Hospitals--British Columbia--Lower Mainland

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Reba Willets interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): General Medicine and Public Health PERIOD COVERED: 1906-1966 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Personal background; description of father's early pharmacy in Kelowna; early Kelowna history; interest in medicine; medical training at the University of Toronto; description of a few of the women in class; internship at Vancouver General Hospital in 1932; went to Kelowna for five years; the Depression; Indian doctor; description of practice there; decision to go into public health. TR;ACK 2: Public health course in Toronto; war wound commission in Toronto; unit director of Metropolitan Health; Director of School of Health Services; community health projects; Mary Pack; Jericho Hill School; involvement with Community Chest; polio outbreak in 1952 to 1955; Director of Metropolitan Health.

Record books

This series consists of a variety of registers and record books created by various provincial mental health institutions from 1872 to 1998. These records were created by institutions including: Victoria Asylum, New Westminster Provincial Asylum (later Public Hospital for the Insane or Provincial Hospital for the Insane), Essondale (later Riverview), Home for the Aged (later Valleyview), Dellview, Skeenaview, Crease Clinic, Woodlands School and others. Not all volumes clearly identify which building or institution they are associated with.

The subjects of the volumes and their contents vary greatly. Many of them relate to other series in the BC Archives. The registers have been arranged in the following subject based subseries:

  1. Casebooks. This subseries only includes one volume providing a description of each of the first patients at the hospital, including how and why they were admitted, their history and treatment. Later casebooks can be found in GR-1754.

  2. Death and Cemetery records. This includes death registries, morgue records, cemetery record books showing the plots individuals were laid in and some medical certificates of death. Volumes may include information such as: name, date of death, date of burial, name of Minister, name of Undertaker, lot and block of cemetery plot, patient number, time in asylum, age, religion, cause of death, form of insanity, gender, and marital status.

  3. Admissions records. These volumes provide basic information about patients entered on their admission. Many of these volumes likely relate to the Home for the Aged (later known as Valleyview) based on patient demographics listed in the records. Recorded information may include patient number, name, residence, date of admission, relatives, religion, nationality, occupation, age, gender, marital status, level of education, physical state, date of transfer, date of death or discharge, form of admission, ward, and remarks.

  4. Number registers. These records relate to and may overlap with Admission registers. Upon admission each patient was assigned a mental health service number. This number system was used across all provincially operated mental health institutions. It appears that only a single register was used at any given time until about 1960, when individual hospitals began each using their own registers. Each hospital received a block of 100 numbers from the central registry. When they had assigned all numbers to their new patients they requested a new block of numbers. This means there is no single register in this group of records after 1960. Instead, blocks of numbers are spread among multiple registers. Number registers may record: patient number, name, address, date of admission, type of admission, and ward/building.

  5. Discharge registers. These record how a patient left the hospital’s custody and may specifically note death, various types of leave, escapes and transfers. These may record: name, patient number, gender, date of release or death, date of admission, term of residence, condition, ward, gender, diagnosis, who or where released to, and remarks.

  6. Treatments – operations. Record information about operations patients underwent. Includes: patient number, date, ward, name, age, diagnosis, operation, surgeon, assistant, nurses, anesthesiologist, anesthetic, specimen, and remarks.

  7. Treatments – x-rays. Records x-rays conducted on patients and staff. May include name, region, doctor, date, ward, and x-ray number.

  8. and 9. Treatments- miscellaneous. Each book records different treatments used in the hospital. This includes Electroencephalograms (EEGs), physiotherapy, behavior therapy, lobotomies. Subseries 8 relates to dentures.

  9. Treatments – doctor’s orders and consultations. List the date, patients name and orders or notes.

  10. Census and statistics. Note the date, number of patients in each building, staff on duty (including if away or late), patients died, admitted, discharged, on leave, from leave and transferred, as well as some notes on unusual occurrences.

