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Title: The Canadian nurse
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Canadian Nurses' Association
Subjects: Nurses Nursing and Nursing Management Periodicals
Publisher: (Ottawa, etc. Canadian Nurses' Association)
Contributing Library: University of Ottawa
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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Text Appearing Before Image:
Registered Nurses of the Province of
Quebec in allowing their exhibit to be
an attractive feature of The Canadian
Nurse booth. The display of this unique
exhibit will surely promote a larger cir-
culation of our national nursing journal.
Social functions were interspersed
with business. The evening before the
opening of the general meetings the
Board of Directors were the guests of
the Executive of District Five at a din-
ner at the Granite Club. On Thursday
afternoon the nurses of District Five
entertained the delegates at a tea and
treasure hunt in the Royal Ontario
Museum. The student nurses were en-
tertained at a luncheon, given by the
Toronto Inter-school Student Nurse
Association, at the University of Toron-
to School of Nursing.
The officers elected were: President,
Miss Constance Brewster; First Vice-
President, Miss Jean L. Church; Sec-
ond Vice-President, Miss Mildred I.
Walker; Secretary-Treasurer, Miss
Matilda E. Fitzgerald.
MATILDA E. FITZGERALD,
Secretary treasurer, Registered Nurses
Association of Ontario.
VOL. XXXV, No. 6
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The Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada

Delegates from all parts of Canada
assembled in Ottawa early in April at
the Annual Meeting of the Victorian
Order of Nurses for Canada. These
men and women who voluntarily give
of their time and substance to the end
that the sick in Canada shall receive
skilled nursing care and be taught the
principles of healthful living, met to-
gether to discuss what had been ac-
complished during the past year and to
plan for the future.
The main topic of the meetings, name-
ly, what part shall be played by the
Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada
in the public health programme of the
future, ran like a brightly coloured
thread through the warp and woof of
discussion throughout the two-day con-
ference. As in the business world,
so with the voluntary agency, many prob-
lems present themselves in these uncer-
tain troublous times. Faced with re-
duced income and increased expendi-
ture on the one hand, and a crying
need for service in many parts of Can-
ada on the other, those responsible for
the work of the Order must make impor-
tant decisions, not forgetting that
the work of the voluntary agency must
always be supplementary to that of the
official agency.

Thought was clarified and encour
-agement and inspiration to go on
to greater things was given by Dr. Wal-
lace of Queen’s University, in his ad-
dress, “A Layman Looks at the Order”.
Miss Ruth Houlton, Associate Director
of the National Organization for Pub-
lic Health Nursing, was also very help-
JUNE, 1939 321

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