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Its founder, Alphonse Desjardins, was a French stenographer in the federal House of Commons in Ottawa. To facilitate the exchange of savings and to help local credit unions become more efficient, credit union leaders in all the English-speaking provinces organized provincial centrals (called co-operative credit societies or credit union leagues).
The Civil Service Savings and Loan Society launched in 1908 with the assistance of Alphonse Desjardins.It was the first credit union in Canada outside Quebec. Federal civil servants were prompted by an article in their magazine The Civilian, when it reported on loan sharks charging civil servants up to 200% for payday loans. [5]
The Canada Employment and Immigration Union (CEIU) is a Canadian labour union, with over 30,000 members from across every Canadian Province and Territory. CEIU is affiliated with the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC), and all CEIU members are automatically members of the PSAC. As affiliated, the PSAC is the bargaining agent for CEIU and ...
This is an alphabetical list of companies that have at one-point or another been based in Ottawa: Abacus Data; Alterna Savings; Atkinson Film-Arts; Bank of Ottawa; Bell-Northern Research; BreconRidge; Bridgewater Systems; Brookstreet Pictures; Bruised Tongue; Campeau Corporation; Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation; Canada Mortgage and Housing ...
Shared Services Canada (SSC; French: Services partagés Canada (SPC)) is an agency of the Government of Canada responsible for advancing, consolidating and providing information technology services across federal government departments. It was established in 2011 to combine digital services such as data storage that were previously duplicated ...
Credit unions are called caisses populaires in French-speaking communities of Canada. This one is located in Shediac, New Brunswick. Canada has significant per-capita membership in credit unions, representing more than a third of the working-age population. [1]
The Public Service Alliance of Canada Building is a modernist elliptical office building in Ottawa, Ontario, constructed in 1968 as the national headquarters for the Public Service Alliance of Canada. Designed by Paul Schoeler of Schoeler & Heaton Architects, the 12-storey building is located at the intersection of Gilmour and Metcalfe. [3]
The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC; French: Alliance de la Fonction publique du Canada, AFPC) is one of Canada's largest national labour unions. It is the largest union in the Canadian federal public sector. PSAC members work in every province and territory, and also work abroad in embassies and consulates.