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Halifax Disaster Record Office
Chronicle Building
Halifax, N.S.

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Street. Looked in at her own house. Found that all was right there and then proceeded to City Hall. Thought the people dazed all that day. "The straightest-thinking people were far from normal." From the 6th the women were working at the Technical College on Red Cross Supplies. F.B. Sexton used the Red Cross car to carry supplies to the various hospitals, and then removed injured persons from the North End. Wounded conveyed on doors laid across the car. Mrs. S. found great confusion in the City Hall. Consulted with Miss Wisdon, Mrs. Charles Archibald and Mrs. Dennis as to what should be done. The City had been districted. for canvassing in the Union Government Campaign, and the women of the City were organized for visiting purposes. At the meeting in the afternoon, there was a distinct feeling not to allow the women to take part in the relief work, or have them on the Committees. Mrs. Sexton spoke. "All the women's organized effort of the City is at your disposal." Finally two women were appointed to the Managing Committee. After the public meeting the main Executive met, at which Mrs. MacIntosh said that all the devastated area had been districted, and that her visitors had visited the whole district. Mrs. MacIntosh is the head of the V.A.D. [St John's Ambulance Voluntary Aid Detachment] but the work [s?]hould not have been done by this time. From that time to this, (Mrs. Sexton said,) the women had been slurred. At the meeting of the day before (Friday) Mrs. MacIntosh had offered to do all the visiting through the agency of the V.A.D.Most of the V.A.D.'s had gone of their own initiative to help in the hospitals. At the meeting of the 'Twenty' a nominating committee was appointed, consisting of Fred Jones, Judge Harris, Beazley and others. In accordance with the suggesting of Mr. Moore, of the American Red Cross called out the I.O.D.E. (Imerperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire) and other women's organizations.