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Family Welfare Association Fonds
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Fonds
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CA MUA MG4172
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0.3 m of textual records
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The Family Welfare Association was originally a member of the much larger Montreal Charity Organisation Society. The latter had been an attempt to coordinate the various charitable activities that existed in Montreal during the 19th century. It was felt, that there was too much overlap, both in the type of service provided to the largely Anglophone Protestant Community and in the sources of funds and volunteers. By 1919, a new organisation, the Montreal Council of Social Agencies, had been formed. The Montreal Charity Organisation Society ceased to exist, but one member retained its independence and changed its name to the Family Welfare Association. It continued to devote its energies to family service for many more decades until all social services were amalgamated into government agencies.
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The fonds reflects the body’s social work activities including logs of case studies (1901-1932), correspondence with government agencies regarding deportation orders, especially between 1901 and 1932, as well as correspondence with the Red Cross Emergency Relief Committee concerning survivors of the Titanic disaster (1913-1916) and newspaper clippings about the disaster (1980). There are copies of Family Welfare Bulletins (1942-1945), reports about professional ethics for social workers (1937) and a description of the Belvedere Residence (1946-1953).
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Transferred from McCord Museum on November 11, 1992
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Hand-written and typescript