In 1984, the Federal government responded to pressure from women's organizations from coast to coast with a program to stimulate women's studies in universities throughout Canada. In the next few years the Secretary of State Endowment Assistance Program provided $500,000 of seed money to establish a Chair of Women's Studies in each of five regions of Canada.
The Chair for the Prairie Provinces and the NWT was awarded jointly to the University of Manitoba and the University of Winnipeg, on the basis of their unique proposal to combine academic excellence with community outreach.
The federal grant stipulated that matching funds should be raised as part of the contract signed in December 1986, by the two universities and the Secretary of State.
Early in 1989, the Laurence family agreed to associate their mother's name with the Prairie Chair of Women's Studies and in the spring, the Senates of the two universities, together with the Board of Regents of the University of Winnipeg and the Board of Governors of the University of Manitoba agreed to designate this chair "The Margaret Laurence Chair of Women's Studies."
Custodial History
The records have been in the possession of the administrative officers of the Margaret Laurence Endowment until their transfer to the S.J. McKee Archives.
Scope and Content
These records were generated by the Margaret Laurence Endowment as a product of meetings, correspondence, consideration of grant proposals, projects, conferences, and publications. Fonds includes minutes, financial records, grant applications, project descriptions, and newsletters.
Notes
Description by Jana Sheardown (2006).
Accruals
Further accruals expected.
Storage Location
2006 accessions
Storage Range
2006 accessions
Arrangement
Box One:
Files:
Financial Records:
Budget 97-98
Other accounting
Budget overview docs
U of M accounts
U of M finances 96-97
MLC finances U of W 93-96
U of W finances 96-97
U of W payment vouchers
U of M finances 94-95
MLC finances 95-96
MLC finances 93-94
Budget Info
U of W accounts
Budget info 99-2000
Budget info 98-99
Past budgets
98-99 budget
Student funding
Student support
Union Centre
MLAP Budget info
MLC Executive Minutes:
Feb 95
Mar 95
May 95
June 95
Oct 95
Jan 17, 96
Mar 18. 96
July 29, 96
Sept 4, 96
Feb 28, 97
Sept 12, 97
Dec 2, 97
Dec 10, 97
Mar 5, 98
Apr 8, 98
June 15, 98
Aug 14, 98
Oct 5, 98
MLEWS Minutes:
99-2000
A panel meeting June 9, 99
A panel meeting May 20, 99
Jan 27, 99
June 28, 98
Oct 29, 98
Oct 29, 98
Box Two:
MLC selection 96-97
Cate Harrington
ML Advisory panel members list
MLE fund proposal 99-2004
MLC history and background
MLC background and doc
MLC letters
Membership
ML Chair original proposal
WS proposals
Requests for funding
Feminist Research Centre
ML Chair 98
Files - Muriel Smith
MLC proposal
MLEWS correspondence
MLEWS community
MLEWS fin
MLEWS speakers series
Dec 1, proposals community
Student fund requests
Minutes contract
Emails of general interest
Emails
Speaker series
Call for grant applications
Oct 2000 grants
2000 successful grants
September 2000 grant applications
MLEWS membership
Lists MLEWS
Fax mailing lists
Speaker series, U Brandon college
Box Three:
Julia Emberley
96-97 U of M admin appt
UNPAC - Alice in Cyberland
PTAM / Choices UNPAC
Colleen Cutschall
Carmen Romero
Reproductive Rights - Carolyn Egan meetings 98
Kay Turner Mtgs
Stirring up a storm Conference
Conference Receipts
Final report to SWC
Stirring up a Storm - grant application
Feminist Activist conference
SUS finances ML chair
Conference Assistant
Stirring up a Storm Publicity
SWC grant Application
Grant to SWC
Conference finances
ASL - Arlene Young
Box 4:
Keith Fulton’s Women’s Studies Newsletters 1988, 1989
Backtalk:
Jan 94 (first issue), March 94, Sept 94, Dec 94
Feb 95, April 95, Sept 95, Dec 95
Feb 96, April 96, Autumn 96, Dec 96
Feb 97, April 97
Why Women’s Studies, Agnes Grant and Ingrid Makus. Proceedings of the WS Conference at Brandon University. March 8, 1987
Margaret Laurence Chair Guide to Women’s Studies, Susan Prentice, Sept 1994
Files
1.Chair (big file of materials used in the proposal for the Prairie Joint Chair in WS)
2.Women’s Organizations Consulted in the Development of the Proposal
3.Women’s chair (1986)
4.Women’s Chair: Letters re person’s day
5.Mail and Messages
6.Celebration 1990
7.Letters about the name: sent and acceptance from Margaret Laurence’s family
8.Women’s Studies steering committee (developed proposal for the Joint Chair in Women’s Studies)
9.Printout of donors for the endowment
10.Women’s Chair Budget and Bills
11.Women’s Studies Fund Raising
12.Women’s Studies Chair Proposal-Federal Government
13.Sept 94 Margaret Laurence Chair Advisory Panel
14.Feb 95
15.Media Skills Workshop Feb 97
16.April 97
17.Marilyn Waring sponsorship
18.Yvette Nolan sponsorship
19.Nathalie Davis sponsorship
20.ml Advisory Panel dated by month and year: 1994-96
21.MLC Appointments to Advisory Panel, 92, 96
Box 5:
1.June Menzies’ notes (up to 87)
2.Leaders, supporters
3.Lists of names for fund raising committee/person’s day
4.4 Folders for presentations: transparencies, flip chart notes
5.News sheets stuff for mlc update
6.Climate committee
7.Debate: chilly climate
8.Misc. info
The Brandon Assisted Passages Association was created in 1911, for the purpose of providing loans to "english speaking artisans" [sic] who wished to immigrate to Canada and work in Brandon, MB. In 1913, the Association was renamed the Brandon Imperial Home Reunion Association. The Association continued to operate and provided passage assistance in the form of loans to many immigrants until loan defaults mounted during World War I. After 1917, no further loans were given.
Custodial History
This fonds was accessioned in 1997. Its custodial history prior to this is unknown, but it was at one time in the posession of a H.R. Hoffman, and well as Richardson & Bishop Ltd. in Brandon.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of a minute book and a single page letter. The minute book is a record of every meeting of the B.A.P.A./B.I.H.R.A. and includes the names of the board members, the names of the applicants (in some cases their addresses), and the amounts loaned. In some instances, the fonds provides a documentary record of loan repayment.
The Canadian Union of Public Employees came into existence in September 1963, during a convention in Winnipeg when The National Union of Public Employees and the National Union of Public Service Employees merged. In 1964, the Manitoba Division of CUPE (now CUPE Manitoba) held its founding convention in The Pas. At that time, there were 12 affiliated local unions and a total membership of 1,300. The Canadian Union of Public Employees is Canada's largest union. Public service employees formed CUPE to protect their rights, to negotiate wages and working conditions, and to achieve dignity in the workplace.
Custodial History
Fonds was in the possesssion of the Brandon CUPE Office until its donation to the S.J. McKee Archives in 1995.
Scope and Content
Fonds contains general administrative files of the CUPE including agreements, newspaper clippings, correspondence, and convention records. In addition, fonds includes records for many CUPE locals in southwestern and north-central Manitoba. These includes files for each local containing agreements, lists of officials, correspondence and financial records. An extensive body of records dating from 1956 exists for CUPE local #69. This local began its existence as the Brandon Civic Employees Federal Union formed in April 1919.
