Subseries consists of books, postcards and notecards related to nursing, mostly from England.

This committee was established to respond to the Kermacks Report, to identify the variables and potential costs to educational institutions both for development and for implementation of post basic programs.

Subseries consists of minutes, correspondence, and reports.

Subseries consists of notes concerning procedures for the biennial committee and minutes of preparatory meetings held.

Subseries consists of minutes, correspondence, reports and working papers of the Community Health Nurses’ Group’s Planning Committee, which was responsible for planning workshops, conferences, and related events.

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”.

Plans for offering a Doctorate in nursing grew out of the context that nursing is accountable for the development of the body of knowledge upon which its service to society is based. The first students were admitted to the School of Nursing in 1991.

Subseries consists of records related to the ongoing administration of the PhD program in the School of Nursing at UBC, including the integration of international and interdisciplinary students and the delivery of courses. Reports, memoranda, and minutes of the Planning and Coordinating Committees are included. The PhD Planning Committee was an ad hoc committee of the Graduate Curriculum Committee.

Subseries consists of photographs related to the UBC School of Nursing PhD program.

Subseries consists of a photographs of a trip to Maligne Lake, Jasper National Park, with a number of other photographs.

Subseries consists of pamphlets and photographs related to local and broad nursing topics.

Pages of history is an informal way of peer recognition of B.C. nurses deemed to have made a significant contribution to their profession. Anyone could be nominated on payment of a fee.

Records consist of some correspondence and a brief biography and photograph of each person accepted. Many also have biographical files.

Included are: Dr. Beryl K.A. Albee, Barbara Joan Beatty, Ruth Biley, Betty Black, Vivian Mona Blake, Beverly Brewer, Muriel Ruth Brodie, Susan Mary Bruce, Anne S. Cavers, Helen (Betty) Cawston, Ada Mary Conibear, Sheila Copperthwaite, Margaret (Maggie) Diehl, Beverly Marie Witter DuGas, Margaret Duncan, Catherine Anne Ebbehoj, Jean Eilers, Joyce Fergusson, Barbara Gillies, Beryl Golds, Jean Kirstine Griffith, Jane Hassen Sister Mary Victor, Karen Louise Hicks, Dianna Jackson, Margaret Murray Jackson, Marilyn (Lyn) Jackson, Kathleen Gail Jensen, Gwen Kavanagh, Dorothy J. Kergin, Gertrude Richards Ladner, Catherine (Kay) Leask, Clara Lim, Verna L. Lister, Dorothy Byers Logan, Jean Loy, C. Elsie Irene MacDonald, Nancy Lisbeth Malloy, Mary McGovern. Ethel Moorehouse, Esther Paulson, Jessie May Reynolds, Laura Reynolds, Mary L. Richmond, Nana Rogerson, RCH School of Nursing, Nina Rumen, Ruby Siemens, Helen L. Jill Thompson Boudreau, Victoria Louise Tribbeck, VGH School of Nursing, Violet Wait, Ethel Warbinek, Winifred C. Waters, Eva “Billie” Williamson, Carol Lenore Winter, Alma L.B. Witter, Alice Lillian Wright, Sheila Rankin Zerr, Glennis Zilm. Edith Landell Lees, Gloria Stephens, Elizabeth Turner, Dianne Haigh, Mary (Molly) Richards Sarvela, Sylvia (Sally) Lazaruk, Gertrude “Billie” Wiltshire, Fran Gaudreau, Frances Jean Cannon, Monica Frith Green, Jane Lambe, Dorothy May Ladner, Andrea Borsch, Nursing Sister Merle A. (Kerr) MacKay, M. Ferne Trout, Joanne M. Foreman, Mary Winn (Gillespie), Faye Meruser, Ellen Claire Schrodt, Lenore Radom, Donna Fay (Barker) Gordon.

Subseries consists of articles, reports, correspondence and lectures on nursing. Many relate to tuberculosis. Most have not been published. Includes articles and reports regarding the affiliation course in tuberculosis nursing developed by Paulson and other members of the Vancouver Unit of the Division of Tuberculosis Control.

Reports mainly concern competency levels of OR nurses, and operating room standards.

Subseries consists of articles, speeches, and other writings and textual records regarding general nursing topics.

