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 Canadian writers in times of extreme financial distress.
"We invite all Canadians to join us in helping today's distinguished Canadian writers to be read tomorrow," says Gilles Frappier, past 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 both 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:
- Jack Hodgins
- Manitoba:
- Betty L. Dyck
- Anne Fairley
- 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
- John Flood
- Gwen Hoover
- Anthony Hyde
- Fred Kerner
- Seymour Mayne
- Anne Osborne
- Marianne Scott
- David Staines
- Roger N. Tulk
- Prince Edward Island:
- Richard Lemm
- Quebec:
- Jeanine C. Beaubien
- Gilles Frappier
- Harvey Grossman
- Saskatchewan:
- Joan Eyolfson Cadham
- Yukon:
- Vacant
Current President
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Marianne Scott
Past Presidents
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Robert Falconer 1931-1943 Pelham Edgar 1943-1948 Gustave Lanctot 1948-1955 Albert W. Trueman 1955-1958 Charles P. Stacey 1958-1959 Guy Sylvestre 1959-1961 James A. Gibson 1961-1963 Edna Dorman 1963-1964 Arthur Bourinot 1964-1966 Auguste Morisset 1966-1968 George Buxton 1968-1971 Claude B. Aubry 1971-1973 Donald W. Thomson 1973-1976 John E. Robbins 1976-1978 C. Herbert Little 1978-1998 Gilles Frappier 1998-2008
Updated August 28, 2009
