Identity area
Reference code
CA OTUTF MS COLL 00086
Title
Kate A. Foster Papers (Downsview Offsite)
Date(s)
- 1932-1956 (Creation)
Level of description
Manuscript Collection
Extent and medium
7 boxes
Context area
Name of creator
(1881-)
Biographical history
Kate Adele Foster was born in 1881. She worked with the YWCA her whole life, starting a "Hostess House" in Beamsville, Ont., for the Flying Corps in 1917, and later becoming president of the Y in Woodstock, Ont. After the First World War, she became interested in helping immigrant girls arriving in Canada. In 1933, after a second meeting of the Conference of Nationality was held in Toronto by the YWCA, the Council of Friendship was formed, with Foster as its secretary. The Council was set up to deal with the problems of new Canadians and to help them integrate into Canadian life. Foster published a book, Our Canadian Mosaic, as a result of her survey of immigrant problems in 1925 in the west.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Papers were formerly in the possession of Mrs. Percival A. Foster.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
The collection consists of correspondence, minutes, programmes, reports, articles and speeches relating to the Council of Friendship and its work with immigrants.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Material may be requested in person at the Fisher Library Reference Desk, or in advance using our online stack retrieval request form: https://fisher.library.utoronto.ca/stack-retrieval-request
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English