The Department of the Secretary of State Series consists of documents related to Helen Webster's activities as an employee of the Department of the Secretary of State. It contains a list of the activities in which she was involved. The files are related to her activities including Cultural Federal Agencies meetings (1970, 1971, 1973), the visit of Albert Parisis, Minister of Culture in Belgium (1970), the Centennial of Manitoba (1970), the CCA Forum in Toronto (1970), the Museums Consultation and the Publishers Consultation (1970, 1971), the visit of the American Friends of Canada (1971), the Linguistic & Cultural Diversity Symposium, UNESCO (1972), the meeting of the Canadian Music Council (1973), a reception at the International Congress of the Comparative Literary Association (1973), a dinner for the Canadian Writers Union (1973), the Provincial lieutenant-governors meeting (1973), the Conference of the Commonwealth at Mont-Tremblant (1973), the International Writers Guild Dinner (1975), the International Association of Music Libraries Lunch (1975), the Centennial of the Supreme Court of Canada, the Opening of Mirabel airport (1975), a reception at the Festival international de poésie (1975), the visit of Prince Charles (1975), the visit of René Haby, Minister of Culture of France (1975), the visit of the Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting of India (1976), the visit of Queen Elizabeth II to the Olympic Games (1976), the Proclamation of the Citizenship Act (1977), the visit of the Queen for the Jubilee (1977), the visit of Prince Charles (1977), the Canadian Film Festival in Moscow (1976-1979), the Commonwealth Youth Affairs Conference (1978), the Citizenship Court Ceremony (1978), the farewell dinner in honour of George Ignatieff (1978), the visit of Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philipp and Prince Andrew to the Commonwealth Games in Edmonton (1978), departure of Jules Léger from Rideau Hall (1979), the installation of Edward Shreyer as Governor General (1979), the 25th Anniversary of the North Atlantic Assembly (1979), the Performance Gala of the National Archives of Canada (1979), the visit of the Queen mother (1979), the visit of Princess Anne (1979), the visit of Prince Charles (1979), the Provincial lieutenent-governors meeting (1980), the visit of Princess Alexandra and Princess Margaret, (1980) and the Ottawa Summit (1981). This series contains official programmes, meeting notes, notes, reference material, correspondence and memoranda.
