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The Junior Red Cross was a student service organization at North Bay Teachers' College. It was a branch of the Junior Red Cross organization, which was founded in Geneva in 1919 as the youth arm of the international humanitarian Red Cross movement. Branches of the Junior Red Cross were established around the world and had as a common goal the promotion for youth of health, citizenship, community service, and international understanding. In Canada, branches were mainly established in primary school classrooms under the guidance of teachers. Canadian teacher training institutions also set up Junior Red Cross branches, including North Bay Normal School/Teachers' College. The dates of the establishment and dissolution of the North Bay Teachers' College branch are unknown.
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The main function of the North Bay Teachers' College branch was to help student teachers at the college better understand the Junior Red Cross organization so as to be able to establish and oversee branches in the schools they would teach at after graduation. The function of the Junior Red Cross movement as a whole was the promotion amongst youth of health, citizenship, community service, and international understanding. Activities included fundraising for charitable causes, and health education campaigns and presentations.
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Created November 17, 2014
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Sheehan, Nancy M. “Junior Red Cross in the Schools: An International Movement, a Voluntary Agency, and Curriculum Change.” Curriculum Inquiry Vol. 17, No. 3 (Autumn 1987): 247-266