These files pertain to meetings which the Council, its representatives and member agencies sponsored or otherwise attended, or, in a few cases, simply considered of sufficient importance to retain a record thereof. Their venue was normally Montreal i if they transpired elsewhere the location and/or auspices is generally indicated in the file title. With surviving records beginning with a 1946 Community Planning Institute (file 877) and ending in a 1973 Notre Dame de Grace Conference on the Quality of Life (file 1041), such gatherings ranged from the comparatively structured format of the annual meeting of the Canadian Welfare Council devoted to the general review of activities, to the more informal regime but focused concerns of seminars, workshops and institutes. Geographically, their settings varied from BaieComeau in the east to Vancouver in the west, and from large metropolitan centres to the Laurentian rusticity of Ste. Adele and L'Esterel. Particularly heavily represented here are Community Funds and Councils of Canada meetings and management staff training seminars, 1968-1971. Important to the development and maintenance of personal contacts in the social welfare field as well as the exchange and up-dating of information, this series features proceedings, reports, briefs and correspondence.