Canadian Fraternal Association Explained

The Canadian Fraternal Association / L’Association Fraternelle Canadienne (CFA-AFC) was a trade association based in Waterloo, Ontario, for fraternal benefit societies in Canada which engaged in advocacy on their behalf as well as provided services. It was dissolved in July 11, 2016.

History

Fraternal benefit societies became popular in Canada in the 1870s and 1880s, representing a quarter of all the insurance sold in Canada by the time the CFA-AFC was founded in 1891.^[1] The original goal of CFA-AFC was to promote the financial solvency of its members, a goal that became more important after federal and provincial governments passed laws that required them to adopt sounder actuarial policies in the first decade of the twentieth century.

By 1979 fraternal benefit societies only represented two percent of all life insurance sold in Canada. Nevertheless, the eighteen fraternal orders that made up the CFA-AFC accounted for ninety percent of all Canadian fraternalists. That percentage had declined by tenfold by 1997.^[2] In 2010, represented fedraternal organizations with approximately 400,000 Canadian members. These fraternal organizations offered financial products and services such as insurance, savings and investment vehicles as well as educational programs, volunteer services. and social activities.^[3] Its members included the Sons of Scotland.

Its last headquarters was located at 470 Weber Street North in Waterloo, Ontario. CFA-AFC was dissolved in July 11, 2016.^[4]

See also

• American Fraternal Alliance

Further reading

• Book: Basye , Walter . History and operation of fraternal insurance. c. 1919. Fraternal Monitor. Rochester, N.Y.. 2097499. 19012649. 224 p. : port.; 20 cm. Canadian Fraternal Association. This organization has had a long and honorable career. (p. 88). p. 88.
• Book: Henderson , Charles Richmond . Industrial insurance in the United States. 1909. University of Chicago Press . Chicago . 1508687. 09003310 . The Canadian Fraternal Association is a society composed of the representatives of seventeen of the prominent friendly societies of Canada. ....
• News: Frank E. Hand . The New York Times . April 23, 1944 . 41. ; Former president of Canadian Fraternal Association
• News: Oppose Fraternal Societies; Canadians Trying to Keep American Organizations Out . The New York Times . April 28, 1900 . 1.
• Oronhyatekha . Gayle M. . Comeau-Vasilopoulos . 13 . ; of the Independent Order of Foresters (and Orange Order who was also the first president of the Canadian Fraternal Association.
• Hunter, John Howard . Gayle M. . Comeau-Vasilopoulos . 13 . ; Biography of insurance regulator who was called the "father of fraternalism in Ontario" at a 1910 meeting of the Canadian Fraternal Association.
• Testimony of the Canadian Fraternal Association before the Banking Committee of the Senate of Canada

Notes and References

1. Alvin J. Schmidt Fraternal Orders (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press), 1930, p. 61
2. [Alan Axelrod]
3. Web site: Home . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130902051438/http://cfa-afc.org/index.php . September 2, 2013 . 2024-11-04 . CFA - AFC - Canadian Fraternal Association promoting the welfare of fraternal benefit societies in Canada. . web.archive.org.
4. Web site: CANADIAN FRATERNAL ASSOCIATION (L'ASSOCIATION FRATERNELLE CANADIENNE) Federal Corporation Information . October 13, 2024 . Government of Canada.