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LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Fonds
No.: PR0480
TITLE: Social Security League of Canada, Edmonton Branch fonds
CREATOR: Social Security League of Canada, Edmonton Branch
DATE RANGE: 1945-1946
EXTENT: 0.05 m of textual records
ADMINISTRATIVE
HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: The Social Security League of Canada, Edmonton Branch was organized on October 15, 1945 with the purpose of organizing citizens interested in an earlier and increased retirement allowance. They demanded that the federal government pay a retirement pension of $60 a month to all Canadian men at the age of 60 and to Canadian women at the age of 55, regardless of property or income.
CUSTODIAL HISTORY:The records of the Social Security League of Canada, Edmonton Branch were donated to the Provincial Archives of Alberta as part of a larger group of records belonging to Edith Rogers, who had been president of the Social Security League of Canada, Edmonton Branch. Keith Chisholm, on behalf of Kathleen Redmond, Edith Rogers’ cousin, deposited the records in the Provincial Archives of Alberta in 1986.
SCOPE AND CONTENT: The fonds consists of the records of the Edmonton Branch Social Security League of Canada and includes correspondence, minutes, member lists, reports and receipts.
GENERAL NOTE: Information for the administrative history is taken from the records. This fonds was donated at the same time, and in the same accession as the following fonds: the Edith and William Rogers fonds (PR1477), the Alberta Federation of Property Owners’ Associations fonds (PR0473), the Ponoka Social Credit Group fonds (PR0474), the Warner Women's Institute Girls Club fonds (PR0475), the Ponoka Woollen Mills, Limited fonds (PR0476), the Home Protective Association fonds (PR0477), the Property Owners’ Association of Edmonton fonds (PR0478), and the Ponoka Social Credit Auxiliary Group fonds (PR0479).
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