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Alberta Camping Association fonds
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5.14 m of textual records and other material
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The Alberta Camping Association (A.C.A.) is dedicated to the promotion and organization of camping in Alberta. It was initially formed in 1949 as a Provincial Section of the Canadian Camping Association, which was incorporated federally by Letters Patent on November 5, 1949. The objectives of the Alberta Camping Association were: to further the interests and welfare of children, youths and adults through camping as an educative, character building and constructive recreational experience; to act as an Alberta promotional and coordinating body for camping throughout Alberta; to develop, maintain and recognize high standards in camping; to represent member groups and to serve as a contact between government and those groups, and to keep people informed of governmental developments and regulations; and to interpret and disseminate knowledge concerning camping in general and to study the wider aspects of the camping movement. The Alberta Camping Association was incorporated in its own right December 17, 1971 under Alberta's <em>Societies Act</em>. The objectives of the Association remain to: to further the interests and welfare of children, youths, and adults through camping as an educational, character building, and constructive recreational experience; to develop, maintain and encourage high standards of organized camping; to provide information about camps and to interpret children's camping to parents and the general public; to strive for the recruitment and training of leaders for every phase of camping; to develop awareness and appreciation of the natural environment, and to encourage activities which are harmonious with it; and to study all aspects of camping and to interpret and disseminate knowledge about camping. Membership includes camps, associate members, commercial members, student members and general members. The association is a federated member of the Canadian Camping Association.
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The fonds consists of the records of the Alberta Camping Association and includes two sous-fonds, the Northern Alberta Branch of the Alberta Camping Association sous-fonds and the Calgary and District Branch of the Alberta Camping Association sous-fonds; and one series, Canadian Camping Association records, relating to the A.C.A.'s affiliation with the Canadian Camping Association including constitutions, bylaws, minutes, reports, correspondence, financial statements, and issues of the Canadian Camping Magazine. The fonds also includes the following: constitutions, bylaws, incorporation records, executive/board minutes, annual general meeting minutes, reports, financial records and statements, membership records, correspondence, seminar workbooks, programs, directories, newsletters, educational material, camp standards, manuals and handbooks, pamphlets and other information about various camps throughout the province, conference handouts and slides and photographs of camps.
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Physical condition
Includes 251 transparencies, 132 photographs, 5 audio cassettes, 2 videotapes, and 1 microfiche.
Immediate source of acquisition
Representatives from the Alberta Camping Association deposited the records in the Provincial Archives of Alberta on an ongoing basis between 1978 and 1995.
Arrangement
Records from accessions PR1980.0144, PR1982.0227 and PR1985.0169 were integrated into PR1978.0095.
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- The material is in English.
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Access Conditions: None. Use Conditions: Permission for use required. Subject to the Copyright Act.
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An inventory is available for PR1978.0095.
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Records pertaining to the Canadian Camping Association are located in the Canadian Camping Association fonds at the Trent University Archives in Peterborough, Ontario.
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Further accruals are not expected.
General note
Information for the administrative history is from the records and from the Alberta Camping Association's website, <a href="http://www.albertacamping.com/" trget="_blank">http://www.albertacamping.com/</a>, accessed November 12, 2004.<br><br>Record No. Fonds consists of the following accessions: PR1978.0095, PR1991.0492, PR1992.0350, PR1995.0221<br><br>
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