Prince Edward Island Dance Association

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Prince Edward Island Dance Association

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The organizing meeting to establish the Prince Edward Island Dance Festival Association was held in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island on 4 January 1962. The following people were named as the executive: R. B. MacLaren (President), Mrs. Gordon Batt (Vice President) and Elizabeth Haywood (Secretary Treasurer). Between 1969 and 1970, the name of the organization changed in the minutes to the Prince Edward Island Dance Association. The aims and objectives of the Association were to promote and foster dancing among the people of PEI; to provide opportunities for children to learn and to enjoy dancing through participation in dance activities; and to promote and encourage dancing by means of activities such as the annual PEI Dance Festival, Highland competitions, camps, concerts and workshops which the Association deemed valuable.

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RAD 24.1A

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Dates of creation, revision and deletion

10 February 2009. Copied from PEIAIN 14 July 2015.

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Acc4786

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