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University of British Columbia Okanagan Campus Library Special Collections and Archives British Columbia Women's Institute fonds
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British Columbia Women's Institute fonds

  • CA OSC-ARC-08
  • Fonds
  • 1892-2018

Fonds consists of records created and received by the British Columbia Women’s Institute and its constituents and relate to the work done by members of the BCWI at the provincial level as well as its various local chapters. Records in this fonds consist predominantly of administrative records as well as the compiled research materials pertaining to the Women’s Institutes and notable figures within.

The fonds also includes documentation of the BCWI’s intersections with the FWIC and the ACWW. Fonds is arranged into five series: 1) Federated Women’s Institutes of Canada (FWIC); 2) Associated Countrywomen of the World (ACWW); 3) British Columbia Women’s Institutes (BCWI); 4) BCWI Districts; 5) Research files.

Associated Country Women of the World

Series consists of records pertaining to the BCWI’s intersections with the Associated Country Women of the World (ACWW), with which the BCWI was affiliated.. Records in this series include photographs, publications, and some ephemera created by the ACWW. Other records in this series relate to various conventions hosted by the ACWW and affiliates held worldwide, including but not limited to where the BCWI was represented.

Associated Country Women of the World

Watt, Mrs Alfred (Madge Robertson)

File contains photographs, handwritten notes, photocopied photographs, newspaper clippings and articles, biographies, a memorial speech, correspondence, excerpts from The First Women�s Institute School and ACWW History, speeches, a history of the ACWW, newspaper clippings, and a postcard.

[Elizabeth Bailey Price]

File contains summaries of different events, such as �Welcome from Mrs. Roosevelt� and �The Great International Rural Women�s Conference� written by Elizabeth Bailey Price.

Federated Women’s Institutes of Canada

Series consists of records pertaining to the BCWI’s intersections with the Federated Women’s Institutes of Canada (FWIC), into which the BCWI reported. Documents in this series include publications printed by the organization, documents detailing the history of the group, as well as records relating to conventions hosted by the FWIC, where the BCWI was represented.

Federated Women's Institutes of Canada

Federated W.I.

File contains newspaper clippings, pamphlets, brochures, correspondence, convention programs, by-laws, a press release, a songbook, brief histories and an address given at the 1982 FWIC convention, a brief history of the BCWI, a brief history of Japanese Canadians, and biographies for Japanese Canadian members of the BCWI.

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