Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1907-2000 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
2 m of textual records. -- 153 photographs
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
The Young Women's Christian Association of Calgary, Alberta was formed in 1907 by a group of prominent local women who were concerned about the lack of suitable and reasonable accommodation for single young women entering the city. The women, who included Mrs. John McDougall, Mrs. George Kerby, Mrs. G.S. Jamieson and the association's first president, Mrs. Thomas Underwood, immediately started fund raising, and in 1908 opened the first YWCA residence in the city. In addition to providing reasonable accommodation for women, the YWCA has been involved in many other projects over the years including summer camps, cooperative housing for unwed mothers, physical education for women, traveller's aid, female unemployment and cooperative work with other local social service agencies. The YWCA hosts an annual women's awards banquet.
For further information see Creating Cornerstones : A History of the YWCA of Calgary / Antonella Fanella and Pernille Jakobsen. -- Calgary : YWCA of Calgary, 2011.
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Gift of Young Women's Christian Association, 1979-2007.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
The fonds consists of board and committee minutes, financial statements, correspondence, reports, scrapbooks, and photographs of members and events. Includes nominations files for the YWCA Women of Distinction Awards, and programs and guest books for the Women Celebrate Women dinner which commemorated the Persons Case.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
No restrictions on access.
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
The material is in English.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Other YWCA records, related to Women of Distinction awards, are held by Special Collections at the University of Calgary Library.
See also the Irma and Frances Wright fonds at the Glenbow.
Notes area
Note
Title based on contents of records.
Note
M-9250 has been amalgamated with M-7768.
Alternative identifier(s)
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Calgary Youth Aid Centre Society (Subject)
- Comba, Stanley Harold (Subject)
- Lowry, Ruth (Subject)
- Shaw, Florence Alberta (Subject)
- Sparks, Mary Gay (Subject)
- Unemployed Girls' Club of Calgary (Subject)
- Wellwood, Leone (Subject)