In 2002 Blais responded to an advertisement in the Vancouver Courier for a “senior scribe”. Her column, titled “On the Seniors Side” was generally published the first Wednesday of each month until 2008, although it does not appear every month. It deals mostly with issues related to aging.

Subseries consists of originals as they appeared in the Courier, along with some copies. Dates and page numbers have been identified wherever possible.

Subseries consists of three copies of the newsletter, with an article by Blais in each.

Subseries consists of a 2003 unsuccessful submission to the Vancouver International Writers’ and Readers’ Festival Poetry & Short Story Contest, “Older Road Travel”, which appeared in the Vancouver Courier July 14, 2006, and a letter from the organization.

Subseries consists of two essays written by Niskala while a student at McGill University, and general material on courses taken.

Subsubseries consists of six laser prints, five with a text describing the content. Subjects include “A Blood Transfusion”; “No. 22 Canadian General Hospital”; “Landing in Normandy: Nursing Sisters of No. 10 Canadian General Hospital”; “Members of the Field Surgical Unit —Lt. (N/S) Stephen (Rt.) and Lt (N/S) Hackland; “Mary C. Young and A. Kemp, Lt (N/S) of 12 Canadian General Hospital—in “full marching order”.

Includes one folder of program, abstracts and other information for this conference held at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver June 16-18, 2016, hosted by the UBC Consortium for Nursing History and the BC History of Nursing Society.

Subseries consists of audio cassettes containing discussions, interviews and lectures relating to nursing topics. These materials are not strongly related to any subfonds so are arranged under this subseries.

Beginning in 1964 Directors of Nursing from the Lower Mainland Hospitals met four times a year to discuss common concerns. Mrs. Lillies was key in the early organization. “Topics discussed at meetings included evaluation of personnel, staff orientation, role and licensing of practical nurses, education of clinical nurse specialists and principles and methods of nursing research”.

Subseries consists of one file of minutes of three meetings from 1964-1967 and other material, including a history of the organization from 1964 to 1979.