Alpine Club of Canada

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Alpine Club of Canada (ACC)
ACC logo
Founded 1906
Place of foundation Winnipeg
Members 14,366 (as of 2018)
Association headquarters Canmore , Canada
Official languages) English , French
Homepage alpineclubofcanada.ca
Arthur Oliver Wheeler (1860–1945), founder of the ACC

The Alpine Club of Canada (ACC) is an alpine association in Canada founded in 1906 in Winnipeg . In contrast to the British Alpine Club , the Canadian ACC allowed women as members from the start. Today the ACC has around 7000 members and consists of 22 regional sections , two of which are French-speaking. He is a member of the international mountaineering association UIAA , has operated 28 refuges and bivouac boxes in the Canadian Rockies since 1927 and is a partner in the Canadian Alpine Center in Lake Louise . The association headquarters is located since 1980 in Canmore in the province of Alberta .

history

Efforts to found an Alpine club based on the British model in Canada also existed as early as the 19th century. The driving force was Arthur Oliver Wheeler (1860–1945), who accepted the American Alpine Club's offer to initially establish an offshoot in Canada. With the help of journalist and mountaineer John Wesley Dafoe (1866-1944) from the Manitoba Free Press , the idea of ​​a Canadian Alpine Club was popularized. Wheeler received further support in 1905 from the journalist Elizabeth Parker (1856-1944), who wrote numerous articles on the subject. At the founding event, Wheeler was elected chairman and Parker was elected first secretary.

Mike Mortimer was President of the ACC from 1994 to 2001 and President of the UIAA from 2005 to 2011 .

publication

The Alpine Club of Canada has published the Canadian Alpine Journal , which has been published annually in July since 1907 , and the 94th volume was published in 2011.

Web link

Commons : Alpine Club of Canada  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ TheUIAA.org: Member Associations 2018-2019 - UIAA
  2. ↑ Beverley Bendell: Canadian Encyclopedia 2002
  3. ↑ Beverley Bendell: Members Handbook , ACC 1996 ( Memento from December 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ AlpineClubofCanada.ca: Mike Mortimer