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

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Updated August 28, 2009