Welcome and Acknowledgements

Opening Remarks, Cynthia Toman

INTRODUCTION : “First World War Nurses: Identity, Transgression and the Limits of Gender,” Meryn Stuart

SESSION 1: Identities, Diversity and Place

• “Constructing the Identity of a Red Cross OutPost Nurse: The Letters of Louise De Kiriline,” Jayne Elliott
• « L’appel du nord : des infirmières dans les régions excentriques du Québec,1932-1972, » Johanne Daigle
• “Health Care Workers in Northern Canadian Aboriginal Communities in the Period from 1945 to 1970,” Myra Rutherdale

SESSION 2: Identities, Diversity and Race

• “The Healing Work of Plains Women in Southern Alberta, 1880—1930,” Kristin Burnett
• “Role of Aboriginal Peoples within Canada’s Indian Health Services, between 1945 and the 1970s,” Laurie Meijer-Drees
• “Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Black Women in Canadian Nursing,” Karen Flynn
• “Organizing Locally, Nationally and Globally: Making Nursing Accountable for Racial Equality in Employment,” Agnes Calliste

SESSION 3: Identities, Diversity and Religion/Philanthropy

• “The Role of Winnipeg’s Voluntary Agencies in the Development of Visiting and Public Health Nursing in Winnipeg, 1904—1945,” Marian McKay
• “Cloistered Spaces: Canadian Missionary Nurses at the North China Mission, 1888—1947,” Sonya Grypma
• “ ‘She thinks of herself as a doctor rather than a nurse’: Expanding Professional Boundaries on the Grenfell Mission Stations in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1939—1981,” Heidi Coombs

Welcoming Reception : University of Ottawa School of Nursing,

Announcement of AMS Nursing History Research Unit

SESSION 4 : Identities, Diversity and Nation

• « La construction d’une mémoire de guerre genre : le rôle des représentations dans l’élaboration du discours des infirmières militaires canadiennes de la première guerre mondiale, » Mélanie Morin
• “ ‘ No Place For Sisters’: Re-presenting Empire at Lemnos and Salonika during the Great War,” Cynthia Toman
• “ ‘Suitable Young Women’: Red Cross Nursing and the Crusade for ‘Healthy Living’ in Manitoba, 1920—1930,” Linda Quiney

SESSION 5 : Identities, Diversity and Training

• “Nursing Education and Apprenticeship in Canada,” Florence Melchior
• “Private Mythologies and Nursing Histories: Apprentice Nurses Confront Nursing Training at Kingston General Hospital,” James Wishart
• “University Nursing Education for Francophones in New Brunswick: The Role of Nuns, Priests, Politicians and Nurses,” Anne Marie Arsenault

Lunch: Sponsored by Associated Medical Services Inc.

Synthesis and Closing REMARKS

“Identity and Diversity: Issues of Categories of Analysis Used in Nursing History Research,” Kathryn McPherson

Exhibition Opening:“A Caring Profession: Centuries of Nursing in Canada”

Bus returns to the University of Ottawa Main Campus