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Jessie Morrison fonds

  • CA AARN aarn-1719
  • Fonds
  • 1941-[196-]

The fonds consists of Miss Morrison's commission into the armed services (1943); her toast to the Canadian Womens' Army Corps on their 45th anniversary, and the program of that occasion; a speech to the University of British Columbia School of Nursing; a speech, "Gertrude Hall - a Tribute to a Friend," and a photograph of the unveiling of a plaque dedicated to Gertrude Hall; "Nursing With the Canadian Army in Normandy - 1944"; a letter and information on Betty Barefoot; references regarding the Geriatric Nursing Institute; and a paper on Ethel Johns by Rae Chittick. The Morrison papers donated by Eleanor M. Hayes consist of the transcript of an oral interview and the text of a speech, in which Jessie Morrison describes her experiences as a Nursing Sister with the Canadian Army, 1941-1943; Miss Morrison's curriculum vitae and 2 photographs.

Morrison, Jessie G.

Nursing Sisters' Association of Canada fonds

  • CA AARN aarn-1742
  • Fonds
  • 1914-1994, predominant 1914-1922

The fonds consists of the Association's constitution and by-laws; National and Edmonton Unit executive minutes; financial reports; correspondence; directories and pamphlets; photographs and slides; tributes and medals; scrapbooks and news clippings; dolls dressed in military uniform (1914-1922); records and memorabilia of the Biennial Conference of the Nursing Sisters Association of Canada held in Edmonton (1994); Commemorative Issue National Directory of members, produced to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II.

