History


Past Leadership

History


Past Leadership

VHA Home HealthCare (VHA) would like to highlight our past presidents and board members. Each individual listed below has played a key part in developing VHA's history and establishing our organization as a leading homecare agency since 1925.

Past Presidents

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Lexa Denne

First Director of The Visiting Homemakers Association, 1924-1930
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Barbara Blackstock-Cody

President of VHA and Honorary President of VHA, 1925-1960 and 1960-1980
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Marjorie Bell

Executive Director of VHA, 1935-1945
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Elizabeth DeWitt

Executive Director of VHA, 1945-1959
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Elizabeth Carrick

President of VHA, 1958-1961
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Margaret Hoare

President of VHA, 1961-1964
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Kathryn E. Taggart

Executive Director of VHA, 1961-1976

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Catherine Percival

President of VHA, 1964-1966

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Frances Somerville

President of VHA, 1966-1969

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Katharine "Kay" Masters

President of VHA, 1969-1973

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Catharine Fallis

President of VHA, 1973-1976

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Dorothy Martin

President of VHA, 1976-1979

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Pat Thomas

Executive Director of VHA, 1976-1986

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Robert S. Dunlop

Honourary President of VHA, 1980-1982

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Nigel Gunn

President of VHA, 1981-1983

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Lorraine Fortune

President of VHA, 1986-1987

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David Evershed

Executive Director of VHA, 1986-1988

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Marilyn Tory

President of VHA, 1983-1986

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Merrill C. Stafford

Honourary President of VHA, 1986-1998

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Donald Robinson

President of VHA, 1987-1988

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Barbara Stymiest

President of VHA, 1988-1991

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Paul Sinclair

President of VHA, 1991-1993

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Marcia Galliga

President of VHA, 1993-1995

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David Wright

President & CEO of VHA, 1988-2004

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Carol Annett

President & CEO of VHA, 2002-2021