Kate A. Foster Papers. 1932-1956.

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Kate A. Foster Papers. 1932-1956.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/225722097

The collection consists of correspondence, minutes, programmes, reports, articles and speeches relating to the Council of Friendship and its work with immigrants.

7 boxes.

Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7068602

Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

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Foster, Kate

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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 ...