  11. Miscellaneous. Includes a variety of other registers related to the operations of the hospitals, and appeal examinations for patient release.

Riverview Hospital historical collection

  • Collection
  • 1872-2008

This series consists of a variety of records created by various provincial mental health institutions from 1872 to 2008. Records relate to the administration and operation of Riverview Hospital and related mental health facilities at the Essondale site in Coquitlam, as well as other facilities across the province. These mental health institutions include: Victoria Asylum, New Westminster Provincial Asylum (later Public Hospital for the Insane or Provincial Hospital for the Insane), Home for the Aged Coquitlam (later Valleyview), Home for the Aged Terrace (later Skeenaview), Home for the Aged Vernon (later Dellview), Crease Clinic, Colony Farm, Colquitz, Woodlands School, Tranquille and other medical facilities.

The names and administrative structure of these institutions changed over time. Mental health functions were originally part of the Provincial Secretary’s mandate; they were transferred to Mental Health Services when it was created in 1950.

These government records were collected by the Riverview Historical Society and include a wide variety of subject matter and media. This includes subjects such as: early development of the Essondale lands and Colony Farm; the construction and expansion of the facility; admissions, transfers, and discharges of patients; administration of patient care; administration of therapy programs; patient and staff recreation; staff and nurse training; operation of the audiovisual department; library services; research into new medical and therapeutic practices; research by staff regarding mental health practices at Riverview and further afield; community involvement; volunteer activity; policy development; the redevelopment of the Riverview lands; general administration; and, administration of other services at the site such as postal, food, laundry, banking, transportation and safety services.

The collection has been arranged into the following series based on record types:

GR-3924 - record books
GR-3925 - operational records
GR-3926 - newsletters
GR-3927 - photographs and other graphic material
GR-3928 - films and videos

Classified as 20000-20 in Operational Records Classification System (ORCS) schedule 144007.

British Columbia. Dept. of the Provincial Secretary

Robert Jackson interview

RECORDED: Port Moody (B.C.), 1984-10-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Medical staff at Essondale, 1930s; Arthur "Papa" Crease. Crease's views on care of the mentally ill. Growing up at Essondale during the Depression. Other children (mostly those of doctors). Tuck shop. Essondale school and other schools. Boyhood activities. Mrs. Dorothy Kane, daughter of Dr. McKay. Father's studies and treatments (insulin). Other treatments. Tuberculosis control; radiology. Founding of training school for nurses. TRACK 2: Training school. Veterans' block, west wing of Crease Clinic. Josephine Kilburn, a psychiatric social worker. Crease children, Joan and Fred. Patients. Woodands - Essondale links. Buildings: East Lawn, West Lawn, Hilside, Centre Lawn. Growth of institutional populations.

Royal Columbian Hospital fonds

  • PR-2040
  • Fonds
  • Microfilmed 1951-1952 (originally created 1861-1943)

The fonds consists of records related to the administration of the hospital as well as the admission and treatment of patients. Records include: minute book of board meetings and other hospital meetings (1862-1881); annual reports (1864-1868, 1904); financial records (1862-1904); records of tenders (1862-1916); correspondence, including applications for positions (1861-1903) and miscellaneous records, including by-laws and subscription lists (1863-1908, 1912, 1937 and 1943); case books of Dr. Thomas R. McInnes and Dr. Charles Newland Trew (1874-1882); patient histories, prognosis and orders (1878-1881); record of patient diets (1881-1888); record of patient valuables (1910); and patient registers and admission slips (1862-1901). Also included in this fonds are the minutes of the New Westminster Medical Society (1893-1903) and the treasurer's book of the Women's Auxiliary of the Royal Columbian Hospital (1920-1926).

Royal Columbian Hospital (New Westminster, B.C.)

