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Newsletter Layout.Indd The July 2008 Bailliewick Volume 11, Issue 2 Trained to Care: Page 2 the Museum’s new Museum Highlights tribute to Nursing By Paul Robertson, Curator Over the next few months the Ann Page 3 Baillie Building will once again become Executive Director’s a place of nursing education – at least Message in the historical sense. One of the most exciting exhibition projects ever tackled by the Museum of Health Care, our first permanent gallery dedicated to history of Page 4 nursing education at Kingston General Curatorial Corner Hospital will explore the training, work, and residence life of the more than 3000 students who attended the school between 1886 and 1974. cropped image, MHC Collection Archives Page 5 Finding one’s roots ings behind the nursing uniform and cap, Museum Events The aim of this project is to bring the which will be invaluable information for original function of the Ann Baillie Build- the show and long-term collection docu- ing back to life to allow for a more com- mentation. Page 6 plete interpretation of its significance as a Complementing the objects and other National Historic site commemorating the archival materials in the exhibit will be Education Edge history of nursing education in Canada. recorded and transcribed recollections of Constructed in 1904 as the Nurse’s many women who attended the school home, the Ann Baillie Building is the old- over the years. To find and document those Page 7 est of the residential buildings associated stories, research continues to take staff Welcoming New with the KGH School. The KGH appren- in a number of directions; for example, & Saying Thanks ticeship-style training programme was the archival collections at the Museum typical of nursing education once found in and KGH hold paper, photographic, and hospital schools across the country. recorded documentation that have pro- Arranged in themes exploring the na- vided a wealth of fascinating, if not occa- Page 8 ture of the nursing profession, curricula, sionally contradictory details. It’s all part Dr. Margaret Angus of the journey. In 2004 the Museum began distributing its Memory Book questionnaire to ~ continued on page 2 Did you know that throwing the black boots worn with the student nursing uniform over the Ivy Lea Bridge at graduation was not the longstanding ritual once thought? There is no Courtesy KGH Archives consistency and no clear point of origin for this story. Graduating classes as far hospital work, life in residence, and school back as 1933 and perhaps earlier did Museum of Health Care at Kingston traditions, the new Nursing Gallery’s dis- participate; surviving graduates from National Historic Site play of artefacts will be drawn from the the Class of 1934 did not. Some later 32 George Street, Ann Baillie Building Museum’s comprehensive nursing collec- classes also threw their black stockings Kingston ON K7L 2V7 over the bridge; some classes threw tion. A key feature of the two-room gallery their boots over the LaSalle Bridge. Summer Hours: will be a student bedroom restored to the If you are a graduate from the KGH Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 4pm late 1920s period. Perfectly attuned to School of Nursing, please do share your Winter Hours: our curatorial efforts, our 2008 Margaret memories with the museum’s curator, Tuesday to Friday, 10am to 4pm. Angus Research Fellow Andrea Melvin is Paul Robertson. currently exploring the symbolic mean- All Museum images credited Catherine Toews, Jaela Bernstein, Gjennifer Snider, Paul Robertson, Marjorie Bousfield, Hassan Raiesi and Soodabeh Salehi 1 Museum Highlights KGH Nursing Alumnae Return to Ann Baillie – Always Welcome By Jon Hureau, Museum Interpreter On Saturday June 7 and Sunday June In preparation for the weekend I had the 8 the Museum of Health Care had the opportunity to help curatorial staff arrange pleasure of welcoming some graduating some special exhibits. It was fascinating to classes of the KGH Nursing School back learn of the outstanding contributions and to Kingston. In particular, the alumnae achievements of program graduates such were pleased to return to the Ann Baillie as Nancy Malloy, whose life was taken in Building. Having only recently started my 1996 while she served as a medical relief position as Museum Interpreter for the worker for the International Committee summer of 2008, I was glad for the chance of the Red Cross in Chechyna. Moreover, to learn about the history of the nursing between the shared memories of lost program from the first hand accounts of friends, secret marriages, and dreadfully members of the alumnae. Whether it was tight uniform collars it became clear to me a story about sneaking into the building that the Ann Baillie was a special place for past curfew, or a stint of illness spent on Courtesy KGH Archives many. Perhaps it is not