Title and statement of responsibility area
Title proper
General material designation
Parallel title
Other title information
Title statements of responsibility
Title notes
Level of description
Repository
Reference code
Edition area
Edition statement
Edition statement of responsibility
Class of material specific details area
Statement of scale (cartographic)
Statement of projection (cartographic)
Statement of coordinates (cartographic)
Statement of scale (architectural)
Issuing jurisdiction and denomination (philatelic)
Dates of creation area
Date(s)
-
1912-1988, predominant 1930-1968 (Creation)
- Creator
- United Maritime Fishermen Co-op
Physical description area
Physical description
0.94 m of textual records
Publisher's series area
Title proper of publisher's series
Parallel titles of publisher's series
Other title information of publisher's series
Statement of responsibility relating to publisher's series
Numbering within publisher's series
Note on publisher's series
Archival description area
Name of creator
Administrative history
Following the public grievances of poverty-striken fishermen of Canso, N.S., the federal government appointed a Royal Commission in 1927 to investigate the state of the fishing industry in the Maritime provinces. Based on the commission's recommendations, the federal Department of Fisheries appointed Rev. Dr. M.M. Coady in August 1929 to organize cooperatives of fishermen in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and the Magdalen Islands. During the fall and winter of 1929-30 over one hundred local unions were established, each consisting of at least fifteen fishermen. At the first annual convention held at Halifax 25-26 June 1930, all of the locals were federated into the United Maritime Fishermen and a constitution was adopted. Chester P. McCarthy of P.E.I. served as president for the first year until he led Prince Edward Island out of the UMF. The objectives of the association were to promote the interests and education of fishermen in all branches of the fishing industry; to study and promote cooperative activities; to seek and support legislation benefitting the fishing industry; and to defend the rights and interests of its members. Activities of the association included operating lobster canneries, fish plants, supply stores, and the marketing of fish products. Incorporated in 1947, the UMF central office was based in Halifax. In 1969 the association was reorganized and relocated in Moncton. In the early 1960s the UMF established a wholly owned subsidiary, Bluenose Fisheries Limited, which became a fish processing company by 1980. Also during the 1980s the association's name changed to United Maritime Fishermen Co-op. The United Maritime Fishermen Co-op and Bluenose Fisheries Limited began to experience financial difficulties in the late 1970s and went into bankruptcy closure in April 1988.
Custodial history
Scope and content
Fonds consists of annual meeting minutes and reports of the co-op, 1935-1969; registration books, 1934-1973; minutes of executive directors meetings, 1930-1968, committee meetings, 1939-1958; and local managers meetings, 1957-1959; financial statements, 1931-1972 (incomplete), and other financial records, 1930-1976; correspondence 1935-1966; memoranda and notices, 1940-1974; constitution and by-laws, 1930-1947; legal records, 1915-1973; bulletins, 1931-1947; resolutions, 1939-1951; newspaper clippings, 1936-1980; reports and briefs, 1933-1940, 1951-1966; scrapbooks, 1937-1974; subject files; and miscellaneous material. Scrapbooks contain photographs, newspaper clippings, reports, and other items concerning UMF activities and the fishing industry. Fonds also includes an architectural blueprint of the Halifax warehouse, maps of properties, and photographs of the Barrington Street office and staff, and two postcards of Halifax scenes.
Notes area
Physical condition
Immediate source of acquisition
Donated by Robert and Frances Wade, Dartmouth, N.S. in 1995.
Arrangement
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script note
Some newspaper clippings and other items in French.
Location of originals
Availability of other formats
Restrictions on access
Terms governing use, reproduction, and publication
Finding aids
File list and item list of photographs available.
Associated materials
Accruals
General note
Formerly known as the United Fisherman's Co-op (N.S.) collection.
Physical description
Includes: 6 photographs, 3 maps, 1 architectural drawing.