Royal visit

The item is a release print of a documentary film made in 1951. The film shows Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh visiting Vancouver and Vancouver Island during their 1951 Canadian tour. Footage includes: inspection of RCAF honour guard outside CNR station, greeting by Mayor Fred Hume and the Princess's speech at Vancouver City Hall, appearance at Brockton Point Oval, visit to Shaughnessy Hospital and services at Christ Church Cathedral, crowds on West Vancouver waterfront and HMCS Crusader. In Victoria: parade with the Canadian Scottish Regiment and the Royal Canadian Artillery, Premier Byron Johnson greets the Princess at the Legislative Buildings, honour guard inspection and artillery salute, Cowichan and Alberni Indian dance performance at Thunderbird Park. Return to Vancouver harbour; motorcade up Kingsway Avenue, Burnaby Municipal Hall, Royal Train arrives at New Westminster, departure. There are also good (brief) shots of Kitsilano Boy's Band, Junior Forest Wardens, Major J.S. Matthews, Very Rev. Cecil Swanson (dean of Christ Church), and BC Provincial Police on motorcycles with sidecars.

Saturday at Shaughnessy, 1953-05-16

SUMMARY: Highlights of a Saturday afternoon radio show recorded at Shaughnessy Hospital for evening broadcast on CKWX. Format consists of recorded interviews with veteran patients, hospital staff, and officia;ls of the Mount Pleasant Legion (Branch 177), interspersed with musical requests. This episode includes an interview with patient Merv Carleton, who served with the Canadian Scottish in World War II. ; He discusses the Dieppe Raid and his life in Vancouver. Speakers from Branch 177 discuss the upcoming civl defence program offered there, and the facilities at Branch's community co-op centre, founde;d in 1950.;

Saturday at Shaughnessy, 1953-05-23

SUMMARY: Highlights of a Saturday afternoon radio show recorded at Shaughnessy Hospital for evening broadcast on CKWX. Format consists of recorded interviews with veteran patients, hospital staff, and officia;ls of the Mount Pleasant Legion (Branch 177), interspersed with musical requests.;

Saturday at Shaughnessy, 1953-06-27

SUMMARY: Highlights of a Saturday afternoon radio show recorded at Shaughnessy Hospital for evening broadcast on CKWX. Format consists of recorded interviews with veteran patients, hospital staff, and officia;ls of the Mount Pleasant Legion (Branch 177), interspersed with musical requests.;

Saturday at Shaughnessy, 1953-07-18

SUMMARY: SIDE 1: Highlights of a Saturday afternoon radio show recorded at Shaughnessy Hospital for evening broadcast on CKWX. Format consists of recorded interviews with veteran patients, hospital staff, and; officials of the Mount Pleasant Legion (Branch 177), interspersed with musical requests. This episode includes an interview with patient Ginger Coote, a veteran aviator of World War I and World War I;I, who talks about his experiences as a bush pilot in the Fort Nelson area. Royal Canadian Navy veteran Stanley Carr talks about convoy duty in World War Two. [SIDE 2: blank.];

Saturday at Shaughnessy, 1953-08-08

SUMMARY: SIDE 1: Highlights of a Saturday afternoon radio show recorded at Shaughnessy Hospital for evening broadcast on CKWX. Format consists of recorded interviews with veteran patients, hospital staff, and; officials of the Mount Pleasant Legion (Branch 177), interspersed with musical requests. [SIDE 2: blank.];

Saturday at Shaughnessy, 1953-08-15

SUMMARY: SIDE 1: Highlights of a Saturday afternoon radio show recorded at Shaughnessy Hospital for evening broadcast on CKWX. Format consists of recorded interviews with veteran patients, hospital staff, and; officials of the Mount Pleasant Legion (Branch 177), interspersed with musical requests. [SIDE 2: blank.];

Saturday at Shaughnessy, 1953-08-22

SUMMARY: SIDE 1: Highlights of a Saturday afternoon radio show recorded at Shaughnessy Hospital for evening broadcast on CKWX. Format consists of recorded interviews with veteran patients, hospital staff, and; officials of the Mount Pleasant Legion (Branch 177), interspersed with musical requests. [SIDE 2: blank.];

