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Incomplete memorandum on the Department's Social Assistance Branch, prepared by E.W. Griffith, Assistant Deputy Provincial Secretary.

Case files for children admitted to the Alexandra Non Sectarian Orphanage and Children's Home in Vancouver.

Case files, registers of pupils, records of school grades achieved and a few personal items. The Industrial Home for Girls was established by legislation in 1912 to house girls under the age of 16 who had been convicted of a crime, or who have been shown to be vicious or incorrigible and beyond her parents' control. The school was opened in 1914, on a site which later became 800 Cassiar Street, Vancouver. In 1959 the school was moved to 3655 Willingdon Avenue in Burnaby, and became known as the Willingdon School for Girls, later abbreviated to the Willingdon School. During the early years the Home was administered by the Department of the Attorney General. It was transferred to the administration of the Department of the Provincial Secretary ca.1934. In 1937 the 1912 Act was repealed and replaced with An Act respecting the Industrial School for Girls. The Home was renamed the Industrial School for Girls. In 1946 the Industrial School for Girls was transferred from the Department of the Provincial Secretary to the administration of the Social Welfare Branch of the new Department of Health and Welfare. In 1963 the Industrial School Acts were repealed and replaced with the Training Schools Act. In 1969 the Training Schools Act was repealed. The Willingdon School was closed in 1973.

Autobiographical account of childhood in Kettle Valley, 1909-1919; correspondence concerning Laura Holland Scholarship Fund at the University of British Columbia, 1950-1956; and notes re: Vancouver Children's Aid Society and other child welfare organizations. Also includes minutes and correspondence of the British Columbia Board of Governors of the Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School, 1946-1949.

Records of the Fairbridge Alumni Association and predecessor organization, Old Fairbridgian Association. Members of the association were formerly trainees at the Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School, ca. 1935-1951. Records include correspondence (1946-1975), minutes (1947-1970), newsletters and gazettes (1950-1954), constitution and financial reports 1964-1974), account books and receipts, and addresses of alumni, ca. 1953-1962. The records were maintained by the Rev. Thomas E. Speed, a Fairbridge alumnus. Photographs transferred to Visual Records Division.

This series consists of the Minister of Human Resources records, 1977-1978. Records include the Minister's correspondence, memoranda, reports, and subject files. Files arranged alphabetically. Subject files include adoption, daycare, municipal offices, regional offices and Alderlea Lodge (King George Rest Home).

This series consists of correspondence, memoranda, reports and minutes of meetings of the Assistant Deputy Minister of the Dept. of Rehabilitation and Social Improvement, predominantly from 1971-1973.

This collection is comprised of the administrative records of the province's involvement in the field of child welfare through its Child Welfare Division and Superintendent of Child Welfare. It covers all aspects of child welfare work, including foster homes, delinquency, adoptions, illegitimacy, child welfare organizations, federal provincial relations, and professional approaches. The bulk of the collection covers the period 1950-1969, although some files are as early as 1943. Some files include photographs or architectural plans.

The series has been divided into the following sub-series:
Section A. Correspondence
Section B. Policy
Section C. Statistics
Section D. Administration
Section E. Staff (Including Training)
Section F. Federal Government
Section G. Other Jurisdictions
Section H. Related Organizations
Section I. Conferences And Committees
Section J. Native Indians
Section K. Doukhobours
Section L. Children's Aid Societies
Section L. Part 1. General
Section L. Part 2. Catholic Children's Aid Society
Section L. Part 3. Victoria Agencies
Section L. Part 4. Vancouver C.A.S.
Section M. Protection And Children In Care
Section M. Part 1. Administration
Section M. Part 2. Miscellaneous
Section M. Part 3. Resources
Section N. Foster Homes - General
Section O. J.E.F.F. Project (Joint Effort For Fostering)
Section P. Juvenile Delinquency
Section Q. Unmarried Parents
Section R. Adoption
Section S. Miscellaneous Subject Files
There is a conversion list of the ministry's original file numbering system at the end of the finding aid.

