Henri and Jane van Gemert, Region K Historians |
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| We are looking at the designation of the letter K in the history of GWRRA in Canada. I have been going through some old news letters and talking to life time members, one of them is Ron Williamson from Ajax, membership No 722. This is a very low membership number; he has been around a long time. |
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| According to the information I gathered, in 1981 Chapter A was formed with Bruce Allan as Area Rep, this Chapter became A Wallaceburg later on in 1991 with Bob and Agnes Saylor as Directors (more about them later). I have not been able to get much information from my old copies of Wing World as they only go back as far as 1983. Anyone who has older Wing World copies and wants to donate them, please contact me at henrijane@sympatico.ca | |||
| In 1983 the whole of Canada was one Region called K, and there were in the beginning of the year only 386 members, but in the same year, September to be exact, this number increased to 595, so there was a good growing trend in Canada. Total membership in GWRRA internationally was 20,600 members. In 1983 the Canadian Region K Director was Robert Denton, and there were seven Chapters with three of them in Ontario. They were Chapter ”A” Oshawa AR Bruce Allan, Chapter “B” Gloucester AR Dennis Coté (chartered in February 1983 with Assistance rep Gordon Abry, and finally chapter “C” Trenton AR Ben DeWitt who also was Regional Director of Ontario at the time. | |||
| The letters AR were short for Area Representative; today they are called Chapter Directors. | |||
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1984 was a year of change again. Calgary became a region all its own called Region “K” and Ontario changed to Region “O” with Bernard DeWitt as Region “O” Director. And we added two chapters: “D” Shanty Bay AR Arthur Lowe, Chapter “E” Kitchener AR Bob Ginzerich, and the Chapter “C” Lead was taken over by Lawrence Farrar, now in Belleville. In 1984 Canada was 940 members strong. Not much changed in 1985. Region “O” added two more chapters: “F” Thunder bay, Dave Stempein as AR, and Chapter “G” St Catharine’s with Dick Ahle running the show. The first Eastern Canadian Wing Gathering was held June 14 -16 in Trenton, "The Bay of Quinte" organized by Bernie DeWitt . I found this old flyer and the cost of the Rally was more in line with 1985 twenty one years ago |
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