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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

1. Biographical Information Profile with signed release
2. “Nurses’ War Experiences Vivid in Remembrance,” The Vancouver Sun, p. A17c.
3. Biography from “1940’s Amazing Alumni Stories” on Internet
4. “Joan Doree Establishes New Bursary for Aspiring Nurses”, RNFBC Newsletter, 2012-1013, Winter Edition.
5. “Tuberculosis Care in the Community in the late 1940’s and Early 1950’s” by Joan  Doree, unpublished paper, October 1998.
6. Photograph of Doree, taken 1944 or 1945.
7. “Joan Doree: Nursing for Different Times”
8. 2016 Nursing Award of Excellence
9. Olive Caldwell Lee, “Second World War Nurse Shares Heartbreaking Memories from Overseas”. For CBC News November 11, 2016.
10. Obituary

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

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

Artifacts

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

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

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

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

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

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

1. Biographical Information Profile and signed release.
2. Colour photograph

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

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

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

1. Gerald Clare, “Nancy Dunn, O.B.E., Pioneer in Peace River Public Health,” 2001.
2. 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.
3. Mrs. C. Hind, Nancy Dunn, first Public Health Nurse in the District”.  Includes poem by Jean Gething, “Our School Nurse—Miss Dunn”.
4. B&w photocopied photograph

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

1. Biographical Information Profile
2. Obituary
3. Photograph

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

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