This series consists of a systematic sample of early case files including some of the earliest applications for the Old Age Assistance, Disabled Persons Allowance and Blind Persons Allowance programs; case files from the Island Youth Centre; and files representing the generalized case loads of the regions, including social allowance, pensions, boarding and nursing homes, foster homes, unmarried mothers, and all matters that were dealt with by the Welfare Field Service.

In January 1975, E.L. Northup, the Associate Deputy Minister, sent out an operational directive (No. 201974/75) to all Regional Directors, District Supervisors, Municipal Administrators, Divisional and Institutional Heads and Senior Administration, requesting that the various offices send a random sample of their files inactive since 31 December 1966, to the Provincial Archives.

The sampling instructions were to "select every 5th file from each group until the sample is complete". A certain number of files were requested from each Region, the Island Youth Centre and the Division of Aging. Although the instructions were to sample only from files inactive since 31 December 1966, some of the files received do include material up to 1972.

Region 2 - 25
Region 3 - 15
Region 4 - 15
Region 5 - 40
Region 6 - 25
Region 7 - 15
Region 8 - 15
Region 9 - 15
Region 10 - 20
Region 11 - 50
Island Youth Centre - 10
Division of Aging - 25 of each case category cited (B.P.A., D.P.A., S.A., O.A.S.)

Although the instructions were to sample only from files inactive since 31 December 1966, some of the files received do include material up to 1972.

This collection includes some of the earliest applications for the Old Age Assistance, Disabled Persons Allowance and Blind Persons Allowance programs. It includes case files from the Island Youth Centre. It also includes files representing the generalized case loads of the regions, which usually include social allowance, pensions, boarding and nursing homes, foster homes, unmarried mothers, and all matters that were dealt with by the Welfare Field Service.

The series consists of records created by the Superintendent of Neglected children, 1913 to 1945. Records consist of a register of adoptions, 1920-1945 (giving date of adoption, date of birth, surname by adoption, first name and surname at birth); record of adoptions, 1920-1931 (giving name of child, sex, name of foster parents, date of consent, date of court order); account of monthly expenditures December 1922 to October 1925 and a record of admittances to children's homes, chiefly the Children's Aid Society, Vancouver, B.C., 1913-1927.

Files of the Departmental Comptroller relating to the Children's Aid Society of Vancouver, the Catholic Children's Aid Society of Vancouver and the Children's Aid Society of Victoria including annual budgets, financial statements and reports and correspondence with the Societies.

In 1969 the Community Care Facilities Licensing Act replaced the Welfare Institutions Licensing Act regulating private care facilities in the province. The following year responsibility for the supervision and administration of the Act was transferred from the Department of Rehabilitation and Social Improvement to the Health Branch of the Department of Health Services and Hospital Insurance, as was the Chief Inspector and his staff.

The Provincial Child Care Facilities Licensing Board was instituted about 1976, when the Community Care Facilities Licensing Board was split into the Adult Care and the Child Care Boards. Members on the board included staff of the Department of Health, Department of Human Resources, Department of Education as well as community representatives.

These records consist of files created and received by the Provincial Child Care Facilities Licensing Board (previously the Community Care Facilities Board). They include correspondence with universities and colleges in B.C. relating to the topic of early childhood education and day care supervision courses. They also contain general correspondence with school districts and health units.

In 1969 the Community Care Facilities Licensing Act replaced the Welfare Institutions Licensing Act in regulating private care facilities in the province. The next year the responsibility for the supervision and administration of the act was transferred from the Department of Rehabilitation and Social Improvement to the Health Branch of the Department of Health Services and Hospital Insurance, along with the chief inspector and his staff.

The Provincial Child Care Facilities Licensing Board came into being ca. 1976 when the Community Care Facilities Licensing Board split into two boards; adult care and child care boards. Membership on the board included staff of the Department of Health, Department of Human Resources, Department of Education and community representatives.

These records are files of the staff of the Provincial Child Care Facilities Licensing Board (earlier the Community Care Facilities Division). The files include correspondence of the executive officer of the board.

