Fonds PR1384 - 100th Avenue War Service Group fonds

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100th Avenue War Service Group fonds

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    PR1384

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    • 1940-1945 (Creation)

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    0.01 m of records. – 1 photograph

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    (1940-1945)

    Administrative history

    The 100th Avenue War Service Group was formed by a group of women in Edmonton, Alberta in 1940. The purpose of the group was to raise funds and make clothing and quilts for the Red Cross Society, which distributed the items to soldiers and to civilians in England and the occupied countries in Europe during World War II.

    The group executive was comprised of an honorary president, president, vice president, treasurer, secretary, convenor of the Works Committee, assistant to the convenor of the Works Committee, convenor of the Red Cross Works Committee, assistant to the convenor of the Red Cross Works Committee, and convenor of the Ways and Means Committee. The first executive members were G.I. Poole, D. Radford. W.J. Hale, R.P. Malone, A. Mclean, N.T. Miller, A.C. Emery, J.A. MacArthur, R.A. Munro, and W.B. Pitfield.

    It is not known when the group was officially disbanded, but it became inactive after 1945.

    Custodial history

    Mr. John E. Poole, a director of The Ernest E. Poole Foundation, deposited accession PR1976.0188 in the Human History Division of the Provincial Museum of Alberta in 1976. Mr. Poole’s mother, Gertrude Inez Poole, was secretary of the 100th Avenue War Service Group from 1944-1945.

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    Fonds consists of minutes and a photograph depicting various items of clothing made in the sewing room of the club, located in the home of Ernest E. and Gertrude Poole.

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    The Provincial Museum of Alberta transferred the records to the Provincial Archives of Alberta in 1977/

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    Arrangement note: The records of the 100th Avenue War Service Club were mixed in with the records of The Ernest E. Poole Foundation when received by the Provincial Archives of Alberta and so those records not obviously attributable to the 100th Avenue War Service Club have been included in The Ernest E. Poole Foundation club.

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        The material is in English.

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        Access Conditions: None

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        Use Conditions: Permission for use required. Subject to the Copyright Act.

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        Further accruals are not expected.

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        A reference print of a photograph from this fonds can be found in A File under location number A.4651. These records were deposited at the same time and in the same accession as records belonging to The Ernest E. Poole Foundation fonds.

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        Includes accession PR1976.0188.

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