Here are the winners of the BCAHA AMG Then and Now photo contest held in Prince George in April 2019.

Also check out the fabulous 100th Anniversary Photo Album put together by our Historian Sue Lorrie!!  It’s in the Auxiliary room!

First Prize – Auxiliary to the Lions Gate Hospital (North Vancouver): An Auxiliary volunteer takes a reading break in the Auxiliary lounge in the 1970s.   A youth Auxiliary volunteer takes a break in the same lounge in 2019.  In 25 years, what will our volunteer be doing during her/his break?

Second Prize – Langley Memorial Hospital Auxiliary: Volunteers smiling and laughing in 1965 and, again, today.  Not sure if these guys can knit?

 

Third Place – Powell River Health-Care Auxiliary: Powell River Handcraft Group creating items for annual Bazaar in 1989 and 2019.

 

Runner-up – South Cowichan Healthcare Auxiliary: Cooking fun and companionship.

Runner-up – Kelowna Auxiliary to Kelowna General Hospital Foundation:
(below) Margaret Dawson, BCAHA President from 2011–2013, makes
a very special Christmas stocking in 1986; (below) 2018 gifts given by the Auxiliary to any baby born on or after Christmas Day. The next nine boys and nine girls each receive a stocking full of baby items.

 

Runner-up – Sunshine Coast Healthcare Auxiliary.  Our hospital through the years: original building on the dock; St. Mary’s Hospital in Pender Harbour; Sechelt Hospital in Sechelt (photos: Allan Forest).