Nursing Sisters' Association of Canada

Canadian Nurses of World War I: Oral History Programme fonds

  • CA AARN aarn-2205
  • Fonds
  • 1883-1980

There are 15 interviews on 26 audiotapes, with a transcript for each; and transcripts of 11 interviews for which an audiotape was not provided. Each nurse interviewed was asked to describe her family history, including grandparents, parents and siblings, childhood health, health practices in her family and neighbourhood, education, nursing training, decision to join the Army after 1914 and experiences overseas, demobilization and work or personal experiences after the war, and thoughts on the changes in nursing practice she had observed to the present. The nurses were commissioned officers in the Canadian Army and were stationed first at military hospitals in England before being sent to France or the Mediterranean. The nurses interviewed and their interviewers are:;1 - Elizabeth Ellison (McCurdy) Coughlin / K. Poulton, 1977: Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast; Toronto General Hospital; Taplow and (Le Tréport). 1 audiotape. 2 - Mary Agnes Darling, 1888-[19] / Margaret Allemang, 1978: Toronto Hospital for Sick Children; [University of Toronto Base Hospital] #4 Unit, Étaples, Salonika (Gallipoli front). 2 audiotapes. 3 - Mary Frances (King) Farquharson / Jean M. Ciceri, 1978: Toronto Western Hospital; Taplow. 1 audiotape. 4 - Florence (Bloy) Graham / K. Poulton, 1979: England (hospital not identified); Winnipeg General Hospital; Weyburn, Saskatchewan; Hastings, Le Tréport. 2 audiotapes. 5 - Ethel (Norman) Williams Grainger, 1891-[19] / May McChesney, 1978: ambulance driver with Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps, near Calais. 2 audiotapes. 6 - Laura (Hanham) Harper / Margaret Allemang, 1978: Hamilton General Hospital; Bramshott. 1 audiotape. 7 - Edna Nettie Howey / Sharon Samland, 1978: Toronto General Hospital; Le Tréport; Vimy Ridge casualties. 2 audiotapes. 8 - Edith Rogers, (1893?-[19]) / Margaret Allemang, 1977: Patterson [Hospital], New Jersey; Étaples; DVA after the war. Birth date may be 1889. 1 audiotape. 9 - Mabel (Lucas) Rutherford / Margaret Allemang, 1978: Toronto Western Hospital; #6 General Hospital, Rouen; Salonika (Gallipoli); Malta; Basingstoke. 4 audiotapes. 10 - Annie Victoria (Coghill) Shearer, 1889-[19] / Margaret Allemang, 1978: Royal Infirmary, Newcastle; Edith Cavell's Clinic, Brussels; 14th Stationary Hospital, Rouen; Le Tréport; post-war: Ogeman, Saskatchewan. 2 audiotapes. 11 - Helen Sibbald / May McChesney, 1979; St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, 1914; University [of Toronto] Base Hospital #4, Rouen; Salonika; Malta; Basingstoke. 1 audiotape. 12 - Katherine (Wilson) Simmie / Julia Harvey, 1977: Owen Sound Hospital; #3 Canadian Stationary Hospital Unit, #3 Imperial, #3 British Hospital at Trianon Palace, Versailles; #1 General at Étaples (Col. Sam Hughes); Lemnos (Lester B. Pearson). 1 audiotape. 13 - Marian (Souter) Wilson / Margaret Allemang, 1977: Victoria Hospital, London, Ontario; Imperial Hospital, Orpington; Étaples, Dannes-Camiers; Charmes; Vimy Ridge casualties, #7 Western Universities Battalion (George Drew; University of Alberta contingent). 2 audiotapes. 14 - Katherine (VanBuskirk) Woodbury, 1894-[19] / Jean Murtagh, 1980: Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; 22nd British Expeditionary Force Hospital, Harvard Unit, Dannes-Camiers (near Étaples) (Helen Dore Boylston); Passchendaele casualties (Allan Gregg, Paul Dudley White, Joseph Aub); post-war: American Red Cross in Paris, organizing hospitals in Albania, Salonika, Poland, Egypt, Capetown. 15 - Marion Wylie / Margaret Allemang, 1979: Toronto Western Hospital; #7 Canadian General Hospital; Ramsgate; Le Tréport and Étaples; [Bonn] with the Army of Occupation; post-war: Imperial Oil Hospital in Colombia and Peru; Standard Oil Hospital in Aruba. ; The following interviews have transcripts or summaries but not audiotapes:;16 - Included in one booklet: ; - Mary A. Buchanan, 1888-1982 / Lettie Turner, 1978: Toronto General Hospital; Taplow; #2 Canadian General Hospital, Le Tréport; Doullens (bombings, influenza epidemic in 1918). ; - Lavinia (Kropf) Gerrard, [1890]-1978 / K. Poulton, 1976: Guelph General Hospital; Regina General Hospital; #8 Canadian Stationary Hospital, Shorncliffe, Folkestone; Hastings (Florence Bloy Graham); #7 Canadian Hospital, Étaples; #8 Canadian Stationary Hospital, Dannes-Camiers and Charmes; Canadian Forestry Corps Hospital; post-war: Military Hospital, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. ; -Barbara Argo (Ross) Hanna, 1890-1978 / Lettie Turner, 1978: Orpington; Army [Hospital], Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. ; -Margaret (Foster) Harston, 1894-[19] / [Interviewer not identified], 1979: Belleville General Hospital; #15 General Base Hospital, Taplow (formerly the Duchess of Connaught's Canadian Red Cross Hospital). ; - Helen Hefernan, 1891-1980 / Lettie Turner, 1978: St. Joseph's Hospital, Hamilton; service in England (hospitals not named). ; - Edna Jeffery, 1883-1981 / K. Poulton, 1977: Grace Hospital, Toronto; Army [Hospital], Toronto, Halifax, to nurse victims of the explosion; Orpington, Bramshott, Basingstoke. ; - Lillian Pidgeon, 1888-1978 / Lettie Turner, 1977: Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal; #3 Canadian General Hospital (McGill University Unit); Dannes-Camiers and Boulogne. ; - Marion (Starr) Storey, [18]-1984 / Evelyn Wexler, 1978: #2 Canadian General Hospital, Le Tréport. ; 17 - Lillie Rae (Harris) Cunningham, 1890-[19] / May McChesney, 1979: Toronto Hospital for Sick Children; [London and Étaples] (hospitals not identified). ; 18 - Helen Langman, 1884-[19] / Jean Clipsham, 1977: Ontario Military Hospital; Orpington; transport duty, England to Canada. ; 19 - Maude Wilkinson, 1891?-[19] / May McChesney, 1978: Roosevelt Hospital, New York City; duty overseas at [Étaples?]. ; - There are transcripts for interviews 1-15, with a time/footage summary for each.

