—---- SENIORS

“Keep your mind and
body active through
life,” advises Ellen
(King) Donnan, now 90
years young and still
mentally sharp.

Ellen is not cal a North
Shore treasure, but to many
she will always be their Angel
of the Island — Bowen Island,
that is.

Being a natural nurturer
throughout her life, Ellen’s pri-
mary concern has been people,

- especially those in need,
including, animals. Bad weather
and rough terrain did not keep
her from attending her
patients. To Ellen, fundraising
and working for good causes
were also important and she
worked. tirelessly for whatever

“cause it may be.

_i: Mingting with people has
always come naturally to Ellen
and it was no different on her

“millennium adventure as she
socialized, partied and enjoyed
> the various culinary experiences

throughout the Mediterranean.
* The third oldest of nine sib-

back for $1.50."

Ellen was educated in
Vancouver and upon finishing
school, she studied nursing
during th years 1931 through
“3+. After graduating from
nursing school, she worked for
the nest two vears in the
Infants’ Hospital on Haro
Street, betore taking a position
with the Glen Hospital for
seniors until it dosed. She then
nursed at the Kingsway
Nursing Home in Burnaby tor
three or four years until it. too,
closed because the property

lings, Elien was bom on March | §

27, 1910, in Vancouver to par-

ents Francis Augustus and

- Florence Loretta (Barron).
‘King. Her father was in the

> lumber industry in Vancouver.

-*: Ellen had a happy child- ©
hood, and recalls: “My brother

and [sold the wheel from the
wheelbarrow for $1 and :
bought candy. When our father

came home we expected him

to be angry but he just a

*. laughed and boughr the wheel

was sold to make way for
Metrotown Centre.

Reing a natural nurcurer
and out of work, Ellen then
opened her own 35-bed pri-
vate care facility in Burnaby,
the MeKay Private Nursing
Home which she ran success-
fully until 1965, when she sold
the property.

Ellen married Percy Charles
Dorman in 1938 and bore two
children, Mary Ellen and
James Douglas. Elen aow has
five grandchildren and two
great-grandchildren.

NEWS photo Mike Wakefield

ELLEN Dorman became an integral part of the Bowen
island community. As an unpaid, unofficial public
health nurse, she provided care to the sick and Injured.

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While running her own
business in Burnaby, Ellen and
her children commuted to
Bowen Island on weekends
and sununer holidays. When
there, she was offen called to
treat che sick and injured.

She remembers: “It was
back in about 1960s the Island
held an Ellen Dorman Day in
my honour. Everyone closed
shop and came to the party --
it was a great party.”

So alter closing her business
in 1965, her family moved to
Bowen Island permanently.
Why Bowen Island?

Perev’s parents, Jacob and
Sarah Dorman, had settled at
Dorman Bay on Bowen in the
1880s and died there in the
laze °30s. Ellen became an inte-
graf part of the community, as
an unpaid, unofficial public
heatth nurse providing medical
care to the sick and injured on
the entire island, taking care of
humans and animals alike.

Ellen thought nothing of
climbing up and down
embankment, going through
dense bush and driving over
logging roads to reach her

See Dorman page 26

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