Material relating to the organization, administration and operation of the United Way of Kitchener-Waterloo and Area from 1941-1994. Included are include correspondence, minutes and reports, financial records, publications, ephemera, scrapbooks, sound and moving image material, artifacts, and other material created or received in the course of business. The fonds includes material relating to the organization, management and results of yearly campaigns, as well as material relating to the allocation of funds to member agencies. Information about member agencies is present as well and includes their financial reports and ephemera. Publications issued by local, provincial and other social service agencies and United Ways help provide a context for understanding the larger framework within which the local organization functions.
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SCA has a selection of print and archival material that document the history of birth control in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, women’s reproductive health, and family planning. Collections include the organizational papers of the Parents' Information Bureau, a Kitchener-based clinic for family planning and birth control set up by A.R. Kaufman of the Kaufman Rubber Company, and records related to Marie Stopes, the founder of Mother's Clinic for Constructive Birth Control, the world’s first birth control clinic.
In addition to documenting the early advancement of reproductive rights, SCA's collections support research about eugenics-informed rhetoric used to advance reproductive issues and advocacy in and outside of feminist circles. SCA also holds records and trial transcripts related to the trial of Dorothea Palmer, who was arrested in 1936 for advertising birth control to women in the Eastview neighbourhood of Ottawa.