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Women's Bureau [textual record, moving images]

Hierarchical level:

Series

Date:

1948-1992.

Reference:

R224-95-8-E, RG27-J-1

Type of material:

Textual material, Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

134382

Context of this record:

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Department of Labour fonds

Women's Bureau
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

1948-1992.

Bilingual equivalent:

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

21.0 m of textual records
28.3 m of unprocessed textual records.
1 videocassette (1 h)

Language of material:

English
Accession:

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Women's Bureau Records [textual record]

Labour Canada, Women's Bureau Records [textual record]

CANADA. DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR / MINISTERE DU TRAVAIL: WOMEN'S BUREAU [moving images]
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Series consists of central registry files created and/or maintained by the Women's Bureau. The files contain correspondence, reports, research and memoranda pertaining to specific aspects of the work of the Bureau including Report of the Departmental Committee on Equal Pay, 1955, the Equal Pay Committee of 1968-1969 and surveys on maternity leave, (1958-1969, and day-care, 1966-1969). A major portion of these records relate to work done by the Bureau which brought it into contact with a number of public and private agencies and individuals in Canada and abroad. Also included are reports of consultations, meetings, etc. on the role of the Bureau itself held in 1960, 1962 and 1965-1966. Two files on Personnel, Establishment and Organizations contain material pertaining to the creation of the Bureau and the appointment of Marion V. Royce, Principal of Moulton College, Toronto, as first Director in 1954 along with Bureau progress reports, 1954-1962. These central registry files also deal with the Bureau's participation in a number of important committees and conferences including the Inter-departmental Committee on the Status of Women, 1971-1972, International Women's Year, 1974-1975, the Maternity Leave Working Committee, 1969-1975 and the International Labour Organization and the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, 1968-1972.

There is also a documentary about women journalists in television and how they are treated in this profession.

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Canada. Women's Bureau

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Canada. Women's Bureau : Womens' organizations in Canada had for sometime been interested in seeing the federal government pay more specific attention to the problems of women in the workforce. During the Second World War in particular, women had entered the workforce in unprecedented numbers and had worked successfully in occupations such as mining and steel making where women had not been employed before. During the war the federal government had also become involved on a temporary basis but for the first time in directly fostering the creation of daycare facilities for the use of working parents and their children. The Women's Bureau of the Department of Labour is believed to be the first unit of the federal government ever created in peacetime devoted exclusively to the interests of women. It was set up in September 1954 "to promote a wider understanding of problems peculiar to women workers and the employment of women, so as to advance the opportunities of women in employment and to enable them to make a more effective contribution to the development of Canada." (Marion V. Royce, First Director of the Bureau, CBC Broadcast, 1954). RG27 General Inventory

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(Electronic) Finding aid 27-32 is a typed and handwritten file list relating to vols. 1903-1909 & 4150-4206. 27-32 PDF (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf002/27-32_134382_vols_1903-1909_4150-4206_open.pdf

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Source of title:

Title is based on the contents of the series.

Accruals:

No further accruals are expected.

Source:

Government

Related control no.:

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(1985-10-22)
121-000546-8
1984-85/210 GAD
1985-0445 MISA
1993-94/547 GAD
1997-01046-1
1997-98/047 GAD
70/003
R224
RG27
RG27-J
RG27-J-1

Former archival reference no.:

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RG27-J-1

Other accession no.:

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1985-0445 MISA
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Textual records

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]

Volume [RG27]

[Consultation 90 Open]

1903--1909;

[Consultation 90 Open]

4151;

[Consultation 90 Open]

4171--4176;

[Consultation 90 Open]

4190--4206;

[Consultation 90 Open]

Volume [RG27]

[Consultation 32 Restricted by law]

4150;

[Consultation 32 Restricted by law]

4152--4170;

[Consultation 32 Restricted by law]

4177--4189;

[Consultation 32 Restricted by law]

Moving images (video)

[Consultation90 Open]

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