Place: Christie Gardens, 602 Melita Crescent, Toronto in the auditorium (lower level)

Time: 2 pm

As part of the event, there will be a short presentation, in pictures, on the history of the Toronto General Hospital and Sick Kids Nursing Schools, the first two nursing schools in Toronto.

Invitations will be mailed to members in April, guests are welcome.

This first and only in-depth analysis of the attire worn by the largest workforce in the health care system explores the role of the nurse’s uniform in creating nursing identity for over a hundred years.

A Cultural History of the Nurse’s Uniform (pdf)

This year we received two such excellent papers that we have, for the first time, awarded two prizes. 

The winners are Catherine Haney RN MScN for her paper “Professional Abortion Discourse and American Nursing Practice 1962-1972″ and Laura Jablonski BN for her essay “Saskatchewan Air Ambulance Flight Nurses, 1940s-50s: An Historical Enquiry.”   

Catherine is at the University of British Columbia and Laura at Trinity Western University.  Winners each receive $250 and a year’s membership in the Society. We wish them all success in future endeavours.

Allemang Spring Meeting/Book Launch

 In honor of Carol Helmstadter’s new co-authored book with Dr. Judith Godden, Nursing before Nightingale,1815-1899, please join us for tea at the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto on,

 Friday May 4^rd, 2012

from 2:00-3:30 p.m.

Issues in PDF format:

Winter 2012 |PDF|

Fall 2011 |PDF|

Spring 2011 |PDF|

Winter 2011 |PDF|

Fall 2010 |PDF|

Summer 2010 |PDF|

Spring 2010  |PDF|

Winter 2010 |PDF|

Fall 2009 |PDF|

is pleased to announce an illustrated talk

by

Jaime Lapeyre

Setting the Stage: the Formation of an Influential Network of Nurse Leaders

Date: Saturday November 19, 2011

Time: 3 pm following AGM at 2 pm

Place; 205 Frederick Street, Toronto, 2nd floor Party Room

Directions: The closest subway station is King Street. 205 Frederick Street is opposite the St. James Campus of George Brown College (Adelaide Street).  Visitor parking is available.

Jaime Lapeyre RN, PhD candidate teaches at the Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto.  As background to her talk she notes that the immediate post World War 1 period witnessed one of the greatest public health crises of the 20th century – the influenza pandemic of 1918 – an event that highlighted the lack of well-trained health workers capable of providing public health relief. The need for public health nurses would set off an international debate among nurse leaders regarding the proper training of such nurses. Jaime’s talk explores the influence of the formation of a network of American nurse leaders on this debate.  She will illustrate her talk with photographs.

Non-members welcome

Refreshments will be served

Association Canadienne pour l’histoire du Nursing

15-17 June 2012, Medicine Hat, Alberta

The 2012 Annual CAHN/ACHN Conference, to be held in Medicine Hat, Alberta on June 15-17, marks the 25th anniversary of our association.  Founded in 1987, CAHN/ACHN has an ongoing commitment to stimulate and promote historical scholarship of nursing and health.  We are pleased to invite you to this conference.

The conference theme is:  Places and People’s Health: Exploring Nursing in Diverse Contexts.  We welcome papers that explore diversity and contingency of nursing knowledge and practice. Aiming at a critical understanding of connections between place and practice, the conference seeks to examine the history of nursing and health care in diverse geographic, social, and political contexts, including rural and remote locations, specialty areas, and various communities.  How did communities engage with health politics or respond to professional claims? What tensions arose as health services had to be domains? How did local, regional, and global contexts of health care shape nursing? Abstracts addressing other questions are also welcome.  The conference will bring together scholars, professionals, and students from different fields and various areas of nursing and health care history. Longstanding members are especially invited to attend.

The Hannah Lecturer at the conference will be Carol Helmstadter, Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto.  She is an award winning nurse historian and expert on the history of 19th century nursing.  She has published widely on Florence Nightingale and nursing in Victorian Britain, including a recent chapter in Notes on Nightingale (2010). Her new book, Nursing before Nightingale, co-authored with Judith Godden, will be released in November 2011 by Ashgate.

Please summit your one page abstract (350 words max.) and one page CV for consideration by Dec. 1. 2011 to geertje.boschma@nursing.ubc.ca.  Submissions by email are strongly encouraged.  If submitting by mail. please send one original and 3 blind copies to Geertje Boschma, UBC School of Nursing, T201, 2211 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver V6T 2B5, Canada. Abstracts will be peer-reviewed. Notification of acceptance will be sent out in Feb. 2012. All presenters must be members of CAHN/ACHN.

For information on local arrangements you may contact Florence Melchior florence@mhc.ab.ca or visit our website at http://cahn-achn.ca/

in celebration of Nurses’ Week will host an

AFTERNOON TEA, DISPLAYS, FILM

Date: Saturday May 14, 2011 at 2 pm

Place: Christie Gardens 602 Melita Crescent, Toronto

Directions:

Christie Street entrance – just north of Dupont, go down ramp to enter.

Melita Crescent entrance – one block north of Dupont to Lambert Lodge Avenue, turn left (west) to Melita Crescent. Take another left into front entrance.

By Subway/Bus

Take Bloor subway to St. George Station, transfer to Dupont bus. Get off at Christie Street, cross to west side and walk north.

R.S.V.P to Dorothy Wylie by May 8th. 416 367 5427 or wyliedm@aol.ca

Members and guests welcome

is pleased to announce the following illustrated talk

Polio and Religion in 1950s Canada

by Ginny Bodsworth

Date: Saturday October 16, 2010

Time: 3 pm (following the AGM at 2 pm)

Place: University Women’s Club, 162 St. George St. Toronto (corner of St. George and Huron close to the St. George subway.  Limited parking rear of building)

Ginny Bodsworth is a historian, teacher, and artist.  She recently obtained her Master’s degree in History from York University (working with Kathryn McPherson). The focus of her Master’s degree was the affect of religion on people’s attitudes and responses to polio in 1950s Canada.

All are welcome to this free lecture.     Refreshments provided.

Speaker: Joyce MacQueen

Title: Nursing in a Northern Ontario one-industry town 1933-1974: Forty-two nurses tell their story

Place: to be announced

Nurse historian Joyce MacQueen, chair of the Sudbury Nursing History Group, will base her discussion on interviews with Sudbury nurses.  As lead researcher, she  spearheaded this five year oral history project now successfully concluded.  The project was supported by the Allemang Society and local Sudbury benefactors.

Admission is free. Non-members are welcome.