A resident of the North Vancouver care home who has died of COVID-19 is being remembered for her strength and smile. Sandra Cairns died at Lynn Valley Care Centre, where a cluster of coronavirus cases were some of the first reported in the province. “She was an amazing woman with a strong will and a quick wit,” wrote her daughter-in-law, Anita Coueffin-Cairns, in a tribute on social media on Friday.
Cairns was a registered nurse and a civilian police officer in Vancouver, her daughter-in-law wrote. She spent 25 years at the police station near Main and Hastings streets, working as a guard and a nurse to women who were incarcerated. “It must have taken a very strong will to do the kind of job that she had to do,” Coueffin-Cairns wrote.