2025:
Drs. Geertje Boschma, Sonya Grypma and Esyllt Jones, Between Pandemics: The Wax and Wane of Public Health Nursing in Canada, 1918-2020
Drs. Audrey Steenbeek, Seema Rani, Shilpi Sarkar, Fareha Khan, Mellisa Rothfus, Alyssa Indar, Strengthening Healthcare Through the Integration and Optimization of Community Health Workers (CHWs):A Collaborative Knowledge Mobilization Assembly Between Nova Scotia and India
2024 Dr. Cheryl Pollard, University of Regina and Co-Applicants Dr. Holly Graham and Dr. Amelie Blanchet Garneau
“Deconstructing the Lamp”
2023 Alistair White
“The Complex Role of Public Health Nurses in the Yukon: A Historical Analysis of Gender, Race and Colonialism, 1945-1990”
Lorelei Newton
“The Influx of technology on outpost practices over the last century”
2022 Dr. Cheryl Pollard, University of Regina and Co-Applicant Dr. James Dashcuk
“Exploring historical contexts and structures that impacted nursing and the health of Indigenous”
2021 No Applications
2020 Myriam Lévesque, Laval University
“Between tension and adaptation: Nursing practice with the Innus in the northeastern area of Quebec (la Minganie et de la Basse-Côte-Nord Québécoise): Perspectives on the photographs of nurse Pauline Laurin (1949–1960)”
Travis Hay, Lakehead University
“Learning Skills Typically Reserved for Doctors’: The Emergence of Northern Nurse Practitioner Programs, 1972-1985”
Emily Kaliel, University of Guelph
“Rabbits, and Partridges, and Moose, Oh My!: Food, Nutrition, and Public Health in Northern Prairie Communities, 1929-1985”
2019 North de Pencier, University of Toronto
“Delivering Mental Health Care through Outpost Nursing Stations at Sioux Lookout Zone Hospital, 1969-1996”
2018 Dr. Matthew S. Wiseman, University of Toronto
“Frontier Healthcare: Nursing at the Fort Churchill Military Hospital, 1948-1984”
Dr. Alessandra Iozzo-Duval, University of Ottawa
“Nursing the North: Intersections of gender, race and visual culture in Canada’s North, 1900-1960”
2017 Martha Groppo, Princeton University
“Making the Periphery Central: Nursing, Rural Healthcare, and the Anglo World, 1887-1939”
Sylvane Filice, Lakehead University and Co-Applicant Michelle Spadoni
“Nursing Lives of Francophone Community Health Nurses in Remote and Rural Northern Ontario”
2016 Peter Twohig, Saint Mary’s University
“Renegotiating Nursing Labour: Debating Scope of Pracitce and Labour Supply in Canada’s North, 1965-1980”
Jennifer Fraser, University of Toronto
“From Carcinomas to Eskimomas: Examing the Role of Indian Health Services in the Control of Circumpolar Cancer”
2015 Helen Vandenberg, University of Saskatchewan and Co-Applicants Lesley McBain, Geertje Boschma, and Laurie Meijer Drees
“Inventory of Archival Sources for Historical Research on Outpost Nursing and Remote Hospital History in Northwestern Canada, 1880-1960
Two books are now available from this project! Information available here.
2012 Lesley McBain
“Nursing in Northern ‘Company’ Health Care Facilities”
2011 Myra Rutherdale, York University
“‘We Wanted an Adventure’: Career Paths for Nurses in Northern Canada, 1930-1970”
2010 Kristin Burnett, Lakehead University with Geoff Hudson, Northern Ontario School of Medicine
“Follow-up study on the papers of Vera Roberts deposited at Lakehead University”
2008 Myra Rutherdale, York University
“Partners, patients, and place: Patterns of nursing experiences in Pangnirtung, 1930-1970”
Kristin Burnett, Lakehead University and Geoff Hudson, Northern Ontario School of Medicine
“The nursing career of Vera Roberts as health care provider in the far North”
Joyce McQueen
“Expenses for travel and research to prepare a biography of Vera Roberts”
Biography appeared in the CAHN Fall 2008 newsletter and is available here!
2007 Carol Helmstadter and Judith Young
Northern panel at CAHN/ACHN International Nursing History Conference