Series 3 - Professional organizations and conferences

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This series documents the myriad of activities Professor Allemang was involved in during her long career of promoting nursing history and encouraging academics and researchers. The principal organizations represented here are the American Association for the History of Nursing (AAHN), the Canadian Association for the History of Nursing/Association Canadienne pour l'Histoire du Nursing (CAHN/ACHN), the Canadian Nurses Association, on the advisory board of which she sat from 1985-1992; and the Margaret Allemang Centre for the History of Nursing, which she co-founded. The AAHN sponsored an annual conference on the history of nursing, many of which Professor Allemang attended. She co-founded the CAHN with Barbara Keddie from Dalhousie University and organized its first two conferences. It also co-sponsored a periodic International History of Nursing Conference, for which there are files in this series, and organized a series of Hannah lectures funded by the Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine. The Canadian Nurses Association had a number of interest groups under its umbrella, including the Canadian Nursing Research Group, and Professor Allemang sat on its advisory council from 1985 to 1992.

This series also contains files on a number of other health and nursing related organizations in which Professor Allemang was active. One was the Ontario Council of Health where, in the late 1960s, she served on its sub-committee on research in nursing that was chaired by Harding le Riche. Another was the Ontario Society for the History of Nursing, where she was active in its nursing archives survey in the early 1990s. There are also files on a wide range of conferences other than those mentioned above, and on the Elderhostel program in Ontario and the Lambda Pi Chapter, at the University of Toronto, of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing.

The material in this series consists primarily of correspondence, legal documents, minutes, memoranda, flyers, conference programs and presentations, newsletters and reports. The arrangement is alphabetical by name of organization.

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