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Bain, Mary M

  • 2857
  • Person

Mary Bain travelled from Vancouver to Europe from 1910 to 1912.

Baird (family)

  • 432
  • Family

The Baird family lived in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Baker, Edgar Crow, 1845-1920

  • 434
  • Person

Edgar Crow Baker was a Royal Navy Officer and an entrepreneur/businessman in Victoria, B.C.

Baldonnel Women's Institute

  • 435
  • Corporate body

The Baldonnel Women's Institute was established in the Peace District in 1935.

Baldwin, Nora

  • 38268
  • Person
  • 1920-2009

Nora Baldwin, (née Gladstone) was born on August 6, 1920 on the Blood Reserve in Southern Alberta near the settlement of Standoff. She entered St. Paul’s Anglican Indian Residential School in September 1925 at the age of five. She remained at the school with the exception of special events until 1938. She left the Residential School at the age of 18. In 1937 Ms. Baldwin was selected one of four Canadian aboriginal students chosen to represent First Nations peoples at the Coronation of King George VI in London, England. Her selection was based on scholastic achievement and appropriateness as a First Nations ambassador. On her return from England she was feted on the Blood Reserve before more than 2,000 local indigenous residents. At the ceremony she received the name “Ninaki” (“Princess”).

Ms. Baldwin continued her education beyond her graduation from Residential School. Since Cardston refused to accept Indian students, in 1938 Ms. Baldwin enrolled in Bedford Road Collegiate High School in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Following graduation from Bedford Road Collegiate High School Ms. Baldwin went to Toronto to train at the Canadian Mothercraft Well Baby Hospital where she received training for two years. She then went on to train as a registered nurse. Unable to gain entrance to Lethbridge and Calgary hospitals due to her indigenous heritage, she was accepted by the Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria, B.C. She graduated as a registered nurse from the Royal Jubilee Hospital as a Registered Nurse in 1945. Following training Ms. Baldwin worked as a registered nurse at Royal Jubilee obstetrics, and hospitals in Comox and Kitimat, B.C. She became Night Supervisor at the hospital in Kitimat, B.C. In this period she married Edwin Baldwin and had one son, Neal James Baldwin. In 1961 Ms. Baldwin was appointed to the Obstetrics/Premature Baby Department at the Vancouver General Hospital. She was Assistant Head Nurse from 1979 to 1982 when the department was closed and re-opened at the Grace Hospital Special Care for Babies unit called “Transitional Nursing from Intensive Care.” She remained at Grace Hospital until she retired in 1985.

In 1996 Ms. Baldwin was recommended for a National Aboriginal Achievement Award and in 2006 she was honoured by Blood Health Centre and the University of Lethbridge as an aboriginal nursing pioneer.
Nora Baldwin passed away on March 17, 2009 in Surrey, B.C. On April 11, 2009, the Blood Reserve held a memorial service in Ms. Baldwin’s honour at St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Moses Lake.

Ball (family)

  • 436
  • Family

The Ball family ran the Diamond B Guest Ranch at Telegraph Creek, B.C. George and his daughter Georgiana were also involved in mining and business activities.

Ball, George

  • 437
  • Person
  • [1886]-1955

George Ball was born in Woodstock, New Brunswick in 1896, and moved to the Cassiar district in 1912. For a number of years he was engaged in a variety of activities, including mining, trapping, carrying the mail between Telegraph Creek and Atlin, and guiding. In approximately 1930, he bought the pack train of guide outfitter J. Frank Callbreath, and in 1931 or 1932, Callbreath's ranch at Glenora and his warehouse at Telegraph Creek. Ball organized and guided hunts, and with his family ran the Diamond B guest ranch until his death in 1955.

Ballarat Company

  • 440
  • Corporate body

The Ballarat Company had mining interests in B.C.

Bamber, H.K.G. (Henry Kelway Gwyer)

  • 38230
  • Person
  • 1864-1924

Born in Pinner, England, February 5, 1864, Bamber was educated at University College, Gower Street, and at the College of Mines, Kensington. He was trained in the chemistry of cement manufacture, and became a managing director of the British company, Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers (London) formed in 1900. When that company formed the British Portland Cement Manufacturers, Ltd. Bamber became a managing director of that company also. Bamber later became Vice-President of the Institution of Structural Engineers.

In 1911, Bamber travelled to Canada to investigate the possibility of manufacturing cement on the B.C. coast. He was responsible for the choice of site and early development of a cement works on Saanich Inlet at the site subsequently named “Bamberton” for him. Bamber died in an auto accident near Gravesend, England, September 20, 1924.

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