a table for canada's ymca
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A Table for Canada’s YMCA
A MosaicProject
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An Invitation to Build a Table
• To celebrate our diversity and our unity
• To tell the stories that reveal who we are and what matters to us
• To remember why we’re proud to be Canada’s YMCA
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Inspired by Voyageur
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A Table Made from Everyday Stories
• Ordinary people who prove that everyone can make extraordinary contributions
• Stories that belong to:– volunteer and staff members– participants– international partners– community members
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A Table Made by HandThe Brothers DresslerAward-winning craftsmen who specialize in creating modern furniture from old materials
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A Table Made with Help
Jowi Taylor and Six String NationAn experienced guide for a national mosaic project
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A Table Made by All of Us• 53 Associations (and friends)• 53 pieces (or more)• 1 table• in 1 year• unveiled at the
2011 AGM
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A Table Made of Stories like this One …
“In the room that night, seated in rows of folding chairs, were some thirty young people, mostly in their late teens, obviously labourers, members of a discussion group that met weekly, often to hear a speaker. At the front of the room, seated at a plain wooden table, was the group’s organizer, a man not much older than the members themselves, with straight strong features and with eyes that were clear and blue, a YMCA worker named Murray Ross. He welcomed the members …”
~ Kenneth Bagnell from The Little Immigrants: The Orphans Who Came to Canada 1860s – 1930s (1980)
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The Story of Canada’s YMCA• The last history was written
in 1951 by Murray Ross, the YMCA youth worker who would go on to become a national YMCA staff member, and the first President of York University in Toronto
• The next history will be written by …
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