Allocations of Profits from the Sale of Liquor to:
Tranquille Sanitorium, Victorian Order of Nurses, St. Mary's Hospital, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver General Hospital and Royal Columbian Hospital
The book of household management : comprising information for the mistress, housekeeper, cook, kitchen-maid, butler, footman, coachman, valet, upper and under house-maids, lady's-maid, maid-of-all-work, laundry-maid, nurse and nurse-maid, monthly, wet, and sick nurses, etc. etc. : also, sanitary, medical, & legal memoranda ; with a history of the origin, properties, and uses of all things connected with home life and comfort
Photograph of the women of the Capitol Hill auxiliary of the Victorian Order of Nurses (VON). Identified are: (front row, 3rd from left) Annie Eshelby and (front) Grace Eshelby. The Auxiliary raised money through teas, concerts and canvassing to help fund VON work. Annie Eshelby served as vice-p…
Photograph of the women of the Capitol Hill auxiliary of the Victorian Order of Nurses (VON). Identified are: (front row, 3rd from left) Annie Eshelby and (front) Grace Eshelby. The Auxiliary raised money through teas, concerts and canvassing to help fund VON work. Annie Eshelby served as vice-president and secretary-treasurer over the years.
"Gibson" -handwritten in ink on cover page
"C.L. Gibson / 2 Queen's Park / March 1927" -handwritten in penil on cover page
Training School for Nurses / Toronto General Hospital" -stamped on cover page
"C.L. Gibson / March Class 1927." -handwritten in ink on cover page
"Training School for Nurses / Toronto General Hospital" -stamped on cover page.
"C.L. Gibson / 2 Queen's Park / March 1927." -handwritten in pencil on cover page.
"Catherine L Gibson" -handwritten in pencil on first page.
"Gibson" -handwritten in ink on first page.
"Training School for Nurses / Toronto General Hospital" -stamped on first page.
Features advertisements on inside front cover previous to the main text and 32 pages (including the inside back cover page) following the index. Many of these have black and white illustrations.
"Eleventh edition, 60th Thousand."
Author writing under her husband's name, full name: Hewer, Annie M. (Annie Martha).
The practical guide to health : a populare treatise on anatomy, physiology, and hygiene, with a scientific description of diseases, their causes and treatment : designed for nurses and for home use
Practical points in nursing for nurses in private practice, with an appendix containing rules for feeding the sick; recipes for invalid foods and beverages; weights and measures; dose list; and a full glossary of medical terms and nursing treatment
"Let all thy converse be sincere / Thy conscious as the noon day clear. / He that helpeth himself is greater than / he that taketh a city" -handwritten in ink inside back cover
"I cut [&] probe where a 8 go / enjoying every quiver / gold can come, loves can go / but still cut on for ever" -handwritten in pencil inside back cover.
True Loves a gift which God has given / To man alone beneath the heaven / It is the secret sympathy / The silver link, the silken tie / Which heart to heart [&] mind to mind / in body [&] in soul can bind" -handwritten in pencil inside back cover.
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.