143 cm of textual records (14 boxes) and 74 photographs (23 med. sepia prints; 15 small sepia prints; 6 small b&w prints; 7 med b&w print; 21 med. col. prints).
Scope and Content
Records consist of newspaper clippings, photographs, reports, minute books, correspondence, financial records, newsletters, promotional materials, membership lists, bylaws and scrapbooks related to the history and work of the VON (Victorian Order of Nurses) in Burnaby.
143 cm of textual records (14 boxes) and 74 photographs (23 med. sepia prints; 15 small sepia prints; 6 small b&w prints; 7 med b&w print; 21 med. col. prints).
Description Level
Fonds
Accession Number
2010-09
Scope and Content
Records consist of newspaper clippings, photographs, reports, minute books, correspondence, financial records, newsletters, promotional materials, membership lists, bylaws and scrapbooks related to the history and work of the VON (Victorian Order of Nurses) in Burnaby.
History
The Victorian Order of Nurses (VON) for Canada is a non-profit charitable organization created for the purposes of home care and social services established in 1898 to perpetuate the memory of Victoria the Good. Lady Aberdeen, founding president of the National Council of Women (and wife of Canadian Governor General Lord Aberdeen) was a great believer in the need for a nursing service in Canada, particularly for the less fortunate and recommended the organization be established. The Burnaby Branch of the Victorian Order of Nurses was established in 1912 with Miss Colhoun as its first nurse.
Item is a scrapbook "... depicting the History, growth and work of the Victorian Order of Nurses in Burnaby, British Columbia." Complied by the South Burnaby Auxiliary, this scrapbook includes newspaper clippings, 43 photographs and text. Also included are fiftieth anniversary napkins and loose pap…
Item is a scrapbook "... depicting the History, growth and work of the Victorian Order of Nurses in Burnaby, British Columbia." Complied by the South Burnaby Auxiliary, this scrapbook includes newspaper clippings, 43 photographs and text. Also included are fiftieth anniversary napkins and loose papers containing personnel polices.
Item is a Victorian Order of Nurses (VON) Capitol Hill Auxiliary minute book. Included in the minute book are adhered newspaper clippings as well as a number of loose pages of notes.
Item is a Victorian Order of Nurses (VON) Capitol Hill Auxiliary minute book. Included in the minute book are adhered newspaper clippings as well as a number of loose pages of notes.
Item is a Victorian Order of Nurses (VON) Capitol Hill Auxiliary minute book. Included in the minute book are adhered newspaper clippings as well as a number of loose pages of notes.
Item is a Victorian Order of Nurses (VON) Capitol Hill Auxiliary minute book. Included in the minute book are adhered newspaper clippings as well as a number of loose pages of notes.
Item is a Victorian Order of Nurses (VON) Capitol Hill Auxiliary minute book. Included in the minute book are adhered newspaper clippings as well as loose pages of correspondence.
Item is a Victorian Order of Nurses (VON) Capitol Hill Auxiliary minute book. Included in the minute book are adhered newspaper clippings as well as loose pages of correspondence.
Item is a Victorian Order of Nurses (VON) Capitol Hill Auxiliary minute book. Included in the minute book are adhered newspaper clippings as well as loose pages of correspondence.
Item is a Victorian Order of Nurses (VON) Capitol Hill Auxiliary minute book. Included in the minute book are adhered newspaper clippings as well as loose pages of correspondence.
Item is a Victorian Order of Nurses (VON) Capitol Hill Auxiliary minute book. Included in the minute book are adhered newspaper clippings as well as loose pages of correspondence.
Item is a Victorian Order of Nurses (VON) Capitol Hill Auxiliary minute book. Included in the minute book are adhered newspaper clippings as well as loose pages of correspondence.
Item is a Victorian Order of Nurses (VON) Edmonds and East Burnaby Auxiliary receipt book. Included in the receipt book is one piece of correspondence.
Item is a Victorian Order of Nurses (VON) Edmonds and East Burnaby Auxiliary receipt book. Included in the receipt book is one piece of correspondence.
File consists of three brochures on the subject of health. One is entitled "Pioneers of Nursing in Canada" issued by the History of Nursing Society of the McGill University School for Graduate Nurses for the International Congress of Nurses. The other two were produced by the Department of Pensions…
File consists of three brochures on the subject of health. One is entitled "Pioneers of Nursing in Canada" issued by the History of Nursing Society of the McGill University School for Graduate Nurses for the International Congress of Nurses. The other two were produced by the Department of Pensions and National Health in Ottawa; one of which is entitled "Wells", the other is entitled "The Rat Menace."
Item is a Victorian Order of Nurses (VON) minute book for the South Burnaby, West Burnaby and South-West Burnaby Auxiliaries. Included in the minute book are loose report pages as well as a VON Quarterly magazine; Vol. 2, No. 4 dated December 1949.
Item is a Victorian Order of Nurses (VON) minute book for the South Burnaby, West Burnaby and South-West Burnaby Auxiliaries. Included in the minute book are loose report pages as well as a VON Quarterly magazine; Vol. 2, No. 4 dated December 1949.
File consists of various research records compiled by Mary Forsyth and includes; records from a Burnaby Historical Society photo presentation and contest held at Irving House; a letter to the directors of the B.C. Historical Society from Don N. Brown re: Accomodation for the Burnaby Historical Soci…
File consists of various research records compiled by Mary Forsyth and includes; records from a Burnaby Historical Society photo presentation and contest held at Irving House; a letter to the directors of the B.C. Historical Society from Don N. Brown re: Accomodation for the Burnaby Historical Society; a Corporation of the District of Burnaby Re: "Suggestions submitted to the Post War Rehabilitation Council" dated August 4, 1942; notes and information re: a natural resources map; genealogical notes for the Hern family; a copy of the 2003 Greater Vancouver Regional District Board of Directors for 2003; a Simon Fraser Week publication dated June 27, 1985 about the history of Simon Fraser University; Corporation of the District of Burnaby "A Sound Investment...Burnaby British Columbia Reverted Lands" with map 1926; a copy of a Deed of Gift letter from the Burnaby Historical Society for items donated to the archives dated January 5, 1989; pamphlets about B.C. Hydro rail and Burnaby's Central Park Tramline; National Housing Adminstration Sketch Designs for houses 1946; an invitation for Glenwood Elementary School 100th birthday; a family memoir from the Rorisons; a Victorian Order of Nurses home visit document in March 1923; Corporation of the District of Burnaby By Law No. 1354; 1991 Community Services Directory for New Westminster and Burnaby; Hudson's Bay Company Annual General Report 1947; typewritten history of the Gulf Islands and various Burnaby Now papers for 1990, 2001, 2004 and 2006. Biographical and historical information was compiled by Mary Forysth with the intention of publishing a book.