Peace Arch Hospital Auxiliary Celebrates 75 Years
In times of need, the right people step up to help their community.
So it was in 1948, when women in White Rock and South Surrey – rapidly growing as a year-round residential area after the Second World War – decided it had been without its own hospital for far too long, and that the time had come to do something about it. The dedication, persistence and far-sightedness of the volunteers who began the Peace Arch Hospital Auxiliary Society is still being celebrated 75 years later – with a special anniversary dinner for auxiliary members planned for May 1 at the Semiahmoo Fish and Game Club.
The actual date of the founding of the auxiliary, then known as the White Rock Hospital Society Women’s Auxiliary, was April 29, 1948.