A window on the west wall of Christ Church Cathedral, at the corner of Burrard and Georgia Streets in Vancouver, is dedicated “to the Nursing Sisters of Vancouver in both war and peace.” The window was made by Abbot & Co Ltd, Lancaster, England. It was dedicated at a special service held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Canadian Nurses Association on Sunday 25 June 1950.
At the top of the window is the crest of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps. The crest of the Vancouver General Hospital is bottom right. The family crest of Major James Skitt Matthews is bottom left. Matthews was the City of Vancouver’s first archivist. His wife, Emily Eliza Edwardes Matthews, was instrumental in collecting and cataloguing the initial archival collection. She served as a nursing sister in England and Salonika during WW1. James commissioned the window in honour of Emily, who died in 1948.
Read more about Emily in You Should Know: About the Local Nurse and Archivist Who Saved Vancouver, Scout Magazine, 13 March 2013.
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October 17, 2022 at 08:34
You may find this project interesting from Stittsville, Ontario.
May they rest in peace.
Edna Marlow – Stittsville
17 Oct 2022
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October 17, 2022 at 17:28
Do you mean the new memorial plaque near the Stittsville cenotaph? I’m looking forward to seeing it, Edna.