University of Toronto, Faculty of Nursing

Jessie G. Morrison fonds

  • CA AARN aarn-2210
  • Fonds
  • 1910-1966; 1992

Miss Morrison was interviewed by Carol Ritch on June 22 and 29, 1993. She describes her early family life in the West and her training as a nurse at the Winnipeg General Hospital, 1923-1926. The major part of the interview covers her experiences as Matron of Government House geriatric care: in staffing, services, nursing care, spiritual care, problem cases, medications, and special supplies and equipment. Team nursing was part of the care developed at the Home. Miss Morrison discussed her admiration for Agnes McLeod's work with the DVA and in public health nursing in southern Alberta. The interview is recorded on two audiotape cassettes and lasts 120 minutes. A photographic portrait of Miss Morrison (4 views) and biographical information on Colonel Mewburn and the Mewburn Pavilion are included in the textual records. Miss Morrison deposited further materials relating to her military career in accessions 87.4, 91l30 and 92.10 at the amiss Morrison deposited further materials relating to her military career in accessions 87.4, 91l30 and 92.10 at the Alberta Association of Registered Nurses Archives and Museum.

Morrison, Jessie Grace

Jacqueline (Jackie) Brewe fonds

  • CA AARN aarn-2211
  • Fonds
  • 1957-1992

Major Jackie Brewe was interviewed by Jocelyne Thibault-Prevost as an assignment for the University of Alberta course Nursing 550, Dr. Shirley Stinson, instructor. The interview took place in Ottawa on November 19, 1992 and comprises 3 audiotapes for a total of 4 hours, 6 minutes. Major Jackie Brewe describes her family and early life and her decision to join the RCAF after nursing school. She discussed the relationships and lines of command with medical staff, nursing staff, aircrew and ground-based officers. She describes the types of aircraft used for medical missions, the improvisations in equipment and facilities that had to be made, because no aircraft are specifically designated for Aeromedical Evacuation. She has been Staff Nurse in the Base Hospital at CFB Greenwood, Senior Flight Nurse with 413 Squadron (setting up the Aeromedevac service, including teaching, supervising and "check-riding" the nurses and medical assistants), and at some bases, School Nurse for the children of Base residents. In 1978 Major Brewe was posted to CFHE Lahr, West Germany, where she was Head Nurse of the Medical/ICU/Psychiatric Ward. A secondary duty was OIC for all Aeromedevac equipment. Her most memorable experiences are described; the most trying for Major Brewe were the emergency or mercy missions involving sick children. A summary of major Brewe's biography is included with the transcript of her interview. The textual materials include AIRMEDEVAC procedure manuals, samples of air logs, 2 photographs of staff and Major Brewe receiving her USAF wing, and copies of published articles and press clippings describing the work of AIRMEDEVAC.

Brewe, Jacqueline (Jackie)

Betty Eggen fonds

  • CA AARN aarn-2221
  • Fonds
  • 1938-1981

Miss Eggen was interviewed by Lynne French on January 20, 1994. She discussed her training as a nurse and her career as an Army nurse, and as a public health nurse for the Victorian Order of Nurses, the Calgary Board of Health and the Federal government's Indian Health Services. She notes advances and changes in training and practice and the development of homecare services. She compares the inter-agency cooperation among charities and agencies she observed in Montreal with the competitive activities of service groups in Calgary.

Eggen, Elizabeth (Betty),1917-

University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Nursing. History of Nursing (N4850): Oral History Project fonds

