VGH Diet Kitchen, 1914

Diet kitchen at VGH. Food for patients was prepared by students and nurses, conforming to then-modern ideas about what foods were appropriate for patients suffering different ailments.

Patient, Doctor, and Nurse at Basal Metabolic Measure

Doctor and nurse conduct a Basal Metabolic Measure on a patient.

O.R. Setup, 1914

Nurses and doctor conducting an operation in the O.R.

Unknown Bathing Treatment, 1914

Preparation by nurses ahead of an unidentified “bathing treatment”.

Night Scene in the O.R., 1941

File contains nitrate negative (HP.80d). Three nurses preparing materials in the O.R.

Night Scene in the O.R., 1941

File contains nitrate negative (HP.80c). Three nurses preparing materials in the O.R.

Nurse “Doll” Sharp Holding Baby

Nurse “Doll” Sharp holds an infant on a patio of the Heather Pavilion.

Miss Grace Fairley, Doctor of Nursing (1929-1943)

Read more about Grace Fairley at the B.C. History of Nursing website: https://bcnursinghistory.ca/dvteam/grace-fairley/

Miss Maude MacLeod, Doctor of Nursing (1917-19)

Julia Wilson (cl. 1916) Album: Manitoba (pg. 1)

Julia Wilson (aka Julia Miller Wilson or Judy Miller Wilson), of the 1916 graduating class of nurses, was born in the Winnipeg area. In 1916 she joined the...