News
Jessie Mantle was born in Chemainus and received her diploma in nursing in 1950 from the Royal Jubilee Hospital School of Nursing in Victoria. Her professional nursing career spanned 40 years and her educational accomplishments included a BSN from McGill in 1966, a...
by admin | Jun 1, 2020 | HON News, Uncategorized
Very interesting article shared in the Community Health Nurses of BC Newsletter…this dissertation submitted by: Megan Kirk RN, BScN,MSc,PhD(c) toward her PhD. The whole newsletter in fact, made for interesting reading during Nurses week and Year of the Nurse. ...
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 | Jun 5, 2019 | Awards, HON News, Uncategorized
Joanne Whitelaw, daughter of the late June Newton, sent us an e-mail telling us that her mother’s friend and fellow nursing sister Maxine Bredt, had recently received a Quilt of Valor. Maxine, a graduate of the Royal Jubilee Hospital served with her classmate June...
by admin | Jun 4, 2018 | Awards, HON News, Uncategorized
May 28, 2018 The BC History of Nursing Society is the recipient of the 2017 Best Website award. Each year, the BCHF offers a certificate and cash prize of $250 for the best website on a topic of British Columbia history. The award honours individual or group volunteer...
by admin | Jun 23, 2017 | HON News, Uncategorized
An ‘ethnic’ souvenir for a WWI Nurse has brought the Curator at the Museum of Greek Folk Art, Athens, Greece and the BCHNS together. Curator Eleni Papathoma, M.A. contacted the BCHNS thru “contact us” on our website enquiring about a Nursing...
