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Part Of
Island Women's Club fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Accession Number
2009.001
Date Range
1923
Scope and Content
File consists of Incoming correspondence. It also includes a hand-written report by the Public Health Nurse about school visits and material on potato-growing and a poultry-raising competition.
Part Of
Island Women's Club fonds
Description Level
File
Creator
Whaletown Women's Institute
Fonds Number
2009.001.1
Sous Fonds Number
1
Series Number
5
File Number
2
Accession Number
2009.001
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1923
Scope and Content
File consists of Incoming correspondence. It also includes a hand-written report by the Public Health Nurse about school visits and material on potato-growing and a poultry-raising competition.
Storage Location
1-22
Storage Range
1-22
Subject Access
Women's Institute
Health care
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Part Of
Island Women's Club fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual records
Accession Number
2009.001
Date Range
1926
Scope and Content
File consists of incoming correspondence; it also includes a Public Health Nurse bulletin.
Part Of
Island Women's Club fonds
Description Level
File
Creator
Whaletown Women's Institute
Fonds Number
2009.001.1
Sous Fonds Number
1
Series Number
5
File Number
5
Accession Number
2009.001
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1926
Scope and Content
File consists of incoming correspondence; it also includes a Public Health Nurse bulletin.
Storage Location
1-25
Storage Range
1-25
Subject Access
Women's Institute
Health care
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Whaletown Women's Institute

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Part Of
Island Women's Club fonds
Description Level
Sous-fonds
Material Type
textual records
Accession Number
2009.001
Date Range
1920-1962
Scope and Content
Sous-fonds consists of records created by the Whaletown Women's Institute. It is arranged in seven series: Minutes Series, Financial Series, Administrative Records Series, Reports Series, Correspondence Series, Projects Series and Ephemera Series.
Part Of
Island Women's Club fonds
Description Level
Sous-fonds
Creator
Whaletown Women's Institute
Fonds Number
2009.001.1
Sous Fonds Number
2009.001.2
Accession Number
2009.001
Material Type
textual records
Date Range
1920-1962
Physical Description
23 cm of textual records
Extent
.23 meters
History / Biographical
The Whaletown Women's Institute was formed in 1920 as the Friendship Circle, became a branch of the Women's Institute in 1923, and disbanded in 1963. During its years of activity, the WWI actively worked for local improvement. Projects included initiating a library service, donating books to the school, arranging for regular visits of a doctor and dentist, hosting an annual Christmas party and providing gifts for all the Whaletown children, maintaining the cemetery, fund-raising for a school playground, financing firefighting equipment and installing an emergency telephone network.
Custodial History
Records were donated to CIMAS by the Island Women's Club in 2009.
Scope and Content
Sous-fonds consists of records created by the Whaletown Women's Institute. It is arranged in seven series: Minutes Series, Financial Series, Administrative Records Series, Reports Series, Correspondence Series, Projects Series and Ephemera Series.
Storage Range
1-1 to 1-44
Name Access
Whaletown Women's Institute
Subject Access
Women's Institute
Health care
Community Associations
Geographic Access
Cortes Island
Related Material
Whaletown Women's Institute fonds (1999.002), Gilean Douglas fonds (1999.001)
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