Kingston General Hospital School of Nursing Alumnae Collection
Category
Archival
Nursing
Education
Commemorative and Communication Artifacts
Classification
Archival
Nursing
Education
Commemorative and Communication Artifacts
Accession Number
995002147 a-b
Description
Registered nurse paper diploma with embosed red paper seal has decorative green border and hand written graduates name (a); Province of Ontario certificate; tightly rolled into cardboard mailing tube (b) with paper mailing address and two stamps, two and five cents. Cardboard tube with open ends wi…
Registered nurse paper diploma with embosed red paper seal has decorative green border and hand written graduates name (a); Province of Ontario certificate; tightly rolled into cardboard mailing tube (b) with paper mailing address and two stamps, two and five cents. Cardboard tube with open ends with a piece ripped and missing on the right end; two stamps on the right end for two and five Canadian cents; stamp in blue ink at left end; white paper label with a type written address in centre (a); paper diploma and with a green boarder, black text, and red underlines under important segments; orange paper seel in bottom left corner (b).
Number Of Parts
2
Part Names
a - diploma - Size: Length 37.5 cm x Width 26.3 cm
b - tube - Size: Length 31.6 x Diameter 17.0 cm
Provenance
Owned by Miss Beulah G. Burleigh; donated by the Kingston General Hospital Nursing Alumnae.
Printed on diploma: "Province of Ontario // This is to Certify that // Beulah Burleigh // having duly complied with the of the Act respecting // The Registration of Nurses and the regulations thereunder has this day been duly // registered in the department of the Provincial Secretary and while so registered // may be designated and use the title // Registered Nurse / 7 April 1923 // Certificate No. 23-169".; Stamped on tube: "REGISTRAR // NURSES REGISTRATION // DEPT. OF PROVINCIAL SECRETARY // PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS // TORONTO"; typed on label on tube: "Miss Beulah G. Burleigh, // 31 Livingston Ave., // Kingston, Ont. // 169"
Permanent Location
Storage Room 2005
2005-1-5 Box 25
Condition Remarks
Paper seal peeling off of diploma; label peeling off of tube; corner of tube ripped off and missing; stamps on tube are ripped and peeling.
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
Person
Timelines
Reference Comments
Marilyn Boston
RNAO’S PROUD PAST, June 2013. https://rnao.ca/sites/rnao-ca/files/RNAOs_Proud_Past_-_June_2013.pdf
Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario. https://rnao.ca/sites/rnao-ca/files/RNAOs_Proud_Past.pdf
Research Facts
Beulah Burleigh graduated from the Kingston General Hospital School of Nursing in 1928. Through the efforts of the Graduate Nurses' Association of Ontario, a Nurses’ Registration Act was passed by the Ontario government in 1922. The Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, by 1935, was instrumental in developing standards for nursing education and practice. The association protected the title “registered nurse” by making it mandatory to be registered. Nurses had to graduate from nursing school and subsequently be examined again in order to become registered nurses in Ontario. Examinations for the Registered Nurse Certificate began in 1923.