Kinsmen Club of Cornwall

Service Club Council
On March 5th, 1935 the first two service clubs in Cornwall, the Kiwanis Club Inc. and the Kinsmen Club Inc., held a joint luncheon meeting with the guest speaker being Captain W.C.C Innes. The topic of that address was, “Federal Income Tax and how it may be abolished”. These two Clubs continued to meet, twice a year, and were joined in 1940 by the Cornwall Lions Club.

Sometime in 1945 the “Cornwall Service Club Council” was formed, with the first President being Kiwanian Mac Good. Mr. Good was largely responsible for organizing this event. The Clubs that made up the Council were the Kiwanis (chartered in 1927), the Kinsmen (chartered in 1933), the Royal Canadian Legion (chartered in 1939) and the Lions (chartered in 1940). The objective of this Council was to co-ordinate the fund raising activities, as to timing, of these different Clubs within the City.

The name today is the “Cornwall and District Service Club Council”. The size of the Council has varied from 19 clubs to its present 15 clubs. As well as the original four clubs, the Knight of Columbus Council 755 (chartered in 1903), Kinette Club (chartered in 1942), Cornwall Optimist (chartered in 1948), Royal Canadian Air Force Assoc. -Wing 424 (chartered in 1950), Cornwall Rotary (chartered in 1950), Garde Nativité (chartered in 1952), Army, Navy & Air Force-Unit 342 (chartered in 1960), Cornwall and District Navy Vets (chartered in 1962), Lancaster Optimist (chartered in 1987), Cornwall Rotary-Sunrise (chartered in 1989) and the Catholic Woman's League, make up the Council.

The Clubs of the Council appoint two (2) members from each to represent it at the Council table. A regular monthly meeting is held at the Legion to review correspondence and make others aware of the different fund raising activities to see that none were in conflict.

At some point in time or perhaps at the beginning, member Clubs of the Council drafted a constitution that consisted of a President, Vice President, Secretary and a Treasurer. They would run the activities of the Council. This constitution has been amended several times, the latest being in the year 2003 .

Cornwall Community Hospital
The Cornwall Community Hospital Foundation’s mandate is to provide ongoing financial support for capital expenditures required to maintain valuable health care programmes and services for our community.

In 2004, the Cornwall Community Hospital Foundation accepted the challenge to raise funds for the community’s portion of the Cornwall Community Hospital redevelopment project.

The community responded as never before raising over $12.3 million by the time the campaign ended in 2006. The KINSMEN CLUB OF CORNWALL donated the most of any service club pledging $100,000 to the campaign over five years.

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