This fonds consists of the Loyalist District (no.2) Women's Institute Record Books, which contain Minutes, 1927-1966, financial records, membership records and agendas for annual conventions, 1951, 1952, 1954, 1960, 1988.
Women's Institute. Loyalist District (No.2) Women's Institute
The collection contains the records of the Richmond Women's Institute during the 1920s and early 1930s. The volunteer work of the Institute reflected the needs of the time. Members of the WI assisted in diptheria clinics and provided for the needy immigrants during the Depression. Money was raised by producing plays and catering meals. Social times included picnics and Halloween parties.
Women's Institute. Richmond Women's Institute (Carleton County)
This collection contains a pair of clippings of newspaper articles published in the Daily Gleaner related to the history of New Brunswick. The first article provides an overview of the story of Marie LaTour, while the second article discusses the history of British Home Children in Canada.
File of miscellaneous documents includes: assignment of lease, Jessie Keltie to Rhonda Barnhill, Margaret Baisley, and Phoebe T. Dunham, 1879; tax levy, Daniel Ramsay, 1881; lease, Count DeBury to Union Hall, 1889; insurance policies, stock receipts, and financial statement, 1928
Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). North End (Portland) Branch
This fonds consists of photocopies of the original minute book of the Grand Harbour Branch, New Brunswick Women's Institute. The group began by discussing recipes and moved on to sidewalks, street lights, park improvements, cemetery improvements, a public hall, and a public library. Park improvements, cemeteries, schools, knitting, and quilting committees were soon organized and members reported on those activities at each meeting. These projects were set aside as the war began and reports on war efforts in support of soldiers began. The group met in the Newton's Store in Grand Harbour. There is a reference in the minutes of 1914 that a branch of the organization was also functioning at Seal Cove.
New Brunswick Women's Institute, Grand Manan Branch
This fonds consists of the administrative records of the Ladies Auxiliary Command to the New Brunswick Command the Royal Canadian Legion. It contain minutes of meetings (1928-1939, 1951-1970), copies of the constitution and by-laws (1928-1979), and a printed copy of a brief history of the Ladies Auxiliary Command by Vesta R. Morell (1979). The history has been moved to MC80/62.
It also contains the Applications for Membership, 1925-2000, organized by Branch.
Royal Canadian Legion. New Brunswick Command. Ladies Auxiliary Command
A series of documents from the Clifton Branch of the New Brunswick Women's Institute, which was founded on October 17, 1912. Registers demonstrate that between twenty and twenty-five women tended to be active members per year.