@prefix edm: . @prefix dcterms: . @prefix dc: . @prefix skos: . edm:dataProvider "CONTENTdm"@en ; dcterms:isReferencedBy "http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/u_arch/johns.pdf"@en ; dcterms:isPartOf "History of Nursing in Pacific Canada"@en ; dcterms:creator "Johns, Ethel"@en ; dcterms:issued "2014-11-18"@en ; dcterms:created "1955-12-13"@en ; edm:aggregatedCHO "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/etheljohns/items/1.0051551/source.json"@en ; dcterms:extent "2 pages : typed"@en ; dc:format "image/jpeg"@en ; skos:note """ Photocopy of letter to Kiss C.V. Barrett 4519 Fifteenth Ave* West Vancouver, 8 B*C* December 15* 1955 Dear CVB : It was good to get your letter and the lovely little picture of the St Louis Gate* I can well imagine that the last few months were not easy to bear but I still contend that so-called "retirement" can be a happy and even creative experience* You must lie fallow for a time but before long you will be blossoming like the Biblical green bay tree* But you must learn to feed yourself well — none of that tea and toast business when you are alone* The budgies can be very endearing and several times Ifve been tempted to have one* The trouble is that I still have that itching foot and the little things don't like being boarded out* However* I do have some birds in the back garden! There is a small feeding tray up on a post with a roof over it and it is great fun to w^tch them these fdosty mornings• Usually, there are just juncos but in the Arctic weather we are having in this banana belt, we sometimes get more colourful visitors* I just looked out of the back window and there was a towhee, complete with speckled waistcoat and black topkno** Later on, there may be a varied thrush or two* I3y little grey home in the West has had its face lifted and now looks very stylish* A new Duroid roof* mixed jade green and frosty white, windows white with green edges and front door the same* Most of it paid for v/ith this little typewriter, believe it or not* Like you, I hate the slippery streets and as a rule we are not bothered very much v/ith them here, But when we get a"silver rain" look out* I heard that you could get stuff to put on the soles of your rubbers and went in search of it* It is grand, but \\ery messy to put on — it really is a sort of asphalt — and you must be careful not to enter your friends1 abode without leaving your footwear on the doorstep* It is called "Grit Kit" -- why not ask Batons about it? Montreal and Vancouver seems to be rivals in the riot business* Our police department has been gximtx going through a horrible scandal and there is even talk that the Mounted Police may have to take over for a time* The "teen-agers" are a menace and there seems to be no way of controlling them* One wonders a bit about the merits of "progressive education" ~ my own feeling is that you Catholics are right in your view that you can't separate religious and academic education* (Please turn over) Last summer my WGH Alumnae Assn. decided to get the history of our school of nursing written and you can guess v/ho got elected to do it* however, I made my own terms — no pay of any kind other than out of pocket expenses such as travel* I spent a month luxuriously housed in the Nurses Residence at the Winnipeg General ^ospital and dug up the rmist^trchives since 18671 It was a weird sort of experience, some of it, rather like seeing a film of one's early life run off backwards* x'ow I'm plugging away happily at the manuscript* If I have my v/ay, it won't be a long book — perhaps a bit bigger than the MGH* Well, my dear, God bless you and your home and your budgie* And be proud that you can feel that you helped a goodly proportion of *oung Canada to make a three-point safe landing on this stornjy planet of ours. % """@en, "Photocopy."@en ; edm:hasType "Correspondence"@en ; dcterms:identifier "ARC-Ethel_Johns-1-37"@en, "Ethel_Johns_01_37_01"@en ; edm:isShownAt "10.14288/1.0051551"@en ; dcterms:language "English"@en ; edm:provider "Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library"@en ; dcterms:rights "Digital copies are provided for research and personal use only. For permission to publish or otherwise use this material contact the UBC Archives at lib-ubcarchives@lists.ubc.ca"@en ; dcterms:source "Original Format: University of British Columbia. Archives. Ethel Johns fonds. Correspondence. Letters: Outgoing. 1947-1957. ARC-Ethel_Johns-1-37"@en ; dcterms:subject "Nursing"@en ; dcterms:title "[Letter from Ethel Johns to Caroline V. Barrett]"@en ; dcterms:type "Text"@en ; dcterms:description ""@en .