Series GR-0321 - Returned Soldiers Aid Commission minute book and other material

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Returned Soldiers Aid Commission minute book and other material

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GR-0321

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  • 1919-1927 (Creation)
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    British Columbia. Returned Solders’ Aid Commission

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6 cm of textual material

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(1915-1929)

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The Returned Soldiers' Aid Commission (RSAC) developed from the Provincial Returned Soldiers Commission of British Columbia. The latter was formed by Order-in-Council on 29 November 1915 to deal with the provision of farm lands for settlement by returned First World War soldiers and sailors, the provision of academic, technical, and agricultural training for returned men, the establishment of province-wide bureaux to assist veterans seeking civilian employment, and the 'provision of a supply farm for use in conjunction with the Military Convalescent Hospital at Esquimalt, B.C.

The Returned Soldiers' Aid Commission worked closely with the Dominion government's Military Hospitals Commission, an agency which also assisted returned men. The Military Hosptitals Commission (which, in 1918, expanded to become the Department of Soldiers' Civil Re-establishment) looked after a number of hospitals and convalescent homes in the province. These institutions were under the command of Colonel James Swan Harvey (1872-1932), a Nanaimo-born officer who was responsible for all demobilization in British Columbia and the Yukon.

The report was dated March 16, 1916, Dr. H. E. Young, LL.D., M.L.A., chairman. The Returned Soldiers' Aid Commission was re-organized by order-in-council in Nov 1919. The reorganized commission consisted of twelve members, with the Provincial Secretary (the Hon. J.D. MacLean) as Honorary Chairman. Over seventy local committees directed by provincial and federal government officials and by representatives of various veterans' organizations, were also established at this time to help demobilized servicemen throughout the province. Until the RSAC was closed in 1929, it provided aid to veterans and aid to dependents of those who gave their lives during the Great War of 1914-1918.

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This series consists of records of the Returned Soldiers Aid Commission, 1919-1927. Records include: a minute book of the commission, 1919-1920, including statement of expenditures and refunds; copies of orders-in-council dispensing grants for patriotic purposes, 1919-1923; and a report of a special committee of the House of Commons appointed in April 1924 to make an enquiry into an old age pension system Canada.

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Transferred to the BC Archives in 1978.

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Accession number(s): GR-0321

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Previously known as AAAA1308

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  • Box: 880340-2019