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- 1976-2005
Series consists of recordings of speeches, presentations, and interviews by Verna Splane and others, recorded on audiocassettes.
Series consists of recordings of speeches, presentations, and interviews by Verna Splane and others, recorded on audiocassettes.
Canadian Nursing Association subseries
Subseries reflect Verna’s involvement with the Canadian Nursing Association. Records include correspondence, articles, meeting minutes, and by-laws.
Chief Nursing Officer Study series
Series includes records of the research and writing of Chief Nursing Officers in National Ministries of Health: Focal Points for Nursing Leadership, published by Richard and Verna Splane in 1994. Records include correspondence, reports, notes, articles, drafts, travel pamphlets, speech transcripts, and interview transcripts. Series is partially organized by region visited and arranged by the donor.
Series includes records from various speeches given and events attended by Richard Splane. Records include correspondence, speech transcripts, and government reports.
Series includes records of the archival research done for Richard Splane about his family and other genealogical work done. Records include correspondence, reports from the archival researcher, photocopies of archival documents, family stories, and wills.
Series reflects Richard Splane’s work on the Mincome Project and the Canada Assistance Plan for the Canadian federal government. Records include reports, correspondence, meeting minutes and agenda, government pamphlets and agenda, newsletters, and notes.
Series reflects the Splane’s home life and social events they hosted and attended. Records include guest lists, invitations, correspondence, home repair reports, newspaper articles, programs, and newsletters.
Series includes records about the various awards received by Richard Splane, including honorary degrees from the University of Toronto, MacMaster University, Wilfred Laurier University, and UBC. In addition, records include correspondence, event programs, speech transcripts, and certificates.
Series reflects various honours, awards, and degrees earned by Verna Splane. Records include correspondence, pamphlets, notes, certificates, agendas, and speech transcripts.
Series includes records about Richard and Verna’s membership in the Order of Canada, their UBC joint honorary degree, and their entry into the Canadian Who’s Who. Records include information sheets and pamphlets, newsletters, correspondence, biographical summaries, and speech transcripts.
International Council of Nurses subseries
Subseries reflects Verna’s involvement with the ICN. Records include conference proceedings, notes, correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings, and programs.
International Social Service subseries
Subseries reflect Verna’s involvement with the ISS. Records include correspondence, reports, by-laws, and meeting minutes.
Series reflects various events about nursing Verna attended or coordinated. Records include correspondence, programs, and speech transcripts.
Personal Correspondence series
Series pertains to Richard and Verna Splane's correspondence with various individuals and organizations. Records include correspondence, invitations, programs, curriculum vitae, and obituaries.
Personal Correspondence series
Series reflects correspondence kept by Verna Huffman Splane. Records include correspondence, articles, newspaper clippings, and curriculum vitae.
Personal Correspondence series
Series includes correspondence kept by Richard Splane. Records include correspondence, curriculum vitae, articles and newspaper clippings, programs, obituaries, and reports. This series has mainly been held as arranged by Richard Splane.
Records reflect Richard Splane’s personal and social life. Records include alumni newsletters, correspondence, articles, ephemera, and newsletters. File 23-20 consists of the contents of the former Richard B. Splane fonds.
Records reflect Verna’s social and personal life. Records include correspondence, biographies, articles, drafts, research, and final copies of her memoir.
Series reflects Richard Splane’s interest and involvement in various Canadian political events and issues, including the Meech Lake constitutional negotiations. Records include articles, newspaper clippings, government reports and documents, and correspondence.
Principal Nursing Officer series
Series reflects Verna’s work as the Principal Nursing Officer of Canada. Records include correspondence, school documents, budgets, notes, meeting minutes, programs, reports, and newsletters.
Professional Associations series
Series includes records from the various professional associations Richard Splane was involved in. These associations include the Canadian Association of Social Workers, the British Columbia Association of Social Workers, and the International Association of Social Service Workers. Records include newsletters, reports, correspondence, meeting minutes and agenda, articles, and event programs.
Professional Associations series
Series reflect Verna Splane’s involvement in nursing professional associations. Records include correspondence, meeting minutes, newsletters, and reports. Subseries are based on those professional organizations with which Verna was involved.
