Charta (Charter)

C H A R T A
udělená dne 28. září 1960

ČESKOSLOVENSKÉMU NÁRODNÍMU SDRUŽENÍ V KANADĚ

slavnos­t­ně předá­na min­istryní pro občanství a přistěho­valectví

The Hon. Ellen L. Fair­clough

XIII. Kon­gre­su Českosloven­ského národ­ního sdružení v Kanadě
11. a 12. břez­na 1961 v Hamil­tonu, Ontario

byla vydá­na úřadu­jícím min­istrem Sec­re­tary of State, The Hon. Leon Bal­cerem.

Char­ta inko­r­poru­je Českosloven­ské národ­ní sdružení v Kanadě jako veře­j­nou nevýděleč­nou orga­ni­zaci s výsad­ním právem použí­vat v chartě uve­dené jméno, která má působ­nost a prá­vo provo­zo­vat svou čin­nost na celém území Kanady a jinde.

Jméno „Českosloven­ské národ­ní sdružení v Kanadě“ bylo 24. čer­vence 1984 změněno na „Českosloven­ské sdružení v Kanadě“ a 14. květ­na 1995 na součas­né

“ČESKÉ A SLOVENSKÉ SDRUŽENÍ V KANADĚ — ČESKÉ A SLOVENSKÉ ZDRUŽENIE V KANADE”.

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Plné znění char­ty je k dis­pozi­ci pouze v anglické verzi.

 

C H A R T E R

grant­ed to

CZECHOSLOVAK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA

C A N A D A

BY THE Hon­ourable LEON BALCER,

Act­ing SECRETARY OF STATE OF CANADA
To all to whom these presents shall come, or whom the same may in any­wise con­cern, GREETING:

WHEREAS, in and by Part II of Chap­ter 53 of the Revised Statutes of Cana­da, 1952, known as the Com­pa­nies Act, it is, amongst oth­er things, in effect enact­ed that the Sec­re­tary of State of Cana­da may by let­ters patent under his seal of office grant a char­ter to any num­ber of per­sons, not less than three (3) who, hav­ing com­plied with the require­ments of the said Act, apply there­for, con­sti­tut­ing such per­sons and oth­ers who there­after become mem­bers of the cor­po­ra­tion there­by cre­at­ed, a body cor­po­rate and politic with­out share cap­i­tal, for the pur­pose of car­ry­ing on, in more than one (1) province of Cana­da, with­out pecu­niary gain to its mem­bers, with objects of a nation­al, patri­ot­ic, reli­gious, phil­an­thropic, char­i­ta­ble, sci­en­tif­ic, artis­tic, social, pro­fes­sion­al or sport­ing char­ac­ter, or the like, upon the appli­cants there­for estab­lish­ing to the sat­is­fac­tion of the Sec­re­tary of State of Cana­da due com­pli­ance with the sev­er­al con­di­tions and terms in and by the said Act set forth and there­by made con­di­tions prece­dent to the grant­i­ng of such char­ter:

AND WHEREAS, FRANTISEK NEMEC, Writer, JIRI JAN SKVOR, Pro­duc­er, and IVAN BUJNA, Busi­ness­man, of the City of Mon­tre­al, in the Province of Que­bec, BEDRICH CECHA, Man­ag­er, of the Town of Burling­ton, in the Province of Ontario, STANISLAV REDINA, Real Estate Bro­ker, FRANTISEK NOVOTNY, Sales­man, JIRI GEORGE CORN, Char­tered Accoun­tant, VOJTECH SKUBAL, Man­u­fac­tur­er, PROKOP VLADIMIR HAVLIK, Busi­ness­man, JAN KALLA, Cook, and VACLAV SALAK, Painter, of the City of Toron­to, in the said Province of Ontario, ANTONIN DAICAR, Sales Man­ag­er, and STANISLAV KLOUDA, Machin­ist, of the Town­ship of Sid­ney, in the said Province of Ontario, PAUL MYSLIN, Stu­dent, of the Town Dun­das, in the said Province of Ontario, KAREL SEIF, Clerk, of the Vil­lage of Frank­ford, in the said Province of Ontario, VILIEN KRATOCHHVIL, Tool and Diemak­er, of the City of Wind­sor, in the said Province of Ontario, HUBERT OBR, Design­er, and DAGMAR PETRKOVA, House­wife, of the City of Hamil­ton, in the said Province of Ontario, and JOHN KARGER, Machin­ist, of the Town­ship of Wool­wich, in the said Province of Ontario, have made appli­ca­tion for a char­ter under the said Act, con­sti­tut­ing them and such oth­ers as may become mem­bers in the cor­po­ra­tion there­by cre­at­ed a body cor­po­rate and politic under the name of

