Fonds MG645 - Quinte Women's Institute records

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Reference code

CA ON00156 MG645

Title

Quinte Women's Institute records

Date(s)

  • 1907-1992 (Creation)

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Fonds

Extent and medium

5 boxes of textual records

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Administrative history

Quinte Women's Institute was organized on August 7, 1907 at Cleize schoolhouse on Highway 2 east of Pt. Anne Lane. Meetings were held on the second Tuesday of each month in the home of one of its members. The institute was disbanded in 1994.

Archival history

These items were donated by Bernice Parrott to Belleville Public Library, which transferred the minute books to the Archives in July 2006. The Tweedsmuir was transferred at a later date.

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Scope and content

Fonds consists of 17 minute books of the Quinte Women's Institute and the group's Tweedsmuir history, which includes postcards, press clippings and photographs. Also included is a banner for the institute, history of the institute and files of loose papers for each minute book (letters, receipts, newspaper articles, reports, programmes and newsletters).

Minute books cover the following dates:
May 1914 - April 1919
May 1929 - April 1936
May 1939 - April 1942
May 1942 - April 1947
May 1947 - April 1959
April 1950 - April 1953
April 1953 - April 1957
April 1957 - April 1961
April 1961 - March 1965
April 1965 - March 1968
April 1968 - March 1971
April 1971 - March 1974
April 1974 - March 1977
April 1977 - March 1980
April 1980 - March 1984
April 1984 - March 1989
April 1989 - March 1992

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Accession number

2006-03

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Description identifier

quinte-womens-institute-fonds

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Entered by Nicholas VanExan, June 23, 2015.

Language(s)

  • English

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