  • CA AARN aarn-2223
  • Fonds
  • 1930-1995

The fonds consists of 15 files and 14 audiotapes. Each student prepared a brief biography of her subject, a time/footage summary of the audiotaped conversation, permission and authorization sheets, and a descriptive essay. If photographs of the subjects were available copies were made for the file. Each interviewer asked her subject to describe her family history, education background, decision to enter nursing training, hospital training received, further education, work experience, professional and community activities, and thoughts on the changes she had observed in nursing practice since her entry into the profession. The subjects, with highlights of the interviews, are:;1. René (Ducker) Arsene, Lethbridge (Lisa Ober): Misericordia Hospital, Edmonton, 1945; nursing in Montana (AIREVAC) and Texas (polio epidemic). 2. Lois (Osecki) Barlett, Lethbridge (Jayda Zabolotney): Galt Hospital School of Nursing, Lethbridge, 1949; nursing in Alberta -- Grande Prairie, Pincher Creek, Lethbridge. 3. Carolyn (Aldridge) Cahoon, Cardston (Lois Halko): Holy Cross Hospital, Calgary, 1945; Southern Alberta, cross-cultural health care (Blood Indian reserves, Hutterite colonies), 1 col. Photograph. 4. Marjorie (McDonald) McNab Chapman, Lethbridge (Edith McNab): "Old" Galt Hospital, Lethbridge, 1934; Lethbridge Nursing Mission (forerunner of Public Health Nursing); experiences in Great Depression, innovations in equipment and supplies in hospitals; Elizabeth (Patteson) Taylor. 5. Joan (Maynard) Ferguson, Lethbridge (Kristi Rigaux): Toronto General Hospital, 1935; Navy nurse during World War II, serving in Newfoundland and Halifax (3 photographs). 6. Helen A. (Freed) Hope, Lethbridge (Stephanie a. Martian): Galt Hospital School of Nursing, Lethbridge, 1932; nursing training and work during the Depression. 7. Helen (Shimbashi) Ikebuchi, Taber, Alberta (Leanne Kiss): Medicine Hat School of Nursing, 1949; Japanese-Canadian student in the 1940s; operating room practice (2 photographs). 8. Alice A. C. (Pelletier) Jacobson Webster, Lethbridge (Pattie Gantefoer): Galt Hospital School of Nursing, Lethbridge, 1930; Lethbridge Nursing Mission; Student Health Services Department, University of Lethbridge. 9. Inez (McCormick) Kelly, Lethbridge (Sandra Reti): Hôtel Dieu School of Nursing, Chatham, NB; Lethbridge Community College School of Nursing. 10. Lois (Harper) McKillop, Lethbridge (Suzanne Nicol): Calgary General Hospital, 1945; professional associations and unions. 11. Sister Teresina McNeil, Lethbridge (Erin LaPlace): St. Joseph's Hospital School of Nursing, Glace Bay, NS, 1947; hospital administration, nursing education. 12. Lenore (Lancaster) Menard, Lethbridge (Terina Rindal): Vancouver General Hospital Nursing School, 1938; Mine Hospital, Wayne, Alberta; Army nurse in World War II: Ottawa, Kingston, Petawawa; #1 Canadian General Hospital, England; Virginia Hospitals, NATO hospitals. 13. Dr. Margaret (Young) Osborne, Calgary (Brenda Rowley): Holy Cross Hospital, Calgary, 1961; psychiatric and mental health nursing. 14. Helen Willms-Bergen, Coaldale, Alberta (Patricia Siemens): Galt Hospital School of Nursing, Lethbridge, 1952; missionary nurse: Altona, Manitoba; Hualien, Taiwan, 1957-1991. 15. Joan (Linn) Tonkin, Lethbridge (Lisa Knight-Zoeteman): Galt Hospital School of Nursing, Lethbridge, 1941; Kaslo, BC, Japanese internment town during World War II. Biography and authorization sheets, essay; no audiotape or time/footage summary.

University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Nursing

Athabasca and District Civil Defense Unit

  • CA ATH ath-1857
  • Fonds
  • 1957-1973

The fonds consists of materials created by the Athabasca and District Civil Defence Unit between 1957 and 1973. The fonds consists of minutes of meetings of Athabasca and District Civil Defense Unit, financial statements, correspondence, notes, brochures and general information about civil defense programs. The photograph is of a provincial Civil Defence meeting. Athabasca's representatives are Steve Berezan and Harry Bayliss.

Athabasca and District Civil Defense Unit

Ernst Feuereisen fonds

  • CA ATH ath-1858
  • Fonds
  • 1922-[1977]

The fonds consists of materials created or collected by Ernst Feuereisen of Pelican Portage and dating from 1922 to [1977]. The fonds consists of trapping and hunting licenses, part of a 1922 map of Alberta,and photographs of scenes, people and places on the Athabasca River including Upper Wells. Some of the people are: Ernst Feuereisen, Joe Siemoni, Mr.Jones, Frank and George Senz, Gordon and Jim Carruthers, Henry Goegler (1884-1955), Joe Larson, Hans Birkigt, John and George Pederson, Bruno and Elsie Goetsch, Joe Laflamme, Ed Gambler, Rose Gambler, Kurt George (Dick) Naumann (1901-1978) and ? Kosloff. There is a photo of Ernst on the ship Thuringia out of Hamburg.

Feuereisen, Ernst

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