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Photographs

The series consists of photographs predominantly depicting aspects of social and administrative life at Riverview Hospital and the School of Psychiatric Nursing as well as and Colony Farm. The photographs in the series portray the everyday social life of Riverview Hospital staff and volunteers as well as events, meetings, gatherings, and kinds of work they undertook. Additionally the series depicts scenes of Riverview Hospital's many buildings in varying states of completion, portraits of prize winning livestock (Holstein cattle, Clydesdale and Belgian horses), scenes during periods of flooding at Colony Farm, and equipment, vehicles, and technology used by the Hospital.

The glass plate negatives in Subseries 01 and 04 are known to have been taken by W.J. Moore, a prominent Vancouver photographer. It is possible that the entire collection was taken by W.J. Moore, although it has not been possible to confirm. Some photographs in Subseries 02 are thought to depict the Provincial Hospital for the Insane in New Westminster. Photographs in Subseries 04 are also thought to depict the Dominion Experimental Farm in Agassiz, B.C.

Record types consists largely of silver gelatin negatives in large format cellulose acetate sheets and cellulose acetate film strips. The subseries also contains a collection of glass plate negatives, chromogenic colour negative film strips and large format sheets, silver gelatin DOP prints, a photograph album, and a scrapbook.

Photographs

The series includes 25 digital photographs (jpg) taken by members of the Burquitlam Community Association (BCA) in 2004. The photographs depict local landmarks as well as a BCA meeting held in November, 2004.

Burquitlam Community Association

Portrait of the May Queen and her Attendants (1941)

The item consists of a B&W portrait of the May Queen and her Attendants from 1941. The young women pictured in the photograph (from left to right) are: Top row - Euphemia Thompson (Maid of Honour), Joyce Brown (Maid of Honour), Gilbert Gamache (May Queen), Lois Jago (Miss Canada), Dolly Boe (Record Bearer); Bottom row - Simone Grimard (Flower Girl), and Jeannette L'Heureux (Flower Girl).

Portrait of the May Queen and her Attendants (1942)

The item consists of a B&W portrait of the May Queen and her Attendants from 1942. The young women pictured in the photograph (from left to right) are: Shirley Christmas (Flower Girl), Edith Alexander (Maid of Honour), Peggy Brittain (May Queen), Ruth Nyhang (Record Bearer), Dorothy Thacker (Miss Canada), Angeline Roberge (Maid of Honour), Doreen Cornelius (Flower Girl).

Portrait of the May Queen and her Attendants (1943)

The item consists of a B&W portrait of the May Queen and her Attendants from 1943. The young women pictured in the photograph (from left to right) include: Dolly Boe (Maid of Honour), Beverley Gold (Flower Girl), Pauline Pelcher (May Queen), Helen Gagn? (Miss Canada), Beverley Caddy (Maid of Honour), Doris Poncelet (Record Bearer), and Shirley Kenward (Flower Girl).

Portrait of the May Queen and her Attendants (1944)

The item consists of a B&W portrait of the May Queen and her Attendants from 1944. The young women pictured in the photograph (from left to right) include: Camille Leclair (Maid of Honour), Gloria Fife (Miss Canada), Mary Charlton (May Queen- top), Myrna Butler (Flower Girl- bottom), Betty Shankowitz (Flower Girl), Roland Payer (Maid of Honour- top), Joan Cooper (Record Bearer- bottom).

Portrait of the May Queen and her Attendants (1945)

The item consists of a B&W portrait of the May Queen and her Attendants from 1945. The young women pictured in the photograph (from left to right) include: Joan McIntyre (Maid of Honour), Anita Carpenter (Flower Girl), Doris Filiatrault (May Queen), Jean Trickey (Miss Canada), Vivian Desaulnier (Flower Girl), Helen Anderson (Maid of Honour), Patricia Oxtoby (Record Bearer).

Portrait of the May Queen and her Attendants (1946)

The item consists of a B&W portrait of the May Queen and her Attendants from 1946. The young women pictured in the photograph include: Shirley Christmas (May Queen- top middle), Shirley Williams (Maid of Honour- top left), Jeanne Carrier (Maid of Honour- top right), Vivian Noel (Miss Canada- right middle), Merle Cooper (Record Bearer- right bottom), Patricia Cosser (Flower Girl- bottom middle), and Eileen Severdid (Flower Girl- bottom left).

Portrait of the May Queen and her Attendants (1947)

The item consists of a B&W portrait of the May Queen and her Attendants from 1947. The young women pictured in the photograph include: Jeannette Barber (Flower Girl- left bottom), Teresa Albert (Maid of Honour- left middle), Mary Zaharko (Miss Canada- left top), Patricia Hartigan (May Queen), Sheila Kaila (Maid of Honour), Diane Randall (Flower Girl), Velma Hale (Record Bearer).

