Fonds - Richmond Friendship Home Society fonds

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Richmond Friendship Home Society fonds

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    • 1964-1998 (Creation)
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      Richmond Friendship Home Society

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    485 folders
    1 sound tape reel

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    (1968 - [ca. 1990])

    Administrative history

    The Richmond Friendship Home Society has existed in name since 1968 and was officially incorporated as a non-profit society in 1977. The society arose from the activities of a sub-committee of the Richmond Family Court Committee which was struck in 1964 to investigate the feasibility of creating a short-term placement home for adolescents who, for legal or personal reasons, could not live with their families. The principal activity of the society was the operation and administration of a Receiving Home for troubled adolescents at 7980 Moffat Road in Richmond. The home operated between 1967 and 1984 and provided short-term care for children and adolescents awaiting trial, psychiatric assessment, or placement in foster homes and for transient runaways apprehended by the police. For a short period in the 1970s, the society also administered a number of outreach programs funded by the Ministry of Human Resources. These included Station Stretch and Cook Street alternative education programs and Lindsay Gardens. Lindsay Gardens provided activities for residents of a low income housing project. The society also acted as a contract agency for the Special Services to Children program which provided one-to-one counselling and skills development to children and adolescents. These programs were discontinued in 1978 following criminal investigations of society activities, but the Receiving Home operated until 1984. The society continued to hold regular members meetings into the 1990s.

    Custodial history

    Selected records dated before 1975 and all administrative files from 1975 to 1977 were seized by the RCMP and removed from Society premises in November 1977. The files were returned to the Society in 1980.

    Scope and content

    The fonds consists of correspondence, financial records, minutes, case and personnel files, clippings and ephemera related to the establishment of the Richmond Friendship Home Society and the operations of society programs. The fonds also includes documents relating to criminal trials of Society Board members and staff.

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    Arranged in twenty-one series: 1. Richmond Social Services Department files, 1964-1974; 2. Richmond Family Court Committee files, 1964-1968; 3. Presidents' files, 1968-1982; 4. Board of Directors' files, 1968-1984; 5. Vice-President's files, 1976-1977; 6. Solicitors' files, 1967-1978; 7. Treasurers' files, 1968-1981; 8. Financial records, 1977-1984; 9. Minutes, 1968-1996 ; 10. Subject files, 1967-1968; 11. Directors' files, 1975-1984; 12. Correspondence, 1976-1998; 13. Regina versus Hart et al, 1975-1979; 14. RCMP subject files, 1977; 15. Houseparents, 1968-1974; 16. Personnel, 1976- 1983; 17. Case files, 1975-1984; 18. Clippings, 1968-1983; 19. Ephemera, (1980-1982?), 20. Reference, 1976-1991; 21. Gordon Birrell, 1971-1984.

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        All case files and some personnel records are restricted until 2092. Records which contain the names of clients and families who received service from the Richmond Friendship Home Society have been removed from original file locations and are restricted until 2092.

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        Series descriptions available with file lists.

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        Records relating to the Richmond Friendship Home Society are also located in Clerk's Department files, MR 44, Box 1 3 6 3, file 5506-2

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        With a few exceptions, the whereabouts of case files from 1980 to 1982 is unknown

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        BCAUL control number: CRICH-42

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