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.
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