Saturday at Shaughnessy, 1953-09-26

SUMMARY: SIDE 1: Highlights of a Saturday afternoon radio show recorded at Shaughnessy Hospital for evening broadcast on CKWX. Format consists of recorded interviews with veteran patients, hospital staff, and; officials of the Mount Pleasant Legion (Branch 177), interspersed with musical requests. [SIDE 2: blank.];

Saturday at Shaughnessy, 1953-10-03

SUMMARY: SIDE 1: Highlights of a Saturday afternoon radio show recorded at Shaughnessy Hospital for evening broadcast on CKWX. Format consists of recorded interviews with veteran patients, hospital staff, and; officials of the Mount Pleasant Legion (Branch 177), interspersed with musical requests. [SIDE 2: blank.];

Saturday at Shaughnessy, 1953-10-10

SUMMARY: SIDE 1: Highlights of a Saturday afternoon radio show recorded at Shaughnessy Hospital for evening broadcast on CKWX. Format consists of recorded interviews with veteran patients, hospital staff, and; officials of the Mount Pleasant Legion (Branch 177), interspersed with musical requests. [SIDE 2: blank.];

Saturday at Shaughnessy, 1953-10-17

SUMMARY: SIDE 1: Highlights of a Saturday afternoon radio show recorded at Shaughnessy Hospital for evening broadcast on CKWX. Format consists of recorded interviews with veteran patients, hospital staff, and; officials of the Mount Pleasant Legion (Branch 177), interspersed with musical requests. [SIDE 2: blank.];

Saturday at Shaughnessy, 1953-11-21

SUMMARY: SIDE 1: Highlights of a Saturday afternoon radio show recorded at Shaughnessy Hospital for evening broadcast on CKWX. Format consists of recorded interviews with veteran patients, hospital staff, and; officials of the Mount Pleasant Legion (Branch 177), interspersed with musical requests. This episode includes an interview with veteran Harold Knowles, and one with Celeste Evans of "Showtime", a gr;oup that entertained troops in Korea. [SIDE 2: blank.];

Saturday at Shaughnessy, 1953-12-12

SUMMARY: SIDE 1: Highlights of a Saturday afternoon radio show recorded at Shaughnessy Hospital for evening broadcast on CKWX. Format consists of recorded interviews with veteran patients, hospital staff, and; officials of the Mount Pleasant Legion (Branch 177), interspersed with musical requests. [SIDE 2: blank.];

Saturday at Shaughnessy, [n.d.] : [excerpts]

SUMMARY: Highlights of a Saturday afternoon radio show recorded at Shaughnessy Hospital for evening broadcast on CKWX. Format consists of recorded interviews with veteran patients, hospital staff, and official;s of the Mount Pleasant Legion (Branch 177), interspersed with musical requests.;

Sister Mary Murphy interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Medical missionary work RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-03-10 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Report on history of St. Vincent's; 1939, Sister Mary Ruth founds 103-bed hospital; member Order of Sisters of Charity of St. John; 1939, Archbishop William Duke, founder of order; 1939 to 1957, directorship of hospital by Sister Mary Ruth; personnel of the hospital; O.B.E. awarded; liaison with eastern Canada; Catholic Church in the community; interview;, the church, Archbishop Carney, liaison, Catholic Hospital Association; BC conference; 1975, 300 beds at the hospital, 10% Catholic; care in hospital; sisters as nurses; advantages of Catholic hospital; healing and faith; holistic approach; hope; dealing with death. TRACK 2: Catholic hospital and the welfare state, cost of original hospital wing; others; Grace Hospital; Dr. Donald Watt and the United Church; 1975 new wing; government; future; equity; health teamwork; Sister Marion MacDonald, administrator from 1957 to the present; Dr. Roy Black. medical director; other directors; unionization of hospital; interns; how sisters became nursing sisters; her daily routine; doctors payment.

