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Tweedsmuir History

This volume contains information about branch activities, family histories, pioneer stories, local personalities and more. It is illustrated with many photographs and newspaper clippings. Also included are meeting programmes for the years 1929-1930, 1930-1931, 1976-1977, 1977-1978 and 1978-1979.
In the Tweedsmuir History book, the following was written:
"For the purpose of writing up the history of our community for this Tweedsmuir book, we have limited the territory to that bordered on the south by the Iona Institute district, on the east by the Kensington Club territory, on the north by the Cowal District terrain, and on the west following the school district boundary".

T-shirts and buttons

Series consists of t-shirts and buttons accumulated by Marilou McPhedran and pertaining to her activities, associations and interests, particularly women's rights. Included in this series are t-shirts produced by the Women's Legal Education Action Fund (LEAF), Healthy City Toronto, and the National Action Committee on the Status of Women. The buttons in this series are personal, made using family photographs, and protest/organizational buttons.

Subject files

Series consists of records created and accumulated by Marilou McPhedran over a 30-year period. These records reflect the scope of McPhedran's political, professional and research interests and activities. Subjects covered in this series include constitutional reform, women's health (national and international), feminism, family violence, sexual abuse, and workplace discrimination/harassment. Also documented in this series is McPhedran's participation in conferences, political campaigns and committee work. Records pertaining to some of McPhedran's contractual employment, speeches delivered and articles written are also part of this series. Files in this series include notes, conference materials, brochures and pamphlets, journal articles, correspondence, newspaper clippings, memoranda, reports, electronic documents, and photographs.

Scrapbooks

This series consists of two scrapbooks, 1958-1979 and 1982-1990, which contain newspaper clippings and photographs relating to people and events in Iona Station and surrounding area.

Programmes

This series consists of meeting programmes for the following years:
-1929-1930- in the Tweedsmuir History book
-1930-1931- in the Tweedsmuir History book
-1949-1950- R7 S5 Sh6 B3 F5
-1954-1955- R7 S5 Sh6 B3 F5
-1976-1977- in the Tweedsmuir History book
-1977-1978- in the Tweedsmuir History book
-1978-1979- in the Tweedsmuir History book

Posters and certificates

Series consists of posters and certificates accumulated by Marilou McPhedran from the mid-1980s to the mid-2000s. These items pertain to events in which she participated or events held by organizations with which she was involved, including LEAF, the International Women's Rights Project, and the Task Force on the Sexual Abuse of Patients, as well as items related to McPhedran's interests, such as international women's rights. Also included in this series are McPhedran's 1985 Order of Canada certificate and her 2004 Master of Laws diploma.

National Network on Environments and Women's Health files

Series consists of records created and accumulated by Marilou McPhedran while executive coordinator of York University's National Network on Environments and Women's Health (NNEWH) from 2001 to 2003. The records in this series document McPhedran's participation in a number of NNEWH's initiatives, particularly the preparation of a report titled "Rural and remote women's health : research and policy directions" and the organization of conferences, focus groups and research pertaining to that project. Also included in this series are records pertaining to McPhedran's administrative work for NNEWH and her management of work plans, budgets, and personnel. Some of these records relate to McPhedran's departure from NNEWH in 2003. Files in this series include reports, pamphlets, journal articles, correspondence, financial statements, memoranda, minutes, work plans, agendas, newspaper clippings, conference materials, and presentation slides (paper version).

Minutes

Series consists of nine bound volumes containing minutes of regular, executive and annual meetings of the Iona Station Women’s Institute. The minutes provide detailed information about the administration of the Institute as well as miscellaneous information concerning the history of the district of Iona and surrounding areas. Minute books also include lists of meetings held, lists of officers and members, annual financial statements, and records of receipts and expenditures.
Includes the following Minute Books:
October 18, 1928-April 16, 1931
June 16, 1938-April 16, 1942
May 21, 1942-March 20, 1947
April 18, 1947-April 17, 1952
May 15, 1952-April 24, 1958
May 20, 1965-March 18, 1971
April 22, 1971-March 19, 1976
April 15, 1976-March 20, 1981
April 16, 1981-May 17, 1990

Metropolitan Committee on Violence against Women and Children (METRAC) files

Series consists of records created and accumulated by Marilou McPhedran relating to METRAC, its mandate and its activities. Records in this series document a number of METRAC's projects in the 1990s, including its involvement with the May-Iles inquest and other legal cases, public safety audits for the Royal Bank and the Toronto Transit Commission, an Ontario Women's Justice Network project, and the production of METRAC publications on stalking and domestic violence. Also included in this series are McPhedran's subject files regarding violence against women and children, METRAC administrative files, and files pertaining to meetings of METRAC's board of directors, on which McPhedran served as a member and/or chair during this period. Files in this series consist of correspondence, minutes, budgets, reports, agendas, financial statements, legal documents, memoranda, newspaper and magazine articles, journal articles, handbooks and pamphlets, notes, mission statements, and work plans.

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