Fonds MS 8 - Helen Chambers fonds

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Helen Chambers fonds

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CA BOW MS 8

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  • 1947 - 1980 (Creation)
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    Chambers, Helen

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10 cm textual material
11 photographs
1 map

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(1906-1988)

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Helen Myers Chambers and her husband Claude R. Chambers bought land on Bowen Island in 1946. Helen was a member of Bowen Island Improvement Association, the Bowen Island Garden Club, the Friends of the Bowen Island Library Association, a founding member of Bowen Island Historians and of the Ladies' Auxiliary Royal Canadian Legion # 150, and was campaign chairman for Red Cross Bowen Island.

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The fonds consists of the personal papers of Helen Chambers as well as papers accumulated by her regarding Bowen Island civic societies. Textual materials include legal papers and correspondence relating to land use and taxation (1947-1967), minutes and constitutions of civic societies (1967-1978), and notes from a Bowen Island Historians research project.

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      Created 14 August, 2012

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