Portrait of the May Queen and her Attendants (1948)

The item consists of a B&W portrait of the May Queen and her Attendants from 1948. The young women pictured in the photograph (from left to right) include: Gail Davies (Maid of Honour), Diane Hachey (Flower Girl), Alice Burslem (May Queen), Linda Martin (Flower Girl), Ann Stoddart (Miss Canada), Claudette Lambert (Maid of Honour), Diane Bouthot (Record Bearer).

Programs, Projects, Grants, and Committees

The series consists of records related to various programs, projects, grant applications, and committees. The records include reports, promotional materials, pamphlets, photographs, grant applications, news clippings, and other assorted documents.

Burquitlam Community Association

Proposed Closure of Burquitlam Elementary research documents and brief

The file contains the research materials compiled by the Burquitlam Elementary School Parents Association Ad Hoc Committee on School Closure for a brief to submit to School District No. 43 to dispute the proposed closure of the school in 1987. Records include the finished brief, photographs and a traffic study for student safety, enrollment, community school use and teaching staff statistics, cost saving statistics, letters of community support, and a petition.

Burquitlam Elementary School

Reference Materials

This series consists of assorted materials collected for reference purposes by the Riverview Hospital Historical Society and originally acted as a reference library when the Society ran its museum. It contains publications, clipped articles, studies, DVDs, transcripts, and pamphlets. In addition to its reference collection, the series contains a subseries of the scholarly communications and theses arising from research undertaken at Riverview Hospital. Many publications are originals; however this series also consists of copies of articles.

For newsletters created by Riverview Hospital that were an original, distinct collection from the museum library collection, see Series 03: Riverview Hospital Publications and Communications. For newspaper clipping files that also were an original, distinct collection from the museum library, see Series 06: News Clippings.

Riverview Hospital Historical Society collection

  • CA CCOQ C5
  • Collection
  • 1870 - 2020

The Riverview Hospital Historical Society collection consists of the records collected and maintained by the Riverview Hospital Historical Society (RHHS). Through their museum and library, the RHHS acquired and stewarded records documenting the history of Riverview Hospital, the British Columbia School of Psychiatric Nursing, and the history of psychiatric care in British Columbia.

The collection consists of a range of documentary forms, including: reports, theses, newspaper clippings, newsletters, publications, correspondence, manuals, plans and drawings, directories, inventories, procedures, programmes, annuals, invitations, motion pictures, personal narratives, staff lists, minutes, study notes, scrapbooks, ephemera, and photographs depicting aspects of social and administrative life at the hospital and school.

The collection is arranged into ten series that reflect original collections maintained by the RHHS, and are organized by media type or content. See the Arrangement note below for more information.

British Columbia. School of Psychiatric Nursing

Riverview Hospital Publications and Communications

This series consists of publications and communications created by Riverview Hospital and related agencies, including the titles Association News - News of the Essondale Branch of the B.C. Government Employees Association; Connections; Insight - Riverview Hospital Staff Newsletter; the Leader; Mental Health Branch Newsletter, Mental Health Services News, Outasight, Riverview Hospital Review, the Provincial and the Riverview Hospital Volunteer Association.

Record types include letter size booklets and photocopies of publications.

Riverview staff publications

This subseries consists of scholarly communications of Riverview Hospital staff as well as materials collected for the purposes of reference and future research. It was originally a division in the museum library collection.

Records include articles reprinted from medical and psychiatric journals, proceedings from symposia and conferences, and other scholarly publications used for reference.

Riverview-related publications

This subseries consists of public relations communications about the history and development of Riverview Hospital made by the Province, privately owned television, and from the Hospital itself. It was originally a division in the museum library collection. This subseries shows aspects of life at Riverview Hospital from anecdotes of former employees, to land use surveys, and digitized videos of different hospital wings and buildings.

Record types include reports, pamphlets, a videocassette, and DVDs containing digitized materials.

School of Psychiatric Nursing Records

This series consists of records created and accumulated by the School of Psychiatric Nursing at Riverview Hospital. It includes administrative and financial records that informed the operation of the School, annuals (yearbooks) of each graduating class of the School, the publications accumulated from national psychiatric nursing organizations, as well as graduation and departmental photographs.

Record types in this series include manuals, reports, policies, handbooks, staff lists, event programmes and invitations, minutes, study notes, yearbooks, and publications.

British Columbia. School of Psychiatric Nursing

Scrapbook "Shyla's Book"

The scrapbook contains photographs, newspaper clippings, greeting cards, invitations, and other textual records. The scrapbook was created by Nina Seller, Shyla Seller's grandmother, as a gift for Shyla. The contents document milestones in Shyla's life and the life of her family.

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