St. Laurent visit to Vancouver

The item is a reel of unedited footage. Newsreel-type footage showing Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent in Vancouver. Greetings and inspection of guard at CNR station; laying of wreath at Victory Square cenotaph; ceremony in front of City Hall, with good crowd shots; arrival at Shaughnessy Hospital (nurses, patients); talking with students and Dr. N. Mackenzie.

Staff and patient photographs

  • GR-3421
  • Series
  • 1950-1967

The series consists of approximately 1005 black and white photographs taken by Mental Health Services between 1950 and 1967. The photographs consist of black and white prints and 4 x 5 acetate negatives.

The photographs are of Mental Health Services staff based at Essondale, Crease Clinic and Woodlands School. Some patient photographs are included. Some of the photographs show staff at work and were used for annual reports and other publications and some are "passport" style portraits. Most of the people in the photographs are identified and many include photograph classification numbers.

The photographs are arranged alphabetically by last name. The prints are in container 890935-0012 and the negatives are in container 890935-0010.

British Columbia. Dept. of the Provincial Secretary

T.D. Stout interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Development of blood transfusion service in B.C. RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-03-10 SUMMARY: Dr. T.D. Stout, Director of Blood Transfusion Services for the Red Cross in BC, discusses: personal background; intern at VGH in 1949; graduated University of Manitoba in 1950; director of the Red Cross blood transfusion service in 1955; history of the transfusion service since 1947; previous situation; cost to run and financing arrangements; clinic arrangements; staff; scheduling; equipment and collection; testing of blood; specimen tubes, and a description of storage and life of blood; distribution; labeling; use of multiple bags and the different components of blood; changes to bags in 1967; why; increased tests; 1970 autoanalyser; hepatitis B test; sophistications; loss of blood; daily storage requirements; unusual blood groups; cost of unit; supply district; assessment of service, standards and the value of volunteers and donors.

Ted Bain interview

CALL NUMBER: T1986:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Director of Medical Services; Veteran's Affairs, Ottawa PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1976 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-03-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Goes to Ottawa as Director of Medical Services for Veteran's Affairs. Christie Street Hospital in Toronto from 1942 to 1943; what this position involved; how Sunnybrook Hospital started and the other administrative problems of the building; in 1950, he came to Vancouver and was Chief Medical Officer of Shaughnessy Hospital. Discussion of Shaughnessy and how he worked there; meeting Princess Margaret, Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip; John Diefenbaker, Louis St. Laurent; Danny Kaye and Bob Hope. TRACK 2: Discussion of the people he met; being awarded the OBE; conclusion of interview -- how medicine has changed, and prevailing attitudes in medicine today. CALL NUMBER: T1986:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dr. T. Bain, Veteran's Affairs and Shaughnessy Hospital PERIOD COVERED: 1898-1940 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-03-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Born in 1898 in Huntley, Aberdeenshire, Scotland; schooling in Scotland; came to Toronto at 14; got job at Eaton's; enlisted in 1915; discussion of army life; training and overseas; in 48th Highlanders, 15th Battalion; went overseas in 1916, Vimy Ridge and Ypres; deciding to go to University of Toronto to take medicine in 1920; description of classes and classmates; interest in public health. TRACK 2: Graduated in medicine in 1926; then interned at Toronto General Hospital; lived at Knox College at the university; entered overseas service to examine immigrants to Canada; went to England; went to William Head on Vancouver Island; quarantine station; 30 cases of smallpox; how the Depression affected him and the people he saw; description of William Head and its purpose; stayed until 1939 and went to Vancouver to take over Shaughnessy Hospital; brief history of Shaughnessy Hospital; how he got his next position.

The little boy who did!

SUMMARY: SIDE 1: Public service broadcast as contribution to the March of Dimes campaign. In a program about Children's Hospital, Ross Mortimer tells the story of a crippled boy and his recovery. [SIDE 2: blan;k.];

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