Canadian Patriotic Fund

The Canadian Patriotic Fund (1914–1919) was a private fund-raising organization incorporated in 1914 by federal statute and headed by Montreal businessman and Conservative Member of Parliament Sir Herbert Brown Ames.

The fund was established to give financial and social assistance to soldiers' families.[1] By March 31, 1917, the Canadian Patriotic Fund had collected $22,981,616.[2]

An earlier version of the Fund had operated during the Second Boer War for the same purpose, after being announced by Lord Minto, the Governor General of Canada, on January 12, 1900, as a way of coordinating the efforts of numerous smaller organizations that had been competing against each other.[3] The earlier Fund was incorporated by Parliament on May 23, 1901 [4] and raised $339,975.63 during its existence, with charitable disbursements to 1,066 recipients.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Department of Veterans Affairs fonds [multiple media (some microform)].". Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved April 22, 2010. In addition, a publicly-subscribed Canadian Patriotic Fund was organized in August 1914, with responsibilities towards soldiers' families.
  2. ↑ "Canadian contributions for patriotic purposes, by fund, to March 31, 1917". Statistics Canada. Retrieved April 22, 2010.
  3. 1 2 Gordon L. Heath, War with a Silver Lining: Canadian Protestant Churches and the South African War, 1899-1902 (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009) p80
  4. ↑ Desmond Morton, Fight Or Pay: Soldiers' Families in the Great War (University of British Columbia Press, 2004 p53


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