Collection search - Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada fonds [multiple media]

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Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada fonds [multiple media]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1877-1979.

Reference:

R2915-0-7-E, MG28-I171

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs, Moving images, Objects (including medals and pins)

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

99815

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Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada fonds
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Fonds includes:

32 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1877-1979.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

4.92 m of textual records.
33 photographs : 32 b&w and 1 col.
3 films : cellulose nitrate ; 35mm.
2 safety pins.
1 binder
1 binding cord with 2 plastic hardware pieces
1 mailing tube.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of constitution and by-law files, minutes, hospital files, correspondence, reports, history and archive files, briefs and submissions, publications and subject files, 1873-1972. The collection also contains b&w prints and negatives of nurses, mostly unidentified, from the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada, [1920-1955]; and a copy of a 1898 group photo of members of the Victorian Order of Nurses who accompanied the Yukon Field Force to the Yukon.

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Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada

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Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada : Organized by Lady Aberdeen in 1897 in commemoration of Queen Victoria's Jubilee, the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada serves as a branch nursing service to supply well qualified nurses for the sick who are otherwise unable to obtain them. The first branches were organized in Ottawa, Montreal, Kingston and Vancouver. To serve communities in sparsely populated areas of western and northern Canada, Cottage Hospitals were organized by the Order, some 44 such hospitals being established between 1898 and 1924, when the last of these hospitals was taken over by local authorities. The Order had by then increasingly turned to providing visiting nurses for farming districts, with nurses frequently covering great distances on horseback and sled to make house calls.

With the coming of the official public health nursing organizations and municipal hospitals, especially after World War II, the Victoria Order increasingly withdrew from country areas to the more densely populated centres, where they endeavour to meet the special requirements of patients who do not need, or cannot afford, the full-time services of a nurse, or who for various reasons cannot, or need not, go into hospital. The Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada has also been active during times of emergencies, serving the sick during the Typhoid epidemic in the Klondike, 1898, and nursing the wounded following the Halifax Explosion, 1917. The Victorian Order of Nurses also served the Canadian Armed Forces during both World Wars.

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Textual record (Electronic) The finding aid is a descriptive file list of volumes 1 to 32. MSS1025 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000158.pdf

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General note:

The records were received in 1973 from the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada, Ottawa.

Arrangement note:

Textual records were re-organized into fewer volumes.

Location of originals note:

Copied photograph: Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada, Ottawa, Ont.
Subject heading:

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Nurses, Canadian, 1897-1972 Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair, Ishbel Gordon, 1897, 1898, 1923, 1931, 1935, 1936, 1926-1972

Nurses - Attitudes, 1897-1972 Florence Nightingale, 1873, 1898

Visiting nurses - Canada, 1897-1972 Canada. Royal Commission on Dominion Provincial Relations, 1938

Hospitals - Canada, 1900-1953 Canada. Special Committee on Social Security, House of Commons, 1943

Learned institutions and societies, 1897-1972 Forum, 1938-1960

Learned institutions and societies - Records and correspondence, 1897-1972 Hour by Hour, 1938

Learned institutions and societies - History, 1897-1972

World War, 1914-1918 - Canada - Nurses, [ca.1914-ca.1918]

World War II - Canada - Nurses, [ca.1939-ca.1945]
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1973-054 NPC
1977-098 NPC
2010-00239-3

Former archival reference no.:

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MG28-I171

Other accession no.:

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2010-0055 (VSA)
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 1025] 93

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation18 Restricted]
Only one photograph is closed. The other 26 are open.

Box [VICTORIAN ORDER OF NURSES FOR CANADA 1973-054] 1662

[Consultation 18 Restricted]

Box [VICTORIAN ORDER OF NURSES FOR CANADA 1977-098] RV4 160

[Consultation 90 Open]

Moving images (film)

[Consultation90 Open]

Audio-visual item no. assigned by LAC [R2915] 4790AV--4793AV

[Consultation 90 Open]

Object

[Consultation90 Open]

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Original photographs: No restrictions. Various copyright on items less than 50 years old. Copyright expired on items more than 50 years old. Credit: Name of photographer / National Archives of Canada / Copy negative no.
Copied photograph: National Archives of Canada does not provide copies; they must be obtained from lender. For items still in copyright; copyright must be established by the holder of the original.

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