CZECHOSLOVAK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA

for the pur­pose here­inafter men­tioned, and have sat­is­fac­to­ri­ly estab­lished the suf­fi­cien­cy of all pro­ceed­ings required by the said Act to be tak­en, and the truth and suf­fi­cien­cy of all facts required to be estab­lished pre­vi­ous to the grant­i­ng of such let­ters patent, and have filed in the Depart­ment of the Sec­re­tary of State a dupli­cate of the mem­o­ran­dum of agree­ment exe­cut­ed by the said appli­cants in con­for­mi­ty with the pro­vi­sions of the said Act:

NOW KNOW YE that I, LEON BALCER, Act­ing Sec­re­tary of State of Cana­da, under the Author­i­ty of the said Act, do, by these let­ters patent, con­sti­tute the said FRANTISEK NEMEC, JIRI JAN SKVOR, IVAN BUJNA, BEDRICH CECHA, STANISLAV REDINA, FRANTISEK NOVOTNY, JIRI GEORGE CORN, VOJTECH SKUBAL, PROKOP VLADIMIR HAVLIK, JAN KALLA, VACLAV SALAK, ANTONIN DAICAR, STANISLAV KLOUDA, PAUL MYSLIN, KAREL SEIF, VILIEN KRATOCHVIL, HUBERT OBR, DAGMAR PETRKOVA and JOHN KARGER, and all oth­ers who may become mem­bers in the Cor­po­ra­tion, a body cor­po­rate and politic with­out share cap­i­tal under the name of

CZECHOSLOVAK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA

with all the rights and pow­ers con­ferred by the said Act, and for the fol­low­ing pur­pos­es and objects, name­ly: -

(a) to devel­op the high­est stan­dards of cit­i­zen­ship in Cana­di­ans of Czechoslo­vak ori­gin by encour­ag­ing, car­ry­ing on and par­tic­i­pat­ing in activ­i­ties of a nation­al, patri­ot­ic, cul­tur­al and human­i­tar­i­an nature, in the fur­ther­ance of the best inter­est of the Coun­try and of Cana­di­ans of Czechoslo­vak ori­gin;

(b) to act in mat­ters affect­ing the sta­tus, rights and wel­fare of Cana­di­ans of Czechoslo­vak ori­gin and Czechoslo­vaks com­ing to Cana­da;

© to car­ry on and assist in efforts for the improve­ment of the social and eco­nom­ic and cul­tur­al con­di­tions of Cana­di­ans of Czechoslo­vak ori­gin and to co-oper­ate with oth­er agen­cies in ren­der­ing assis­tance and help­ing to reha­bil­i­tate Czechoslo­vak immi­grants and refugees;

(d) to pro­mote the growth of a spir­it of tol­er­a­tion, under­stand­ing and good­will between all eth­nic ele­ments in Cana­da;

(e) to co-oper­ate in main­tain­ing and defend­ing free­dom and democ­ra­cy in Cana­da and to car­ry on and assist Cana­di­ans in efforts for uphold­ing, strength­en­ing and estab­lish­ing a demo­c­ra­t­ic sys­tem of gov­ern­ment every­where in the world and par­tic­u­lar­ly in Czecho­slo­va­kia;

