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Moose Jaw Business and Professional Women’s Club fonds
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60.0 cm of textual records and photographs
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The Canadian Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs was granted a charter under the Dominion Companies Act of 1930. The six charter clubs were Winnipeg, Victoria, Vancouver, Montreal, Saskatoon and Calgary. The purposes and objectives of the charter were broad in scope, being to encourage the business and professional women of Canada to co-operate in promoting their mutual interests and extending their educational opportunities to issue a magazine or other publication, and to affiliate with organizations of similar purpose both in Canada and abroad. A provincial organization unites the efforts of the clubs in each province in promoting the Canadian Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs programmes and projects, and in focusing club interest and activity on provincial and municipal matters within its purposes and objectives.
The Moose Jaw Business and Professional Women’s Club was formed at an organizational meeting on September 16, 1947. The meeting was called to order by Mrs. Maudie Cawsey, national organizer of the council. The new club moved affiliation with the National and International Business and Professional Women’s Council. Over thirty women signed for membership. Margaret Nairn was elected president, Bernadine Monroe, first vice-president, Mrs. E. Drackett, second vice-president, Bertha Drewry, recording secretary; Marjory Bradley, corresponding secretary; Nancy Seed, treasurer.
The objectives of the Moose Jaw club are to improve the status of women in business, the professions, trades and industry, to discover and develop qualities in club members which enable them to take part in public life, to further social contacts among women, and to provide a non-partisan, non-sectarian basis for cooperation. Over the years, the Moose Jaw club has supported students at a training centre in Ramallah, Jordan, has provided awards to secretarial science students at STI (Saskatchewan Technical School), and supports UNICEF through the sale of UNICEF greeting and Christmas Cards.
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This fonds consists of four series. Included are membership lists, minutes of meetings from 1954 to 1961, correspondence and committee reports. There are minutes, reports and resolutions from provincial conferences and national conventions as well as international publications. There are seven scrapbooks and one album containing photos, newspaper clippings, correspondence and memorabilia of the Moose Jaw club from 1947 to 1987.
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The “scrapbooks” vary. Some are actual scrapbooks (newsprint), which are tattered along the edges. Others are albums and some are ruled notebooks. They contain photos, programmes, lists, memorabilia and several newspaper clippings, many loose.
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Material donated to MJPL Archives by Judith Hills in 1987.
Material donated to MJPL Archives by Dorothy Evans in 1995.
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Finding aid and file list available. See attached finding aid.
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No further accruals expected.
General note
Located in Artifact Box 1: Three Business and Professional Women’s Club pins and a Provincial Conference name tag
Conservation
This fonds was re-boxed and foldered in 2005.
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Boxes V-111 - V-114, H-62 - H-63