International Council of Nurses Memorabilia
Canadian nurses have played an
important role in the International Council of Nurses (ICN),
which was founded in 1899 by Ethel Gordon Fenwick, a British
suffragist and nurse. Canadian nursing leader
Mary Agnes Snively served as the
Honorary Treasurer from 1900 to 1904, and was instrumental in
forming a national nurses' organization in Canada in 1908,
partly in order to send Canadian delegates to the ICN meeting
in London the following year. Twenty-five delegates went to
London in 1909, and Canadian nurses have remained active in the
organization. Today, the
ICN
represents nurses in more than 120 countries.
The ICN holdings include approximately 20 artifacts relating to
the organization, dating from 1929 to 1997, including delegate
ribbons, plaques, T-shirts, pins and souvenirs [e.g. commemorative plaque
2000.111.435;
toy
2000.111.110].
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