MCC Canada Eastern Canada Programs

Corporate body

MCC Canada Eastern Canada Programs

1972 -

MCC Canada’s Eastern Canada Programs began in 1963 when the MCC office based in Akron, Pennsylvania, began transferring responsibility for their Newfoundland and Quebec programs to the newly established MCC Canada. MCC had been sending Voluntary Service workers to Quebec since the 1950s and to Newfoundland as teachers and nurses since 1954. The Newfoundland and Quebec programs continued to be administered from Akron until they were taken on completely by the MCC Canada Executive Office and run through its Voluntary Service program in the early 1970s.

In 1972, the Newfoundland Program appointed its first resident director on a one-year Voluntary Service basis, thus becoming the first of MCC Canada’s Eastern Canada Programs. In 1982, in response to an increased desire for more MCC Canada programming in the other Atlantic provinces, MCC Canada established the Maritimes Program with an office in New Brunswick. There was also a steady increase in funding along with the number of Voluntary Service workers being sent to Quebec programs throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Since 1982, MCC Canada’s National Program Department has taken on greater responsibility for the Eastern Canada Programs in Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador, and the Maritimes. In 1987, the Quebec Program also became an official Eastern Canada Program. In 2019, MCC Canada closed its Newfoundland and Labrador Program, leaving the Quebec Program and Maritimes Program as the only remaining Eastern Canada Programs.

Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Quebec.

Eastern Canada Programs has been responsible for promoting and administering MCC Canada’s national programs in Quebec and the Atlantic provinces to fit the unique situations within those provinces.

Each Eastern Canada Program is responsible to the Eastern Canada Coordinator who is responsible to the MCC Canada National Program Director.

MCC Canada Newfoundland and Labrador Program (1963-2019)

MCC Canada National Program Department (1981 -)

MCC Canada Quebec Program (1987 -)

MCC Canada Maritimes Program (1982 -)

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Mennonite Central Committee Archives

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Created by Jared Warkentin, March 24, 2020

Epp-Tiessen, Esther. Mennonite Central Committee in Canada: A History. Winnipeg: CMU Press, 2013.