About
2025 Nursing History Symposium – April 14
BC NURSING HISTORY
Celebrating 35 Years Dedicated to Preserving the
History of Nursing in BC
1990 to 2025
Keynote speaker: Dr. Megan Davies
The nurses of Hornby Island: Post-career Pathways
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Panel to follow: ‘Sharing experiences of preserving our history’
Location: Cecil Green Park House
Cecil Green Park House 6251 Green Park Road: Google Maps
Time: 9:30 am – 2:00 pm
ONLINE and IN PERSON
Closest location for Parking is at the Rose Garden Parkade: Google Maps
The nurses of Hornby Island: Post-career Pathways
Megan's presentation explores the work of a group of nurses pivotal to the establishment of an early home support society on BC's Hornby Island in the late 1970s. The Hornby Island nurses - many of them retirees - served as volunteer members of the society's board, transcending their professional practice by engaging with a new provincial “social health” program, sometimes as health activists representing elders from their remote rural community. Yet they remained definitively nurses. Themes of nursing leadership, nursing identity, nursing practices of organization and management and shared nursing knowledge and ways of seeing shaped their work, and also this study.
Bio
Megan J. Davies is a Professor (Emerita), Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada. She is a historian of health with a regional focus on BC. She currently works on old age, madness, and everyday medicine. As part of the MadnessCanada.com community, Megan has participated in a number of academic-community collaborations, most notably the 2013 documentary, The Inmates Are Running the Asylum. In January 2022, with the support of a Shadbolt Fellowship, Megan launched COVID in the House of Old, a public exhibit, website and podcast. She has numerous publications on health history.
Date & Time
Mon, April 14, 2025
Location
Cecil Greene Park House
6251 Cecil Green Park Rd
Vancouver BC V6T 1X8
Canada
