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Mabel Geldard-Brown fonds [textual record, sound recording, object]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1916-1989.

Reference:

R2679-0-8-E, MG30-E497

Type of material:

Textual material, Sound recordings, Objects (including medals and pins)

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

107009

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Mabel Geldard-Brown fonds
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Fonds includes:

14 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1916-1989.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

56 cm of textual records.
1 audio disc (14 min).
1 badge.

Language of material:

English

Added language of material:

English, Greek, Modern (1453- )

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Mabel Geldard-Brown collection [graphic material]

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Fonds consists of correspondence, memoranda, reports, diaries, minutes, articles, speeches, clippings, printed matter, notes, memorabilia, travel documents, lists and statistical information, and other documentation on Mabel Geldard-Brown's career with the International Migration Service, the YWCA of Canada, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, the Canada Department of Labour's projects to promote immigration of domestics, and other aspects of her career as a social worker specializing in international relief and migration, n.d., 1916-1989.

The fonds contains a sound recording of a speech given by Mabel Geldard-Brown for the Canadian Relief to Greece Appeal, 1947.

The fonds also contains a Royal Life Saving Society badge, 1929.

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Geldard-Brown, Mabel, 1890-

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Geldard-Brown, Mabel, 1890- : A native of Scotland, Mabel Geldard-Brown has had a diverse career as a social worker specializing in international relief and migration. During 1917-1919 she was an administrator for the Macedonian Unit of the Scottish Women's Hospitals (in Greece). Geldard-Brown worked as assistant and organizing secretary for the SHS Child Welfare Association in Serbia (1919-1921), and then became a representative of the British Committee for Relief (Poland, 1922-1923), an organization concerned with the welfare of children in orphanages and internment camps. During 1925-1928, and again briefly in 1944, she was employed by the International Migration Service, an organization set up by the World's YWCA in response to the social problems arising from increased international migration after World War I.

She served as both field secretary at the head office in Geneva, and as director of the Greek branch.

The Canadian phase of Geldard-Brown's career began in 1928, when she became port secretary for the Young Women's Christian Association of Canada in St John and Quebec. Her work consisted of meeting immigrants and helping them through their first days in Canada. From 1929 to 1932 she continued her YWCA work as executive secretary of the Social Service and International Departments in Toronto, where she initiated the YWCA's International Girls' Club.

During 1932-1935 Geldard-Brown worked at the Iverley Settlement in Montreal, a recreational, educational and social club that was part of Montreal's social service network. Geldard-Brown was then employed by the Family Welfare Association in Montreal (1935-1942), but was loaned to the Directional Service for the Families of Enlisted Men in 1940. She moved to the Department of National Defence's Dependents' Board of Trustees in 1942 when it took over the work of the Directional Service.

In 1944 she left the DBT and became a Displaced Persons Specialist with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in Egypt, Greece, and Italy, staying until 1946.

After a brief stint with the Canadian Relief to Greece Appeal (1947), Geldard-Brown was engaged by the Canada Department of Labour as a Displaced Persons Specialist and later to work on a scheme to assist the immigration of British women to Canada as domestic servants. After her retirement in 1953, she operated a small business retailing Scottish sweaters in Knowlton, Quebec.

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Sound recording: (Electronic) See MISACS for item level description.

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General note:

Received in 1987, 1989, and 1990 from Mabel Geldard-Brown, Sutton, Quebec.
Subject heading:

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Social workers, [1916-1989] Social Welfare Association (Brome County, Qubec), 1960

Women social workers, [1916-1989] Assisted Passage Scheme for Domestics (Canada), [1949-1955]

Social work with immigrants - Canada, n.d., 1928-1932 Displaced Persons Domestics Project (Canada), [1949-1955]

Social work with children, 1920-1921 Canada. Dept. of Labour, n.d., 1949-1955

Boys' schools, 1922-1923 Canadian Relief to Greece Appeal, n.d., 1945-1948

Montreal (Quebec) - Social work, 1934-1942 United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, n.d., 1944-1949

Greece - History - Civil War, 1944-1949, [1944-1945] Directional Service for the Families of Enlisted Men/Dependents. Board of Trustees, 1941-1948

Public relations - Social service, 1942 Iverly Settlement (Montreal, Quebec), 1929-1935

Knowlton (Quebec) - Business enterprises, [1919-1968] Family Welfare Association (Montreal, Quebec), 1934-1942

Canadian Association of Social Workers, [1929-1935]

Young Women's Christian Association. International Departments, [1928-1932]

Young Women's Christian Association. Social Service, [1928-1932]

Young Women's Christian Association. City Service, [1928-1932]

Young Women's Christian Association. International Club, [1928-1932]

Young Women's Christian Association. Foreign Born Committee, [1928-1932]

International Migration Service. Greek Branch, n.d., 1926-1948

British Committee for Relief (Poland), n.d., 1922-1923]

Scottish Women's Hospitals. Macedonian Unit, n.d., 1916-1918

SHS Child Welfare Association (Serbia), 1920-1921
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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117-020004-4
117-020005-2
1327 (1989-08-21)
1989-0455 MISA
1989/0239 MSS
1990-595 DAP
90-189

Former archival reference no.:

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MG30-E497
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Textual records

[Consultation18 Restricted]

Sound recordings

[Consultation90 Open]

Object

[Consultation90 Open]

Medals 14207

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Sound recording: Reproduction and use in any form requires the written permission of the copyright owner.
Badge: No restrictions. Copyright expired. Credit: National Archives of Canada.

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