MCC Canada Maritimes Program

Identity area

Type of entity

Corporate body

Authorized form of name

MCC Canada Maritimes Program

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Description area

Dates of existence

1982 -

History

MCC Canada’s Maritimes Program began in 1982 when a new Maritimes regional office was established separately from the Newfoundland and Labrador office. This new office provided support for Voluntary Service workers in Atlantic provinces other than Newfoundland and Labrador since, by the late 1970s, there was growing interest in expanding Voluntary Service opportunities beyond Newfoundland and Labrador into the other Atlantic Provinces. The first Maritimes Program office was opened in Sussex, New Brunswick, in 1982, and was moved to Petitcodiac, New Brunswick in 1989. The Maritimes Program office ran programs in Saint John, Fredericton, Minto, Sussex, Petitcodiac, and Moncton, in New Brunswick; Charlottetown in Prince Edward Island; and Truro, Halifax, and Sydney in Nova Scotia. In 2000, the office was moved to a more central location in Moncton which allowed staff to connect more easily across the Maritimes.

Throughout its history, the Maritimes Program relied heavily upon MCC Voluntary Service workers to fulfill its activities in the region. The Maritimes Program introduced and implemented MCC Canada programming in the Maritimes including the Handicap Concerns, Employment Concerns, Restorative Justice, and Indigenous Neighbours programs, as well as other programs that respond to relevant social issues. The office has also partnered with local organizations that share MCC Canada’s priorities.

MCC Canada’s National Program Department supervises MCC programs in Eastern Canada through the work of a regional representative.

Places

New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island.

Legal status

Functions, occupations and activities

The Maritimes Program implements MCC Canada programs in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island and partners with other local organizations that share MCC Canada’s priorities.

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Internal structures/genealogy

From its beginning in 1982, the Maritimes Program existed as a program within the Eastern Canada Programs Department via the work of a regional director.

General context

Relationships area

Related entity

MCC Canada Eastern Canada Programs (1972 -)

Identifier of the related entity

MCC CA

Category of the relationship

hierarchical

Type of relationship

MCC Canada Eastern Canada Programs

is the superior of

MCC Canada Maritimes Program

Dates of the relationship

1982 -

Description of relationship

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Control area

Authority record identifier

MCC CA

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Draft

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Created by Jared Warkentin, March 24, 2020

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Sources

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

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