Subseries consists of various materials published by UBC. Includes pamphlets, programs, manuals and other related materials.

The Oral History Committee was established in 1981 on the 75th anniversary of the RNABC. Its goal was to capture past and present stories and activities of nurses of the province, and to document the development of nursing. About 1987 the Oral History group was brought under the History group, first as a gesture, then formalized as a full committee of the BCHNG about 1992.

Subseries consists of administrative and operational records of the committee. Includes blank copies of interview forms and consent forms. Various photocopies of published articles written from interviews are included. DVD contains recorded interviews with various individuals in 2010.

This committee discussed the issues surrounding programs and courses offered outside the main UBC campus.

Subseries consists of minutes of the committee, with some memoranda and
reports.

Subsubseries consists of two ledgers relating to the education of nurses. One is identified as belonging to the Kootenay Lake General Hospital Training School. The other is not identified. They were probably kept by supervising nurses.

Sheila Zerr examines past and present experiences and challenges of northern nurses from the 1920s to the 1990s. These articles demonstrate the evolving role of the nurse in northern Canada from the 1920s to the present day.

This committee meets regularly to discuss nursing concerns including issues related to financial planning and the effect of budget constraints on programs and subsequent effects on nursing shortages; the establishment of expected competencies for beginning practitioners; and the need for post basic education.

Subseries consists of agenda and minutes for the meetings of the committee, with related reports and correspondence.

Subseries consists of mostly published material on the contributions of Canadian nurses to the war effort, particularly World Wars I and II.

Subseries consists of newsletters from B.C. and other jurisdictions.

Subseries consists of Community Health Nurses’ Group newsletters, as well as correspondence and other records relating to the production of the newsletters.

Subseries consists of News and Views newsletters.

Subsubseries consists of minutes of MSN team meetings. These deal with
the overall organization and administration of the graduate program. Some other documents relevant to the program are included.

Subseries consists of published and unpublished writings and presentations by Sheila Zerr.

Subseries consists of miscellaneous writings by Blais, including an article “About Retiring”, which appeared in both The Canadian Nurse and History of Nursing News, “Energy Healing in the Operating Room Works!” in Balanced Life, interview notes, “Member Bio”, what appears to be an unpublished book review of Forging the Future by Diana J. Mansell, and a handwritten “10 Minute Shaman Journey”.

Subseries consists of miscellaneous reference materials related to nursing.

The following photographs may be from one or more of the subfonds, but insufficient information exists to definitely assign them.

Several items in subseries are not photographs, items were assigned photograph numbers previously. Arrangement has been retained upon transfer to RBSC for consistency.

Series consists of miscellaneous photographs related to the UBC School of Nursing.

Subseries consists of miscellaneous records, including a report on a diphtheria outbreak at an Indian camp in Peace River in 1950.

Subseries consists of minutes relating to the Pediatric Nurses’ Group. Arranged according to the PNG fiscal year, which began in May and ended the following June.

Photographs are of society members attending various functions and events related to military nursing displays.

The Memorial Nursing Portrait Collection was established in 1990 to raise money for the History of Nursing Scholarship Fund and to provide a visual, lasting portrait to honour a friend, family member, or other subject.

Subseries consists of committee reports and documents, booklets prepared by the committee, and information on nurses selected for this project. Many also have biographical files or fonds.

People included are: Elizabeth (Rankin) Bemrose, Emily Susan Patterson, Sister Frances Redmond, Isabelle Maud Hill, Margaret M. Street, Helen K. Mussallem, James William Rankin, Josephine Dyer Rankin, Katerine Yarko Rumen, Ethel and Archie McKenzie, Thurley Duck, Alice Smith, Odessa (Dolly) P. Shore, Luella Catherine Zilm, Sheila J. Rankin Zerr, Rob Calnan, Lois Black, Ethel MacGregor, Alice Lillian Wright, Lenore Radom, Nina Rumen. Dr. Beverly Du Gas and Margaret Stewart Gilmour Esson.

Subseries consists of material concerning an historical record that honours deceased RNABC members who deserve recognition for their contribution to nursing in British Columbia. Records include criteria for nominations and information on names submitted.