The series consists of records of the Vancouver Resources Board include some records of the Children's Aid Society of Vancouver, the Vancouver City Welfare and Rehabilitation department and a very small number of files from the Hastings Sunrise Community Resource Board and the Grandview Woodland Community Resource Board.

The file consists of pamphlets, brochures, booklets, reports, and backgrounders on child welfare. These records appear to have been collected and used by Margaret L. Trenchard. The file covers a variety of child welfare institutions, including the Children's Aid Society, the Bishop Cridge Centre for the Family, and the Canadian Jewish Congress.

The series consists of a random sample of social assistance application case files from various provincial field offices. Each file title provides the name of the field office followed by the name of the client. A file code provides lists the type of service.

File codes used include: AFH - Application to be a foster home AHP - Application for adoption of a child CIC - Child in Care CHIR - [social assistance for training at a vocational school] FS - Family Services OAA - Old Age Assistance OASB - [Old Age Assistance Board] PAH - Pending Adoption PFH - Pending Foster Home SA - Social Assistance SAS - Social Assistance for a single person SA1P - Social Assistance for a single parent SA2P - Social Assistance for two parents SAC - [Social Assistance Child] UPA - Adoption Planning WI - Welfare Institution licensing

Statistical report for the year 1937. Prepared by the Vital Statistics Division.

This series includes six case files (1914-1920), one pamphlet, four news clippings (1956-1969) and one letter regarding the school. Also known as Willingdon School for Girls.

Registers of Vancouver C.A.S.: (1) Admissions, 1901-1912 (including C.A.S. of Victoria and C.A.S. of the Holy Rosary); (2) Children in C.A.S. Home, 1901-1927; (3) Committed children, 1927-1928; and (4) Non-committed children, 1927-1928; boarders not previously entered in register; and all non-committed children in C.A.S. Home at end of July, 1927 (transferred from old register).

Series consists of correspondence inward, sermons and addresses, pamphlets and newspaper clippings pertaining to mental health services, and a brief entitled "Home For Emotionally Disturbed Children" prepared in 1956 by the Canadian Association of Social Workers and a Joint Committee of the Community Chest and Council of Greater Vancouver.

Newspaper cuttings concerning Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School and Old Fairbridgians, ca. 1934-1983; copies of provincial government statutes and regulations re: welfare institutions, etc., 1937-1948; correspondence to Miss Katie O'Neill (farm school cottage mother), 1936-1941, 1960. Also a photocopy of a certificate from the Fairbridge Society in Britain to the Fairbridge Alumni Association, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the Fairbridge Farm School at Cowichan Station. 1 leaf.

In 1895, the Local Council of Women of Victoria formed the Friendly Help Association "to assist families in distress." The F.H.A. was virtually the first private organization especially devoted to social welfare work in Victoria. On 20 June 1901, the Children's Aid Society of Victoria was incorporated under provisions of the "Children's Protection Act" (Chap. 9.9, 1901, B.C. Statutes) by the action of fourteen Victoria women. In 1901, the first home for children was established on Fern Street. A succession of homes were managed by the C.A.S. until 1933, when the home, then on Pandora Street, was condemned and the society turned to the placing of children in foster homes.

Meanwhile, in 1912 the Social Service Commission was formed by the Ministerial Association for "the betterment of social, moral and industrial conditions.'' In 1923, the name changed to the Social Service League. In 1933, the Social Service League amalgamated with the Friendly Help Association to form the Friendly Help Welfare Association, later in 1938 changed to the Family Welfare Association.

In 1931, to combat the depression, the Victoria Citizens Unemployment Relief Fund (The Mayor's Fund) was established. Three years later, the Friendly Help Welfare Association took over the work of the Mayor's Fund. In 1947, the Family Welfare Association and the Children's Aid Society amalgamated. In 1951, the amalgamated organization, still officially in the Children's Aid Society of Victoria, named its program the Family and Children's Service, and operated under that rubric until 1973 when the organization was absorbed by the Department of Human Resources.

Account books, annual reports, clippings, correspondence, executive reports, journals, memoranda, minutes and statistical data of the Society and of social service organizations amalgamated with or absorbed by the Society.

