History of RPNs in BC: 1950 - 1999

Essondale reaches its peak population of 4,630 patients. Pennington Hall opens, providing recreational services to patients. Patients are house in dorms with little privacy which is a practice that carried on for decades.

New Westminster's Public (now called Provincial) Hospital for the Insane is renamed Woodlands School. Draft legislation is initiated which results in the proclamation on April 13, 1951, of the Psychiatric Nurses Act of British Columbia and the founding of the Psychiatric Nurses Association of B.C. (PNABC).