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The Canadian Alcoholics Anonymous Archives Association is a loose association of A.A. Archivists and Area Archives Chairs across the 10 delegate areas of Canada, working at the local level - group, district and area.
As archivists, we record and preserve our history for the benefit of the future of AA in Canada, share information and provide support and encouragement to each other. It is also our goal to explain that archives is 12 Step work and is a 12 Step committee as explained by Bill W., in the Archives Workbook, published by the General Service Office. What we do today in our current AA activity becomes our history in the future. Motions passed at the Assembly level, Assembly Minutes, committee , district and group activity, this is how we build on the shoulders those went before us and who had opened the doors of the group meetings prior to our arrival.
Our mandate and work is outside the scope of responsibility of the Archivist and Archives Committee of the General Service Office of AA, who are responsible for AA as a whole. It pertains to local Canadian issues and concerns.
Our goal is to function cooperatively and share experience and knowledge.
Across Canada AA archivists are working at recording oral and group histories, preserving donated material, cataloguing, filing, preparing portable archives presentations, developing access policies and much more.
Our level of knowledge varies from those individual archivists starting out with plastic bags or boxes of material, not knowing where to start, to committees composed of many members, with years of experience working with software databases semi- professional repositories and permanent displays.
We have no need for funding as we will not have a physical location or a repository. We hope to create a website and communicate electronically.
