Foster, Kate

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Dates:
Active 1863
Active 1872

Biographical notes:

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.

From the description of Kate A. Foster Papers. 1932-1956. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 225722097

Daughter of James Foster, a plantation owner from Madison Parish, La.; resident of Adams County, Miss.

From the description of Diary, 1863-1872. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 154270604

From the description of Diary, 1863-1872. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19647107

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Subjects:

  • Emigration and immigration
  • Plantations
  • Women
  • Women

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  • Confederate States of America (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • Confederate States of America (as recorded)
  • Louisiana--Madison Parish (as recorded)
  • Louisiana (as recorded)
  • Louisiana (as recorded)
  • Canada (as recorded)
  • Louisiana--Madison Parish (as recorded)