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Conroy Family: biographical.

Includes transcripts and photocopies from newspaper articles dated 1927 and 1934 regarding David Conroy of Peterborough, Ont., genealogical chart, clippings about F.J. Conroy and Marion Conroy, and a small amount of correspondence by Marion (Carveth) Conroy with notes by the donor.

Conroy, Marion

Marion Conroy fonds.

  • SCA122-GA95
  • Fonds
  • 1941-1944

Consists of Marion Conroy's copies of material given to delegates at the National Conference of Regional Chairmen, Consumer Branch, Wartime Prices and Trade Board held in 1944, and includes the agenda and outline of issues for the Conference, as well as a separate report submitted by Kate Aitken, Supervisor of the Conservation Programme, on the establishment and progress across Canada of "Remake Centres." These centres were for teaching women to conserve new yard goods by making over existing garments.

The fonds also contains a scrapbook kept by Marion Conroy of clippings and ephemera dating from 1941-1944. As well as documenting Marion Conroy's activities, the scrapbook contains information on the organization and personalities involved in the Board and the Consumer Branch, such Donald Gordon and Byrne Hope Sanders. Also present are news accounts of the many rules and regulations applied to all aspects of the production and consumption of consumer goods, from fashion, food and drink, and housing, to the delivery and return of purchased goods.

Conroy, Marion

Report on Conservation Programme to Byrne Sanders, Director, Consumer Branch, Wartime Prices and trade Board, submitted by Kate Aitken [Supervisor, Conservation Programme].

Contains Marion Conroy's copy, a ts. original, of this report to the National Conference of Regional Chairmen, WRAC. "The Conservation Programme was inaugurated Mar. 1, 1943, to provide Guidance and inspiration to Canadian Women, to show ways and means of conserving new yardage. The slogan of this program was Make over, Mend, and Make doe[sic]'." The Conservation Programme concentrated on the establishment of "Remake" centres across Canada, where women were taught to to remake garments. The programme also established exhibits of "Travelling Wardrobes" which were shown across Canada. The report contains ca. 20 p. of text, six photographs, four maps, 1 p. clippings.

Conroy, Marion