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Miss Canada and her suite

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Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Date
2 Jul 1927
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 14 x 24 cm (sight) in matt 32 x 41.5 cm in frame 41 x 50 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of Miss Canada and her suite for the Diamond Jubilee of Confederaton in Burnaby. Ten young women are dressed in white dresses and holding provincial shields and the young women in the centre holds a staff.
Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 14 x 24 cm (sight) in matt 32 x 41.5 cm in frame 41 x 50 cm
Material Details
Black and white photograph in oak frame; gold border; upper mat is greyish brown, lower is darker grey
two small eyehole loops and wire for hanging; faded Stride Studios stamp on back
Scope and Content
Photograph of Miss Canada and her suite for the Diamond Jubilee of Confederaton in Burnaby. Ten young women are dressed in white dresses and holding provincial shields and the young women in the centre holds a staff.
Subjects
Events - May Day
Accession Code
BV985.5407.1
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Date
2 Jul 1927
Media Type
Photograph
Photographer
Lloyd, Frank Ernest
Notes
Title based on contents of photograph
Handwritten annotations on lower mat in white ink reads: "Miss Canada & Suite / Diamond Jubilee of Confederation. Burnaby, July 2nd 1927 / Lloyd Studio McKay, B.C."
Framed by Stride Studios
Images
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Nurse Elizabeth Smellie

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Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
December 1940
Collection/Fonds
Victorian Order of Nurses fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 23.5 x 19 cm, matted in frame 35 x 28 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of VON nurse Elizabeth Smellie in uniform. She was Chief Superintendent of the Victorian Order of Nurses from 1924 to May 1947, except during World War II, when she was called back into the Canadian army as Colonel and Matron-in-chief of the Canadian Women's Army Medical Corps from 1940 …
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
December 1940
Collection/Fonds
Victorian Order of Nurses fonds
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 23.5 x 19 cm, matted in frame 35 x 28 cm
Description Level
Item
Record No.
153-074
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Accession Number
2010-09
Scope and Content
Photograph of VON nurse Elizabeth Smellie in uniform. She was Chief Superintendent of the Victorian Order of Nurses from 1924 to May 1947, except during World War II, when she was called back into the Canadian army as Colonel and Matron-in-chief of the Canadian Women's Army Medical Corps from 1940 until 1944. She was the first woman to achieve the rank of colonel in the Canadian army.
Subjects
Occupations - Nurses
Documentary Artifacts - Portraits
Names
Victorian Order of Nurses
Smellie, Elizabeth
Media Type
Photograph
Photographer
Karsh, Yousuf
Notes
Title based on contents of photograph
Photographer’s name "Karsh" signed on recto of card mount at bottom left, “Elizabeth Smellie” signed on card mount at bottom right.
Sticker on verso of frame reads: “Framed by The Stride Studios / Chas. E. Stride / 657 Columbia St. New Westminster B.C. / We carry an exclusive line of framed pictures”
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