Canadian Fraternal Association
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The Canadian Fraternal Association is a trade association for fraternal benefit societies in Canada which engages in advocacy on their behalf as well as providing services.

It represents fraternal organizations with approximately 400,000 Canadian members. These fraternal organizations offer financial products and services such as insurance, savings and investment vehicles as well as educational programs, volunteer services and social activities.

References

• Basye, Walter (c1919). History and operation of fraternal insurance. Rochester, N.Y.: Fraternal Monitor, 224 p. : port. ; 20 cm. OCLC 2097499. "Canadian Fraternal Association. This organization has had a long and honorable career. (p. 88)" 
• Henderson, Charles Richmond (1909). Industrial insurance in the United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. OCLC 1508687. "The Canadian Fraternal Association is a society composed of the representatives of seventeen of the prominent friendly societies of Canada. ..." 
• Obituary: Frank E. Hand, The New York Times, April 23, 1944, Sunday, Page 41, 50 words Former president of Canadian Fraternal Association
• Oppose Fraternal Societies; Canadians Trying to Keep American Organizations Out. The New York Times. April 28, 1900, Wednesday. Page 1, 78 words
• Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online - Oronhyatekha Discusses Oronhyatekha of the Independent Order of Foresters who was also the first president of the Canadian Fraternal Association.
• Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online - J. Howard Hunter 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

External links

• Canadian Fraternal Association

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