A new Coquitlam Archives online exhibit shines a spotlight on the history of nursing in the Tri-Cities.
Titled An Emerging Profession: Psychiatric Nursing at Essondale, 1913-1973, the exhibit has information, documents and archive photographs from the School of Psychiatric Nursing once located on today’s Riverview Hospital grounds. The presentation is in honour of International Nurses Day and the 200th anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth, which are both held on May 12.
“Psychiatric nursing in British Columbia has a distinct history parallel to the development of the profession in Canada,” the city said in a press release. “B.C. charted its own course with training that was separate from general nursing schools.”
To view the exhibit, go to coquitlam.ca/nursing. For more information about the Coquitlam Archives, go to coquitlam.ca/archives.