(f) to cul­ti­vate in the mem­bers appre­ci­a­tion of their moth­er tongue, their cul­tur­al her­itage and his­tor­i­cal tra­di­tions;

(g) to study prob­lems affect­ing the fore­go­ing objects and to con­duct research and encour­age stud­ies there­on and to pub­lish peri­od­i­cals, pam­phlets and oth­er lit­er­a­ture and infor­ma­tion on the work of the Cor­po­ra­tion in the fur­ther­ance of its objects;

(h) to raise funds and to col­lect and receive monies and prop­er­ty, by con­tri­bu­tions, sub­scrip­tion, gifts, lega­cies and grants, for the objects of the Cor­po­ra­tion or for any spe­cial pur­pose it may deter­mine or as may be direct­ed by donors con­sis­tent with its afore­said objects;

(i) to suc­ceed and take over all rights, oblig­a­tions, name and prop­er­ty held, used and enjoyed by CESKOSLOVENSKE NARODNI SDRUZENI V KANADE — CZECHOSLOVAK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA — an unin­cor­po­rat­ed body hereto­fore hav­ing had its chief office in the City of Mon­tre­al, in the Province of Que­bec.

The oper­a­tions of the Cor­po­ra­tion may be car­ried on through­out Cana­da and else­where.

The head office of the Cor­po­ra­tion will be sit­u­at­ed at the City of Mon­tre­al, in the Province of Que­bec.

The said FRANTISEK NEMEC, JIRI JAN SKVOR, IVAN BUJNA, BEDRICH CECHA, STANISLAV REDINA, FRANTISEK NOVOTNY, JIRI GEORGE CORN, VOJTECH SKUBAL, PROKOP VLADIMIR HAVLIK, JAN KALLA, VACLAV SALAK, ANTONIN DAICAR, STANISLAV KLOUDA, PAUL MYSLIN, KAREL SEIF, VILIEN KRATOCHVIL, HUBERT OBR, DAGMAR PETRKOVA and JOHN KARGER are to be the first direc­tors of the Cor­po­ra­tion.

And it is here­by ordained and declared that, when autho­rized by by-law, duly passed by the direc­tors and sanc­tioned by at least two thirds (2/3) of the votes cast at a spe­cial gen­er­al meet­ing of the mem­bers duly called for con­sid­er­ing the by-law, the direc­tors of the Cor­po­ra­tion may from time to time

(a) bor­row mon­ey upon the cred­it of the Cor­po­ra­tion;
(b) lim­it or increase the amount to be bor­rowed;
© issue deben­tures or oth­er secu­ri­ties of the Cor­po­ra­tion;
(d) pledge or sell such deben­tures or oth­er secu­ri­ties for such sums and at such prices as may be deemed expe­di­ent; and
(e) mort­gage, hypoth­e­cate, charge or pledge all or any of the real and per­son­al prop­er­ty, under­tak­ing and rights of the Cor­po­ra­tion, present or future, to secure any such deben­tures or oth­er secu­ri­ties or any mon­ey bor­rowed or any oth­er lia­bil­i­ty of the Cor­po­ra­tion.

Noth­ing in this clause lim­its or restricts the bor­row­ing of mon­ey by the Cor­po­ra­tion on bills of exchange or promis­so­ry notes made, drawn, accept­ed or endorsed by or on behalf of the Cor­po­ra­tion.

And it is fur­ther ordained and declared that the busi­ness of the Cor­po­ra­tion shall be car­ried on with­out pecu­niary gain to its mem­bers and that any prof­its or oth­er accre­tions to the Cor­po­ra­tion shall be used in pro­mot­ing its objects.

Giv­en under my seal of office at Ottawa this twen­ty-eight day of Sep­tem­ber, one thou­sand nine hun­dred and six­ty.

( Seal )

“Louis Lesage”

for the Act­ing Sec­re­tary of State.