Registered Nurses Association of British Columbia subseries
Subseries reflect Verna’s involvement with the RNABC. Records include information pamphlets, meeting minutes, correspondence, notes, and reports.
Registered Nurses Association of Ontario subseries
Subseries reflect Verna’s involvement with the RNAO. Records include correspondence.
Richard Beverley Splane sous-fonds
Work records reflect Splane's work in Alberta, his time in the RCAF, his lengthy career in the federal government, and his time at UBC. Personal records reflect Splane's social life and interest in social welfare outside his profession. These records include correspondence, curriculum vitae, photographs (print and digital), notes, articles and publications, meeting minutes and agenda, and certificates.
Splane, Richard B.
Richard Splane and Verna Huffman Splane fonds
Fonds contains records pertaining to the separate careers and personal lives of both Verna Huffman Splane and Richard Splane, and their life together as a couple. Work records reflect Richard’s work in Alberta, his time in the RCAF, and his lengthy career in the federal government as well as Verna’s work for WHO, the federal government, and as a faculty member at UBC and the University of Victoria. These records include government reports, meeting minutes and agenda, correspondence, articles, course outlines and notes. Personal records reflect both Richard and Verna’s social lives and interest in social welfare outside of their careers. These records include correspondence, curriculum vitae, photographs (print and digital), notes, articles and publications, meeting minutes and agenda, and certificates.
The records reflecting Richard and Verna’s joint life has been arranged into eight series: Chief Nursing Officers Study, Home and Social Life, Personal Correspondence, University Hill Congregation, Social Welfare Work, Honours and Awards, Photographs, and Audio-visual. The fonds also includes two sous-fonds: the Richard Beverly Splane sous-fonds and the Verna Huffman Splane sous-fonds.
Splane, Richard B.
Series includes schoolwork completed by Richard Splane at McMaster University, the University of Toronto, and the London School of Economics. Records include correspondence, transcripts, graduate school applications, essays, and notes.
Service and Community Organization series
Series reflects Richard Splane’s involvement in various local and international organizations such as the Social Planning and Research Council of British Columbia, the United Nations Association of Canada, the World Federalists, International Conferences on Social Development, and UNICEF. Records include meeting minutes and agenda, correspondence, reports, and articles.
Subseries reflects Verna’s involvement with the Sigma Theta Tau society. Records include correspondence and speech transcripts.
Social Welfare and Nursing Consultation and Events series
Series reflects the work Richard and Verna Splane did outside of their professional careers and after retirement to further social welfare and nursing causes in Canada and internationally, as well as related events they attended or hosted. Records include correspondence, posters, notes, curriculum vitae, and articles.
Series reflects Verna’s teaching at the University of Victoria, the University of Alberta, and UBC. Records include correspondence, articles, lecture notes and course syllabi.
Series reflects Verna’s involvement with the United Church of Canada. Records include correspondence and notes.
University Hill Congregation series
Series includes records about Richard and Verna Splane’s involvement with the University Hill Congregation of the United Church. Records include correspondence, biographical summaries, and presentation transcripts.
University of British Columbia series
Series reflects Richard Splane’s work at the University of British Columbia, primarily the Social Welfare and Human Settlement symposium hosted by the School of Social Work in conjunction with the Habitat Conference in 1976. Records include correspondence, articles, school history notes, reports, program proposals, and brochures.
Verna Huffman Splane sous-fonds
The records in this sous-fonds reflect Verna Huffman Splane's work for the World Health Organization, the federal government, and as a faculty member at UBC and the University of Victoria. These records include government reports, meeting minutes, correspondence, articles, course outlines and notes. In addition, personal records reflect Verna's social life and interest in social welfare outside her career. These records include correspondence, curriculum vitae, photographs (print and digital), notes, articles and publications, meeting minutes and agenda, and certificates.
Splane, Verna Huffman
World Health Organization series
Series reflects Verna Huffman Splane’s work with the World Health Organization as a nursing consultant. Records include correspondence, newspaper clippings, notes, reports, and invitations.
Series reflects various writing projects completed by Richard Splane. Records include drafts, final articles and book chapters, correspondence, and book reviews.