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- Compiled 1974-1978 (originally created 1911-1978) (Creation)
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Extent and medium
67 cm of textual records
27 audio reels
9 audio cassettes
813 photographs
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Name of creator
Biographical history
High River, Alberta writer, Joy Veals Duncan, 1934-, started the Frontier Nursing Project in 1974, with the intention of gathering together material related to nursing in Canada's frontier areas, including the northern parts of Alberta, British Columbia, and Manitoba, and the NWT, and writing a book on the topic. She had practiced as a nurse at a hospital for native peoples in northern Manitoba. During the next four years, she recorded 29 interviews, and collected manuscript and photographic material from a total of 68 former frontier nurses.
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Gifts of Joy Duncan, 1974-1978 and Martha Aldrich, 2015.
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Scope and content
The collection consists of reminiscences, biographical notes, letters, diaries and journals, newspaper clippings, recorded interviews, slides and photographs pertaining to nursing experiences.
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No restrictions on access.
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The material is in English.
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Digital content is available
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Title based on contents and provenance of collection.
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Some material, although collected between 1974 and 1978, was transferred to the Glenbow at a later date. This has not been indicated in the date of acquisition.
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- Abernethy, Chryss Smith (Subject)
- Belsheim, Carol (Subject)
- Bird, Edith Miller (Subject)
- Blais, Anna (Subject)
- Boatness, Geraldine Burke (Subject)
- Bollearts, Simone (Subject)
- Brand, Martha (Subject)
- Brears, Beverly Barr (Subject)
- Cooper, Florence (Subject)
- Copeland, Donalda (Subject)
- Crofford, Kathleen (Subject)
- DeMarsh, Kathleen (Subject)
- Doerksen, Nan Enns (Subject)
- Finlayson, Margery (Subject)
- Flucke, Kathleen Ross (Subject)
- Forsyth, Delores (Subject)
- Foster, Dianne (Subject)
- Frost, Grace (Subject)
- Gallagher, Dorothy Bowden (Subject)
- Halsey, Audrey (Subject)
- Heffel, Ann Morton (Subject)
- Hockin, E. Prudence (Subject)
- Janzen, Margaret (Subject)
- Jowett, Dorothy (Subject)
- Kelso, Jessie (Subject)
- Lemoine, Mary (Subject)
- Lemphers, Christopher (Subject)
- Lemphers, Kelly (Subject)
- Lindquist, Mary Lugtiheld (Subject)
- Lutley, Jo (Subject)
- McCormack, Liz (Subject)
- McDowell, Marjorie (Subject)
- McKenzie, Grace Connor (Subject)
- Mills, Thora McIlroy (Subject)
- McVean, Erna Rosland (Subject)
- Milne, Alice (Subject)
- Mitchell, Alice (Subject)
- Mlazgar, Margaret (Subject)
- Moffat, Flora (Subject)
- Mullen, Kathleen (Subject)
- Murakami, Pauline Phillips (Subject)
- Nagle, Lorraine Bode (Subject)
- Nancekeivill, Frances (Subject)
- Nordtrop, Anne (Subject)
- Normandin, Alberta (Subject)
- Ostrum, Myrtle Rogers (Subject)
- Pardy, Margaret Darby (Subject)
- Pask, Anne (Subject)
- Penner, Leona (Subject)
- Platt, Muriel (Subject)
- Renwick, Nina (Subject)
- Rosolowich, Vera Blacker (Subject)
- Ross, Gwen (Subject)
- Scarlett, Helen B. (Subject)
- Sheppard, Isobel (Subject)
- Steerritt, Mary Ellis Conlin (Subject)
- Stirling, Agnes (Subject)
- Sweet, Dorothy Tansley (Subject)
- Taylor, Mary Willis (Subject)
- Tidmarsh, Nancy (Subject)
- Timberg, Doris (Subject)
- Van Vliet, Anthonia (Subject)
- Wallace, Helen Jeanette Simpson (Subject)
- Watherston, Olive F. (Subject)
- Watkinson, Janet (Subject)
- Weller, Margaret McKay (Subject)
- Wilson, Amy (Subject)
- Worsely, Phyllis (Subject)
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Thursday, November 08, 2018