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Accepted In Bella Bella: A Historical Exemplar Of A Missionary Nursing Education, In British Columbia From 1921-1925, Sarah C. Cook, Sonya Grypma
Accepted In Bella Bella: A Historical Exemplar Of A Missionary Nursing Education, In British Columbia From 1921-1925, Sarah C. Cook, Sonya Grypma
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This study explores the largely-unknown history of missionary nursing on British Columbia’s Northwest Coast between 1901 and 1925, built around the experience of nurse Doris Nichols. From 1903 until 1935 in the Haíɫzaqv (Heiltsuk) village of Wáglísla (Bella Bella) there existed a small but persistent school of nursing within a Methodist mission hospital. The hospital was built with the intention to bring spiritual and physical healing to local Indigenous people, however the medical missionaries served all in need along the central coast, and the nursing school sustained this mission. Nichols arrived at Bella Bella in 1921, where she began her …