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About CWF

Registered Charity 119220135 RR0001

Founded: 1931
Incorporated: 1945

The Canadian Writers' Foundation is the only registered charity that provides continued financial assistance to approved senior Canadian writers in times of extreme financial distress.

"Until the time comes when we can be assured that Canadian authors, who have made a substantial contribution to the cultural heritage of Canada, are not in danger of living out their final years in abject poverty, there will be a need for the Canadian Writer’s Foundation. And while there is that need, the Foundation requires the financial support of Canadians so it may continue to help senior Canadian writers in financial distress," says Marianne Scott, President of the Foundation.

Tax receipts are issued for all donations, bequests, and in memoriam tributes.

The reprinted pamphlet, The Foundation & the Man, written by Walter Dawson (aka Don W. Thomson, former president of The Canadian Writers' Foundation) is the history of The Canadian Writers' Foundation covering the years from 1931 through 1959. Copies are now available from Penumbra Press for $13.60 which includes applicable taxes and shipping charges. To order your copy, please send a cheque payable to Penumbra Press or call them to pay by MasterCard or Visa. (Contact information available on their website at Penumbra Press.)

Current Directors by Region

Alberta:
Cora Taylor-Georgas
 
British Columbia:
Vacant
 
Manitoba:
Betty L. Dyck
 
New Brunswick:
Laurence Hutchman
 
Newfoundland & Labrador:
Noreen Golfman
 
Northwest Territories:
Vacant
 
Nova Scotia:
Lesley Choyce
 
Nunavut:
Yvonne Earle
 
Ontario:
Sandra Campbell
Barbara Clubb
Al de Jourdan
Arthur Drache
Gwen Hoover
Anthony Hyde
Fred Kerner
Seymour Mayne
Marianne Scott
David Staines
Roger N. Tulk
Jane Urquhart
 
Prince Edward Island:
John Flood
Richard Lemm
 
Quebec:
Jeanine C. Beaubien
Gilles Frappier
Harvey Grossman
 
Saskatchewan:
Joan Eyolfson Cadham
 
Yukon:
Vacant

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