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    • Black History Month 2023: Access Recording Here!
    • Fall 2023: DS 690: History of Nursing Labour & Activism
    • Fall 2023: DS 590: History of Nursing & Health Care
    • Upcoming Round Table: May 2023
    • Spend a Day as a Historian: Visiting the Archive in Philadelphia!
    • Helen Shore Nursing History Endowment
  • Awards & Publications
    • New Award (2023): Lydia Wytenbroek awarded APSC SSHRC SIG Grant
    • New Award (2023): Lieza Phan wins MSN SPAR Award of Excellence
    • New Award (2023): MSN Student Alistair White awarded Vera Roberts Award
    • New Award (2023): MSN Student Charlsie Steele awarded Margaret Allemang Award
    • New Award (2023): MSN student Alistair White awarded BCHNS Bursary
    • New Pub (2023): Nursing History Chapter in Perry & Potter Canadian Fundamentals of Nursing
    • New Pub (2023): Exploring the Contributions of Black Nurses to BC,1845-1910
    • New Award (2022): AAHN Mary Adelaide Nutting Award
    • New Pub (2022): Nursing (inter)nationalism in Iran
    • New Award (2022/2023): MSN Student Kyra Philbert wins CAHN Scholarship & Public Humanities Seed Grant
  • Upcoming Events
    • Nursing History Symposia 2025
    • November 21, 2023 – NURSING HISTORY WEBINAR
    • Hannah Lecture: What Got Us Here Won’t Get Us There: Reckoning & Re-Imagining Black Canadian Nursing Histories
    • History Drop In: Come Pitch an Idea!
  • Black History Month Projects
    • Black History Month 2023: Access Recording Here!
    • Black History Month 2023: Historical Considerations on Nursing Education Across Canada
    • Black History Month 2022: Celebrating the Contributions of Black Nurses to Health Care (recording)
    • Black History Month 2022 Flipbook
    • Black History Month 2021: Black (in)Visibility: Black Nurses in Canada who Paved the Way (recording)
  • Critical Reflections on Nursing & Health History
    • The Ongoing Impact of Colonialism & Racism on Canada’s Health Care System
    • Challenging Whiteness as the Norm in Nursing Education Imagery
  • Indigenous Nurses Day 2023: Health, Healing & History
  • Indigenous Nurses Day 2025 (April 10): Indigenous Nursing Leadership: History and Ongoing Reconciliation
  • Nursing History Symposia
    • Nursing History Symposium 2022
    • Nursing History Symposium 2021
    • Nursing History Symposium 2019 Webcast
    • Nursing History Symposium 2018 Review
    • Nursing History Symposium 2015
    • Nursing History Symposium 2014
    • Nursing History Symposium 2013
    • Nursing History Symposium 2012
  • History of Health Lectures
    • Lesley McBain: Place and Nursing in Remote Northern Communities: A Historical Perspective
    • Sally Mennill: Reducing Risk: Cesarean Section at St. Paul’s Hospital, 1950-1970
    • Ranjit Dhari: Capturing the History of Public Health Nursing and its Transformation from Nurses’ Work Experiences
    • Kate Prebble: “We Can Do This But We Need To Do It Our Own Way”
    • Margaret Scaia: Working Professionalism, Nursing in Calgary and Vancouver 1958-1977
    • Patricia Vertinsky: Reconsidering The Demise of the Female Tradition in Physical Education
    • Megan Davies: New Educational Health History Resources
    • Geertje Boschma: Beyond the Cuckoo’s Nest: Nurses and ECT in Dutch Psychiatry, 1940-2010
    • Tommy Dickinson: “Curing Queers”: Mental Nurses and Their Patients, 1935-1974
    • Anna Tremere: Mental Health Legacies: The Riverview Hospital Suitcase Project
  • Digital Collections
    • History of Nursing in Pacific Canada
    • Lyle Creelman DVD Now Available
  • Consortium Projects
    • History of Public Health Book Project (2023)
    • South Asian Nurses Oral History Project (2023)
    • Teaching Nursing History with Photographs
  • Untelling Nursing History: Centering the Voices of IBPOC Nurses
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Archive Links and Finding Aids

Canada:

  • Library and Archives Canada
  • Archives Canada
  • Early Canadiana Online
  • Guide to Canadian Nursing Archival Resources (CAHN funded project)
  • Canadian Nursing History Collection Online
  • Nursing History Digitization Project – Nursing Education in Nova Scotia
  • Histories of Canadian Hospitals and Schools of Nursing

British Columbia:

  • Memory BC
  • BC History of Nursing Archives
  • The Alumnae Association of the Royal Jubilee Hospital School of Nursing
  • Vancouver General Hospital School of Nursing Alumnae Association
  • TB Nurses in B.C. 1895-1960 : A Biographical Dictionary

World:

  • Internet Archive (archive.org)
  • Hathi Trust Digital Library

Digitized Historic Journals:

  • Public Health Nurses’ Bulletin (British Columbia) 1924-1939
  • The British Journal of Nursing
  • The Canadian Nurse
  • The American Journal of Nursing

Historical Theses and Dissertations at UBC

  • The historical development of intensive care nursing at Vancouver General Hospital, 1960-1985
  • Developing gerontological nursing in British Columbia : an oral history study
  • Immigrant Filipino nurses in Western Canada : an exploration of motivations and migration experiences through oral history
  • Evolution of family visitation in the post-anesthetic recovery room
  • Nursing identity and abortion work: Interrupting 50 years of professional discourse 

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