Ontario members support IODE Community Services Department
Carrying Forward a Tradition of Service
The Ontario chapter of IODE received its charter in 1920.
Since 1938, the chapter has gathered, packed and shipped needed articles. Statistics regarding the total IODE WWII effort were a staggering $5,365,440 and over $2 million of that figure came from the chapters in Ontario. However, the real worth lay not in the material values, but in the spirit that inspired and sustained members through the years of the war. A large part of the work was to fill the Services libraries. Books and magazines were gathered for every camp, station and ship and sent through Geneva to the prisoner of war camps and this continued until 1948.
For a more complete picture of IODE Ontario Services work since its inception in 1920, visit our Services History Page.
Today the value of shipments continues to grow. Articles shipped include many items made and donated by chapter members and friends of IODE from across Ontario for babies, children, women and men. These articles are sent to isolated Indigenous communities in Northern Ontario.
To see the communities that we support, visit our Isolated Northern Ontario Indigenous Communities Page.
For a list of items currently needed, email [email protected].
Since 1938, the chapter has gathered, packed and shipped needed articles. Statistics regarding the total IODE WWII effort were a staggering $5,365,440 and over $2 million of that figure came from the chapters in Ontario. However, the real worth lay not in the material values, but in the spirit that inspired and sustained members through the years of the war. A large part of the work was to fill the Services libraries. Books and magazines were gathered for every camp, station and ship and sent through Geneva to the prisoner of war camps and this continued until 1948.
For a more complete picture of IODE Ontario Services work since its inception in 1920, visit our Services History Page.
Today the value of shipments continues to grow. Articles shipped include many items made and donated by chapter members and friends of IODE from across Ontario for babies, children, women and men. These articles are sent to isolated Indigenous communities in Northern Ontario.
To see the communities that we support, visit our Isolated Northern Ontario Indigenous Communities Page.
For a list of items currently needed, email [email protected].