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1990-2010 (Creation)
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- Helen Creighton Folklore Society
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76 cm of textual records and other material
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The Helen Creighton Folklore Society was officially registered on 29 May 1997 after the organization changed its name from the Helen Creighton Folklore Festival Society. The mandate of the organization is to encourage and promote work that reflects the diverse folk culture of the Maritimes as exemplified by the work begun by Dr. Creighton. The Society hosts an annual ghost-story writing contest with the Halifax Public Libraries and awards prizes for traditional music at the Kiwanis Music Festival and the New Glasgow Folksong Festival. It also administers a grants-in-aid program which was taken over from the former Helen Creighton Foundation which merged with the Society on 5 October 1997. The Society also merged with the Fred Redden Society for Traditional Music on 5 August 1999. The Society continues to sponsor folk events and has been instrumental in the production of a number of compact disks including: Songs of the sea, traditional folk song and narratives from Dr. Helen Creighton and Acadian songs from Pubnico and Grand-Etang from the Helen Creighton collection .
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Consists consists of minutes, reports, financial statements, grant applications, special projects, promotional items and correspondence. The contents of the series document the creation and work of this Society and its predecessor bodies in promoting events and research in the study of folklore in Atlantic Canada.
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Donated by the Helen Creighton Folklore Society in 1999 and 2011.
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