surprising, then, the main floor away from classmates, that a number of graduates traveled cross hearing the various tales truly brought the basis. In light of these considerations, ob- country to attend the weekend’s events. museum to life. serving the facial expressions and shared In the end, I would like to thank the When we become too caught up in the laughter of friends who had not seen one alumnae for sharing their stories with tasks of the present, the importance of the another since graduation impressed upon me. The experience made my first week- past can get lost in the mix. This can be me just how important it is to celebrate the end at the museum one that I will always true even when one works in a museum past, even though it may not always seem remember. setting and confronts history on a daily ‘relevant’ today. Did you know that from at least the mid 1940s the autoclaves in KGH’s OR were used by nursing students and interns to pop popcorn, cook hotdogs and even 2 chickens “borrowed” from KGH’s dietary kitchens? Apparently even into the 1970s Café OR was “operational”, providing warmed up take-out pizza to hardworking students in nursing and medicine. Did you know that when interns failed 1932 KGH School of Nursing graduation; standing in front of the Nurses’ Home and the Ann to get their nursing student dates Baillie building extension. Ann Baillie in center. MHC Collection Archives back to residences before evening ~ continued from page 1 curfew they would call upon the much capture graduates’ personal recollec- This rich legacy of information is an loved KGH Night Watchman/Porter tions. As an extension of the Memory Book, invaluable resource to the long-term Tom “Sunshine” Tracey to help them an oral history programme was launched work of the Museum. More importantly, get their “cousins” back behind the in 2008 to give “voice” to nursing gradu- it preserves the memories of those who locked doors of the nursing student residence? ates. Since May, oral historian Jennifer have contributed to the evolving story of Hutson has recorded nearly twenty oral Canadian nursing over the past century. history interviews with nursing graduates Later in 2009, the Museum plans to from the 1930s to the 1970s. Jennifer has launch a complementary website that will Did you know that in order to have encouraged the nurses to recall memories explore the history of nursing education dances, the nursing students would of the challenges they faced at school bal- in the Kingston region. raid the Hospital’s linen closets for ancing education and work, of the lifelong We owe a huge debt to the KGH Nurses’ men’s flannel pajamas? Half the friendships they have forged, and of their Alumnae who have been supportive of this girls would wear their own clothes; commitment to the nursing profession. project from the beginning, helping with the other half would wear the men’s See associated sidebars on this page for a funding, serving on the advisory team, jammies. Men were forbidden in the nursing student residence. few “secrets” Jennifer has collected from her and coordinating the oral histories with captivating subjects. graduates. Thank you Alumnae! 2 Museum of Health Care - The Bailliewick, July, 2008 A Growing Partnership Executive Director’s Message between the Nursing Alumnae and the Museum By Dr. James Low, Executive Director The foundation of the partnership between the Nurses Alumnae and the Museum is imbedded in the Ann Baillie Building that currently houses the Mu- seum of Health Care and the mission of the Museum to enhance public understanding of the history and science of health and health care. The Ann Baillie Building built as a Nurses Home in 1904, is now a National Historic Site symbolizing the development and recognition of nursing as a profession. It was here, a place of their own, helped nurses shape a professional role indispen- sable to health care within the hospital and the community. This School of Nursing established in Members of the KGH Nurses’ Alumnae, Diane Peacock, Judy Douglas, and Bettyann Elliott posing 1886 continued until 1973. The Nurses in what will become the new Nursing gallery Home illustrates the way that nursing leaders used impressive domestic archi- The Museum accepts the responsibil- tecture in conjunction with Nightingale ity to communicate the importance of reforms to turn nursing into a respected this National Historic Site to our visitors. Name That profession. The Nurses’ Home provides the An exhibit of nursing has always been on best site from which to evoke the experi- display and currently a permanent exhibit Artefact ence of nursing: how as nurses formed is under development to tell the story of by Véronique La Rue-Constantineau, Education Assistant professional loyalties and close bonds nursing education as it occurred in this that helped shape their role within the setting.
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