by admin | Dec 19, 2022 | Events
LET US CHERISH FAMILY AND FRIENDS THIS HOLIDAY SEASON!
by admin | Nov 20, 2022 | Awards, Member News
Dr. Sally Thorne recently received the Canadian Association of Nurses in Oncology (CANO/ACIO) Lifetime Achievement Award. The mission of the organization is to advance oncology nursing excellence through practice, education, research, and leadership. Dr. Thorne is “a...
by admin | Aug 8, 2022 | Events
In March of 2022, the entire archival collection of the BC History of Nursing Society was transferred to the University of British Columbia Library Rare Books and Special Collections (RBSC). The Society fonds includes information on individual nurses, nursing groups,...
by admin | May 7, 2022 | Events
May 9-15, 2022: The National Nursing Week annual celebrations take place from the Monday to the Sunday of the same week as Florence Nightingale’s birthday, May 12. In 1971, ICN designated May 12, the birthday of nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale, as...
by admin | Oct 26, 2021 | Member News
NOVEMBER 2021 REMEMBRANCE DAY TRIBUTE Nina Rumen graduated from St Paul’s Hospital School of Nursing in 1949. She joined the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps in 1951. Her military career took her to Churchill, Manitoba (1952-54) when Canada’s north was...
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 | Oct 31, 2020 | Events
Shirley Ridalls graduated from the Calgary General Hospital School of Nursing in 1954 and shortly after joined the Royal Canadian Medical Corps as a reserve nursing sister. Her job was to train medical assistants to provide care to wounded and sick soldiers. After a...
by admin | Jul 8, 2020 | Events
Survivors of Vancouver’s great fire of 1886 took refuge in Hasting’s Mill Store. The building survived the fire and exists today as the Old Hasting’s Mill Store Museum, Vancouver’s oldest building. Emily Patterson, Vancouver’s pioneer first...
by admin | Jan 9, 2020 | Suggested Reading
Service on the Skeena is a biography of pioneer physician Horace Wrinch by author Geoff Mynett and published by Ronsdale Press. Dr. Wrinch was the first qualified physician in the northern interior of BC and provided medical care in the region for over thirty years....
by admin | Oct 31, 2019 | Events, Member News
For Remembrance Day, the Surrey Museum will once again present the one-hour presentation ‘Canadian Nurses in War Time,’ by Renée Saklikar and Ishbel Newstead. The poem-play, written by Surrey’s former poet laureate, is an artistic response to an exhibit about...