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1916-2005 (Creation)
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- Canadian Girls in Training. National.
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Canadian Girls in Training began with the establishment of the Canadian National Advisory Committee for the Cooperation in Girls’ Work in summer 1915 at a meeting in Toronto with representatives of the Methodist, Presbyterian, Anglican, and Baptist Sunday School Associations, the Canadian Council of Provincial Sunday School Associations, and the Dominion Council of the YWCA. In October 1916 the Committee published a pamphlet entitles “Canadian Girls in Training” and the program it outlined was launched across the county the following year. The movement expanded so rapidly that by 1920 it was necessary to introduce a more formal organization.
In 1920 the National Advisory Committee became the National Girls’ Work Board of the Religious Education Council of Canada (R.E.C.C.). The R.E.C.C. was a co-operative organization of the Anglican, Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches in Canada. The R.E.C.C. was established in 1919 to take over most of the responsibilities for work in Canada, where previously the International Sunday School Association based in the U.S.A. was responsible. The National Girls’ Work Board gave the drive and direction to the C.G.I.T. movement after 1920 which had been provided prior to that point by the YWCA.
In the 1930s a financial crisis led to a revision of the constitution of the National Girls’ Work Board, but more substantial changes occurred in the following decade. In 1946 the Anglican Church withdrew its support from C.G.I.T. in order to develop its own denominational girls’ program. In the following year, the Canadian Council of Churches was established. The responsibilities of the former R.E.C.C. were transferred to the Department of Christian Education of the new Council, and the National Girls’ Work Board became the National C.G.I.T. Committee of this Department
In 1976 C.G.I.T. became an independent ecumenical body supported by the United Church of Canada, the Presbyterian Church in Canada and Baptist ministries.
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Series contains four subseries: 1) Administrative Records, 1919-2005, 2) Records related to Leadership Training and Courses, 1917-1984, 3) Records related to Camps, 1952-1986, 4) Publications, 1916-2003.