Category:Union of American Exiles (UAE)

The Union of American Exiles grew out of efforts by a number of American exiles to help themselves find employment and get settled in Toronto. The exiles felt that these problems affected the entire community of exiles and were problems that could be solved on the community level as opposed to being private problems that had to be solved by each individual acting separately. The initial idea of the Southern Contingent was to develop a system to encourage job seekers to supply Noami Wall with job leads that she could use for other men. The job information service was also intended to create a way for the exiles to stay in touch with each other after successfully immigrating. When a meeting was called to organize the job service, there were no plans for anything other than that. It turned out that there were other groups of exiles who were also thinking about the needs of the exile community. The meeting to organize the job service quickly moved to larger issues. The meeting became the impetus for a diverse organization that was eventually called the Union of American Exiles.