Canberra Mothercraft Society.

Also known as
Canberra Mothercraft Society Inc. (1929-)
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Canberra Mothercraft Society (CMS) was established in 1929, one of many women's organisations at the time which formed around the National Council of Women in the Australian Capital Territory to meet the needs of public servants being transferred to the new capital city, and of workmen engaged in building it.

Canberra had been proclaimed capital of Australia on 12 March 1913 by Lady Gertrude Denman, wife of the then Governor-General.

Initially the CMS provided its first mothers and babies health service in the same central Canberra premises housing the national newspaper, the Canberra Times. From these premises, visiting clinics were organised at workers encampments in the newly developing suburbs. Later the CMS also operated Canberra's first crèche.

The growth of Canberra was slowed during the Great depression of the 1930s, and during World War II, but the CMS continued to provide its services in partnership with the relevant Commonwealth Government agency, the Department of the Interior.

After World War II the Federal Government under Prime Minister Robert Menzies acted decisively to speed the growth of the national capital, and many more Federal agencies, with their staff, were transferred from other Australian cities to Canberra.

As Canberra's population grew, so grew the need for services for mothers and babies. To mark the coronation in 1953 of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, a public appeal in Canberra raised funds to build a post-natal residential care service in central Canberra on land donated by the Department of Territories.

The building was opened in 1953 by the wife of the Prime Minister, Mrs (later Dame) Pattie Menzies. Subsequently, the Commonwealth Department of Health through its territorial administration took on increased responsibility for the provision of infant welfare services.

After self-government was granted to the Australian Capital Territory in 1989, the ACT Health department took over responsibility for child health services and clinics, and continued to work in partnership with the CMS in the operation of the QEII.

Children's day care services became more commonly provided through a range of community based and commercial agencies as the Commonwealth provided financial support for child day care services from 1972 onwards, accelerating after 1975.

In 1999 the Territory Government provided a new building in Curtin, by now the demographic centre of Canberra, for the operation of the QEII under the aegis of the Canberra Mothercraft Society.

This entry was researched and written by Marie Coleman

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Australian Women's Register

  1. Constitution of the Canberra Mothercraft Society
    Canberra Mothercraft Society
    [1935]
    Published: Federal Capital Press
  2. Annual report
    Canberra Mothercraft Society
    [1995]
    Published: Canberra Mothercraft Society
  3. Annual general meeting
    Canberra Mothercraft Society
    [1994]
    Published: Canberra Mothercraft Society
  4. The mothering years : the story of the Canberra Mothercraft Society 1926-1979
    Crisp, Helen and Rudduck, Loma
    [1979]
    Published: Canberra Mothercraft Society
  5. National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection: Crisp, Helen Papers, [manuscript] (1939 - 1983)
    Papers relating to various organisations with which Helen Crisp was associated, including the Child Welfare Committee, National Council of Women, Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, Australian Federation of University Women, ACT Health Commission, Australian Consumers' Association and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Other files contain material on women in the Commonwealth Public Service, child care, home economics, women's education, technical education and health services.
    MS 7593

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  1. Newsletter / Canberra Mothercraft Society
    Canberra Mothercraft Society
    [ Periodical : 1990-2011 ]
    At ACT Public Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 65.589)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 65.589)

  2. Annual general meeting / Canberra Mothercraft Society
    Canberra Mothercraft Society
    [ Periodical : 1950-1994 ]
    At National Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 61.464)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 61.464)

  3. Canberra Mothercraft Society records
    Canberra Mothercraft Society
    [ Unpublished : 1926-1993 ]
    At ACT Public Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 42.901)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 42.901)

  4. Annual report / Canberra Mothercraft Society
    Canberra Mothercraft Society
    [ Article : 1995-2011 ]
    At 2 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 39.518)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 39.518)

  5. The mothering years : the story of the Canberra Mothercraft Society 1926-1979 / Helen Crisp and Loma Rudduck
    Crisp, Helen
    [ Book : 1979 ]
    At 19 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 36.27)

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  6. Report of the medical officer / Canberra Mothercraft Society
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    [ Periodical : 1900-1958 ]
    At National Library
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  7. Constitution of the Canberra Mothercraft Society, as adopted by special meeting held on Friday, May 10, 1935
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    [ Book : 1935 ]
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  1. Newsletter / Canberra Mothercraft Society
    Canberra Mothercraft Society
    [ Periodical : 1990-2011 ]
    At ACT Public Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 63.976)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 63.976)

  2. Annual general meeting / Canberra Mothercraft Society
    Canberra Mothercraft Society
    [ Periodical : 1950-1994 ]
    At National Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 59.851)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 59.851)

  3. Canberra Mothercraft Society records
    Canberra Mothercraft Society
    [ Unpublished : 1926-1993 ]
    At ACT Public Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 43.272)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 43.272)

  4. Annual report / Canberra Mothercraft Society
    Canberra Mothercraft Society
    [ Article : 1995-2011 ]
    At 2 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 38.484)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 38.484)

  5. The mothering years : the story of the Canberra Mothercraft Society 1926-1979 / Helen Crisp and Loma Rudduck
    Crisp, Helen
    [ Book : 1979 ]
    At 19 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 36.642)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 36.642)

  6. Constitution of the Canberra Mothercraft Society, as adopted by special meeting held on Friday, May 10, 1935
    Canberra Mothercraft Society
    [ Book : 1935 ]
    At National Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 19.498)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 19.498)

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