Fonds MG2079 - Montreal Parks and Playgrounds Association/Community Garden League of Greater Montreal Fonds

Recreational Survey of The City of Montreal Annual Report (Abstract) Announcement of Establishment of Model Playground in Point St. Charles Playground Lease With City of Montreal Annual Report Annual Meeting Community Garden League Victory Gardens: Correspondence, Budgets, Notices Community Garden League: Montreal Star Victory Gardens Competition - Correspondence, Announcement... Frank Dawson Adams, The Day Shelter for Unemployed Men, Montreal: a Social Experiment

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Montreal Parks and Playgrounds Association/Community Garden League of Greater Montreal Fonds

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CA MUA MG2079

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  • 1933-1959 (Creation)
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    Community Garden League of Greater Montreal
  • 1902-1972 (Creation)
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    Montréal Parks and Playground Association Inc.

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5 m of textual records and photographs

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(1902-1961)

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The Montreal Parks and Playgrounds Association was founded in 1902 and incorporated in 1904 to preserve and promote parks, playgrounds and open spaces. In later years the Association was a Red Feather Service Unit within the Welfare Federation and the Montreal Council of Social Agencies. In cooperation with the latter, the Association launched the Community Garden League of Greater Montreal to provide garden plots to unemployed heads of families. From 1937 until its dissolution in 1961, the business of the Community Garden League was conducted through the Parks and Playgrounds Association.

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In cooperation with the Montreal Council of Social Agencies, the Parks and Playgrounds Association launched the Community Garden League of Greater Montreal to provide garden plots to unemployed heads of families. From 1937 until its dissolution in 1961, the business of the Community Garden League was conducted through the Parks and Playgrounds Association.

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These papers comprise office files for the Parks and Playgrounds Association from 1902 to 1972, and for the Community Garden League from 1933 to 1959. The records of the Parks and Playgrounds Association include administrative and financial records, scrapbooks, photographs, public relations material and information files. Administrative records consist of general and committee minutes, 1902-1972, annual reports, 1902-1964, personnel files, 1937-1947, files of correspondence and memoranda on individual sites as well as themes, e.g. water pollution, 1906-1972; and various surveys and studies, 1912-1967. Financial operations are documented by budgets, 1960-1971, financial statements, 1948-1967; ledger sheets, 1951-1961; and invoices, 1939-1957, 1967. Scrapbooks of newsclippings cover the periods 1902-1904, 1916-1932, 1935-1937, 1939, and 1949-1964; some scrapbooks are thematic, e.g. one on the Mount Royal tram line. Over 1,000 photographs taken ca 1906-ca 1960 show parks, playgrounds, landmarks, street scenes, recreation activities, and the work of the Association. Public relations files, 1937-1952, 1955-1962, contain press releases, briefs, petitions, legislative bills, and correspondence related to lobbying and public awareness. Information files contain largely printed material on parks and recreation in Canada and the United States, 1935-1968. Administrative records of the Community Garden League include minutes of its general committee, 1934-1952; annual reports, 1933-1959; correspondence and information files (1938-1949), and notices, 1938-1953, 1959.

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