Subseries includes membership lists and reports of the Committee chair. Membership applications are disposed of after seven years.

Subseries consists of lists, informational material, forms, and other records relating to membership in the Community Health Nurses’ Group and the work of its Membership Committee.

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

Subseries consist of manuals for the activities of various representatives associated with the group.

Records of and relating to Madeline Harrower (1867-1891), who served as a nursing sister during the Boer War and World War I, were retrieved by a dumpster diver in Kerrisdale, Vancouver in 2000. Many of these were later sold at auction. Lois Blais subsequently engaged in a research review of this collection. Harrower was born in Australia and moved to Vancouver in the late 1940s.

Subseries consists of material related to Blais’ unfinished research into the historical significance of Madeline Harrower.

Subseries consists of ledgers relating to the financial activities of the group.

Gertrude Richards was a pioneer nurse in Delta in the early 1900s. This book by Sheila Zerr, Glennis Zilm and Valerie Grant is based on a 1998 biography of Ladner by her daughter Edna Ladner, which was based on notes dictated by her mother.

Subseries consists of records related to research and publication on Gertrude Ladner.

Subseries consists of four coil bound notebooks titled “Moving pages” and containing notes for writing. While they are numbered 1 to 4, some of the material in Notebook 4 is dated 1993.

The International History of Nursing Conference was co-sponsored by the Canadian Association for the History of Nursing and the B.C.History of Nursing Group. The conference was held June 12-15, 1997 in Vancouver at St. Paul’s Hospital. Both sponsoring groups aim to discover, disseminate, and preserve nursing history in Canada and British Columbia. The conference was held just prior to the meeting of the International Council of Nurses 21st Quadrennial Congress.

The conference attracted 144 people from 18 countries. Sixty papers were presented on topics including the impact of the World Wars on nursing in Canada, the U.S., Poland, Slovenia, and Germany; religious traditions in nursing; black nurses’ struggles; the impact of traditional Chinese medicine on nursing in China; epidemics; psychiatric nursing development; nursing education; and Florence Nightingale.

Subsubseries consists of delegate packages, schedules, presentations and other related materials. A commemorative scrapbook with 53 photographs is also included, and one wall hanging.

This standing committee reviewed and evaluated instructional materials
co-ordinating their use, and purchasing or renting equipment as required.

Subseries consists of minutes of this committee

Consists of photocopied photographs taken at these conferences. These photographs have been stored separately.

Subseries consists of histories of several BC hospitals and related documents, including an original bill from St. Joseph’s Hospital in Victoria dated January 24, 1925.

The collection consists of a record of B.C. History of Nursing Group displays from 1997 to 2001 in the Woodward Medical Library, the Board Room of the Registered Nurses Association of B.C. building, and the lobby of the RNABC building, with a file of photographs from the Royal Columbia Hospital Nursing Week in May 2006.

The first displays were presented in nine glass cases in the Woodward Biomedical Library at UBC during the spring and summer of 1997 in connection with the International History of Nursing Conference and the Congress of the International Council of Nurses.

In early 1998 the group purchased a display cabinet for the Board Room of RNABC at 2855 Arbutus, Vancouver. At this time the Group also began nursing displays on a bulletin board at the RNABC Library.

In April 2000 the Group purchased a wood and fibre glass dress form to display period nursing uniforms in the lobby of the RNABC building, and further promote interest in the history of nursing.

The majority of the work spent in co-ordinating recent displays, keeping records, and gathering this material, was done by Jill Thompson-Beaudreau, who died in November, 2001. Others involved in the creation of displays include Irene Goldstone, Helen Shore, Janet Gormick, Sheila Zerr, Beth Fitzpatrick, Glennis Zilm, Ethel Warbinek and Nina Rumen.

Most (not all) files contain photographic records of the displays, and most include some description of the exhibit, including the location and the creators of the display.

This committee made recommendations to the faculty regarding the
development and implementation of graduate programs, including evaluation, curriculum, recruitment of students and procedures for student appeals and advocacy.

Subsubseries consists of committee minutes and other records related to
the operation and development of the School of Nursing graduate program at both the Masters and PhD levels. It includes reports and correspondence, including issues related to student academics.

Subseries consists of syllabi and some correspondence related to graduate
courses.