SCM Canada’s founding National Conference in 1921

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SCMers at the University of Victoria in the 1920s

View a copy of an SCM membership card with our Bases & Aims from 1927.

SCM was founded in 1921, emerging out of the YM/YWCA movement in Canada. Over the decades, it was at the forefront of the ‘social gospel’ movement for a more just Canadian society, took stands against the internment of Japanese Canadians during WWII, and held summer ‘work camps’ which connected students to the factory union movement.

SCM Members David & Glenys with Senior Friend and former United Church moderator, Lois Wilson