The series consists of files created by the Deputy Minister of Social Welfare. They are arranged in alphabetical order and include correspondence, memoranda, reports and minutes of meetings of the Deputy Minister.

This series consists of correspondence inward and outward, and interdepartmental memos of the Provincial Secretary, pertaining to provincial mental health care institutions, mothers' pensions, child welfare, and adoption laws from 1918-1926.

This series consists of Provincial Industrial School for Boys records, 1919-1977. Records include correspondence of the principal of the school 1926-1942, case summaries of students 1970-1977 and lists of students 1919-1977. For the period 1974-1977, females are listed as well as males.

This series consists of the personal files of the Deputy Provincial Secretary, Paschal de Noe Walker, 1930-1946. Records deal with health and welfare facilities (hospitals, industrial schools, etc.), social services, elections, libraries, museums and a variety of other programmes and services administered by the Provincial Secretary's department.

The series consists of files of the Superintendent of Neglected Children, including correspondence and a report relating to an investigation of the Victoria Children's Aid Society in 1919-1920; two reports: "Married women in employment Port Alberni and Alberni" and "Recreation and Accommodation" prepared in 1942, and a series of case files relating to individual children, 1916-1945.

The series consists of records created by the British Columbia Superintendent of Neglected Children between 1922 and 1964. The records contain three volumes documenting changes of disposition of children in the care of the Children's Aid Society, Vancouver, B.C.
Vol. 1: Records of Roman Catholic children, 1922-1942;
Vol. 2: Records of Protestant children, 1922-1942;
Vol. 3: Cheque register, 1945-1964.

The series consists of records created by the Deputy Provincial Secretary between 1914 and 1933 pertaining to the administration of funds for the "aid of the destitute, poor, and sick."

Between 1872 and 1942, an annual vote of funds was included in the estimates of the B.C. legislature. The fund, which was administered by the Office of the Provincial Secretary, originally contained $500. By 1935, this figure had risen to $110,000; but in the fund's final year of existence, 1943, the vote of funds had declined to $40,000.

The Indigent Fund, unlike the Mother's Pension, the Old Age Pension (1927), or the Veterans Assistance plans was not tied to an Act of Parliament, and thus relief was provided to people under a wide range of circumstances, and included many who failed to qualify for assistance under specific federal or provincial schemes. The fund was designed to meet the immediate and shortterm needs of rural B.C. residents (municipalities had their own funds) who through misfortune or bad planning had found themselves without "the necessities of life." The key to the fund, until the early 1930s, when the position of Superintendent of Welfare was created, was the Deputy Provincial Secretary, for it was often at his discretion that assistance was provided. He was aided in his duties by the various Government Agents, who were responsible for handling vouchers, disbursing cheques, and reporting to Victoria any new developments in individual cases. They, in turn, were assisted by Provincial Police constables who usually investigated each case and submitted a report.

The records consist of correspondence inward and outward from the Deputy Provincial Secretary's office; correspondence from Government Agents to the Deputy Provincial Secretary; Provincial Police reports on the condition of Indigents; correspondence from indigents or persons representing them to the Premier, Ministers, and the Deputy Provincial Secretary; and miscellaneous correspondence to and from various government departments and agencies such as Workman's Compensation Board, Department of Immigration, public hospitals, police departments etc.

The files are arranged alphabetically by the last name of the indigent. They are not, however, arranged alphabetically within each folder. There are two alphabetical series, as well as two sets of files titled "miscellaneous". All files have been preserved in their original order.

The series consists of records created by the Child Welfare Division between 1940 and 1947. The records include case files, arranged alphabetically by surname of the individual case, of the Children's Overseas Reception Board, under the direction of the Superintendent of Child Welfare. Accompanying this series is a numeric file register dated 2 May 1941 including the following headings: overseas (#7000-8999; 10,000-12,999), miscellaneous (#9000-9999; 13,000-14,999), general (#15,000-19,000), and adoptions (#5,000-6,999; 19,430).