I.O.D.E. Major Jack Ross Chapter Cash Account Book
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- Material Type
- Manuscript
- Date Range
- 1940-1948
- Accession No.
- 19891079010
- Scope and Content
- Cash book of the Major Jack Ross Chapter of the IODE in Lethbridge. Covers the years 1937-1948.
- Material Type
- Manuscript
- Date Range
- 1940-1948
- History Biographical
- The IODE (Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire) was founded in 1900 by Margaret Polson Murray of Montreal. During the Boer War in South Africa, she recognized that support needed to be developed for Canadians serving in the war. IODE members raised money to send comforts to the men. The IODE also created a program to maintain graves of soldiers and to help provide social services for returning soldiers. During the First and Second World Wars, the IODE supported hospitals and hospital ships, helped provide relief to prisoners, established libraries and canteens and did more to support service personnel. The IODE idea grew across Canada and the first chapter in Lethbridge started in 1914 (the year the First World War started). In Lethbridge, along with the work the volunteers did to support the national work of the IODE, the IODE worked to make a better community. By the 1950s there were 7 IODE Chapters operating in Lethbridge. The Major Jack Ross Chapter was named to honour Major Jack Ross who lost his life in France in 1916 (and was brother to George Ross, local rancher). This Chapter was formed in 1917 with Mrs. Rachael DeVeber as first Regent. The Chapter took as their primary purpose the support of the Sunbeam Ward (or Children’s Ward) at the Galt Hospital and later the Municipal Hospital. When the new Municipal Hospital was built, this Chapter contributed a sum of money to set up a trust fund for the new Sun Beam Ward. The Chapter also had the Emily Hick award in Pediatrics for a graduate of the Galt School of Nursing as well as a scholarship for Grade 12 Science.Over the decades the various members of the IODE donated countless hours working at the broad program which included: Education, Patriotism, Services at Home and Abroad, War Memorials, Immigration and Canadianization, Hospitality and Films” in cooperation with civic government and civic departments. The IODE supported, as well as those groups already mention, the YWCA, Senior Citizens’ Home, Red Cross, Canadian Cancer Society, various schools and more. Over time, the chapters lost members and amalgamated. In 1989 the last two remaining chapters of the IODE in Lethbridge combined, hoping to combine their efforts and keep going. Unfortunately in the long run this wasn’t enough and disolved in 2007 in Lethbridge.
- Scope and Content
- Cash book of the Major Jack Ross Chapter of the IODE in Lethbridge. Covers the years 1937-1948.
- Accession No.
- 19891079010
- Collection
- Archive
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