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, President of the Foundation.
Tax receipts are issued for all donations, bequests, and in memoriam tributes.
Current Directors by Region
- Alberta:
- Cora Taylor-Georgas
- British Columbia:
- vacant
- Manitoba:
- Betty L. Dyck
- Anne Fairley
- New Brunswick:
- Laurence Hutchman
- Newfoundland & Labrador:
- Vacant
- Northwest Territories:
- Vacant
- Nova Scotia:
- Lesley Choyce
- Nunavut:
- Vacant
- 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
- Lucie Vanier Vincent
- 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 June 18, 2008
