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Relief Camp Workers' Union was a Canadian Great Depression era relief union in which the workers employed in the Canadian government relief camps organized themselves into in the early 1930s. The RCWU was established by the Workers' Unity League and was associated with the Communist Party of Canada . [ 1 ]
The Out of the Darkness Community and Overnight walks benefit the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) by raising awareness on suicide and depression, raising money for research and education to prevent suicide from taking place, and providing assistance and a safe outlet for survivors of suicide.
Strikers from unemployment relief camps climbing on boxcars in Kamloops, British Columbia. The On-to-Ottawa Trek was a mass protest movement in Canada in 1935 sparked by unrest among unemployed single men in federal relief camps principally in Western Canada. The trek started in Vancouver and, picking up reinforcements along the way, was ...
Camp Lac de l'Achigan was a Salvation Army camp in Quebec, Canada from 1933 to 2020. [23] Northern Arm was a Salvation Army camp in Newfoundland, Canada from 1960 to 1987. It was replaced by Twin Ponds Camp in 1988. Twin Ponds Camp was a camp next to the Trans-Canada Highway between Glenwood and Lewisporte in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. [24]
Prisoner-of-war camps in Canada (1 C, 3 P) W. World War II internment camps in Canada (19 P) Pages in category "Internment camps in Canada"
The YM-YWHA Country Camp was founded in 1962 with a capital fund campaign led by Joe Rubin, [3] with Saidye and Samuel Bronfman as "honorary patrons." [4] It began operating in June 1963, social worker Bernard Scotch serving as its first director. [5] [6] The camp hosted 545 children in its first year of operation, [7] and some 800 by 1965. [8]
Camp B'nai Brith moved to its current location in 1929. [6] All capital and operating costs were financed by Mount Royal Lodge until 1942, when Camp B'nai Brith became a constituent agency of the Combined Jewish Appeal. From 1954 to 1964, the camp grew to accommodate over 1000 campers, most of whom received scholarships to attend. [5]
The children's camp remained in operation as an overnight camp until 1962 and as a day camp until 1971. A family-oriented adult campground that was used mostly on weekends and holidays developed adjacent to the children's camp that, at its peak, contained some 90 cottages as well as room for tents.