Dat­ed 28th Sep­tem­ber, 1960.
Record­ed 26th Octo­ber, 1960.
Film 160 — Doc­u­ment 102.

F. Weath­er­head
for the Deputy Reg­is­trar Gen­er­al of Cama­da.
Ref. No. 163374
MD

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BY — LAW No. 5

being a by-law chang­ing the head office and year-end of the Czechoslo­vak Nation­al Asso­ci­a­tion of Cana­da.

BE IT ENACTED as By-law No. 5 of the Czechoslo­vak Nation­al Asso­ci­a­tion of Cana­da (here­inafter called the “Cor­po­ra­tion”) that:

(a) The head office of the Cor­po­ra­tion shall be changed from the City of Mon­tre­al, in the Province of Que­bec, to the City of Toron­to, in the Province of Ontario.

(b) The fis­cal year-end of the Cor­po­ra­tion shall be changed from the 31st day of August to the 31st day of Decem­ber.

Dat­ed this 16th day of Sep­tem­ber 1961.

BY — LAW No. 13

being a by-law autho­riz­ing an appli­ca­tion for sup­ple­men­tary let­ters patent amend­ing and vary­ing the pro­vi­sions of the let­ters patent of the Czechoslo­vak Nation­al Asso­ci­a­tion of Cana­da.

BE IT ENACTED as By-law No. 1 of the Czechoslo­vak Nation­al Asso­ci­a­tion of Cana­da (here­inafter called the “Cor­po­ra­tion”) that:

1. The Cor­po­ra­tion be and is here­by autho­rized to make appli­ca­tion to the Min­is­ter of Con­sumer and Cor­po­rate Affairs for sup­ple­men­tary let­ters patent amend­ing and vary­ing the pro­vi­sions of the let­ters patent incor­po­rat­ing the Cor­po­ra­tion:

(i) by chang­ing the name of the Cor­po­ra­tion to CZECH AND SLOVAK ASSOCIATION OF CANADA;

(ii) by delet­ing there­from claus­es “a”, “b”, “c”, “d”, “e”, “f”, “g” and “h” and sub­sti­tut­ing there­fore the fol­low­ing:

(a) to devel­op the high­est stan­dards of cit­i­zen­ship in Cana­di­ans of Czech and Slo­vak ori­gin by encour­ag­ing, car­ry­ing on and par­tic­i­pat­ing in activ­i­ties of a cul­tur­al and human­i­tar­i­an nature;

(b) to act in mat­ters affect­ing the sta­tus, rights and wel­fare of Cana­di­ans of Czech or Slo­vak ori­gin and of Czechs and Slo­vaks com­ing to Cana­da;

© to car­ry on and assist in efforts for the improve­ment of the social and eco­nom­ic and cul­tur­al con­di­tions of Cana­di­ans of Czech or Slo­vak ori­gin and to co-oper­ate with oth­er agen­cies in ren­der­ing assis­tance and help­ing to reha­bil­i­tate Czech and Slo­vak immi­grants and refugees;

(d) to pro­mote tol­er­ance, under­stand­ing and good­will between all eth­nic ele­ments in Cana­da;

(e) to co-oper­ate in main­tain­ing and defend­ing free­dom and democ­ra­cy in Cana­da and to car­ry on and assist Cana­di­ans in efforts for uphold­ing, strength­en­ing and estab­lish­ing a demo­c­ra­t­ic sys­tem of gov­ern­ment every­where in the world;

(f) to cul­ti­vate in mem­bers appre­ci­a­tion of their moth­er tongue, their cul­tur­al her­itage and his­tor­i­cal tra­di­tions;

(g) in the exe­cu­tion of the fore­go­ing to con­duct research, to secure pub­lic and oth­er finan­cial sup­port and to co-oper­ate with oth­er orga­ni­za­tions with com­pat­i­ble inter­ests.

The oper­a­tions of the Cor­po­ra­tion may be car­ried on through­out Cana­da and else­where.

Dat­ed this 14th day of May, 1995.