The first AA meeting in Ontario, Canada was
held at the Little Denmark Restaurant on
January 13th, 1943. Present were Reverends
George Little and Percy Price, accompanied
by six alcoholics.

From "50 Years The History of AA in Ontario"
first printing June 1993.

YIS,
bernadette m.
king city group
ontario

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From G.C. the moderator, see:

http://www.aatoronto.org/webapp/app/webroot/index.php/pages/committees/archives

"Alcoholics Anonymous quietly arrived in Canada, Toronto, Ontario, to be exact,
on January 13th, 1943. The first meeting was held without fanfare at the Little
Denmark Restaurant, located on the west side of Bay Street between Gerrard and
College Streets. Present were Reverends George Little and Percy Price (see
below), accompanied by six alcoholics. Enough interest was shown in the initial
meeting that a second meeting was scheduled and held one week later. And so,
Alcoholics Anonymous in Ontario was born."

Harry Emerson Fosdick's very positive review of the newly published Big Book
"stirred an interest in Dr. George A. Little, D.D., then a fifty-six year old
Minister of the United Church of Toronto. Dr. Little had been a caring man who
had unsuccessfully attempted to help alcoholics gain sobriety. Fosdick's review
led him first to make copies of the book, then to order a personal copy of the
Big Book for himself. Having read the book, he began in earnest mimeographing
portions of it which he distributed to anyone he felt could further the cause or
more importantly, to those he felt might be helped themselves. With his good
intentions and tireless effort, people started to want more, and as a result, he
ordered five copies of the Big Book in June, 1941. As an enthusiastic supporter
of A.A., Dr. Little continued to be the alcoholics' friend - so much so that he
enrolled at the Yale University School of Alcoholic Studies from which he
graduated in 1941."

FOR A COPY OF GEORGE LITTLE'S ARTICLE ON GOD
IN A.A., which is well worth reading, see:

See http://www.barefootsworld.net/aagodconcept.html
THE GOD CONCEPT IN ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS
From Religion in Life, Vol. 18(1): 25-33, 1948
By Rev. George A. Little, D.D.

Little's article is a really excellent summary
of what most early A.A.'s believed about God.
It is completely in line with what the Big Book
says, and may be helpful to modern folks in
reading and understanding the Big Book.

The Rev. Little was influenced by and strongly
supportive of the position held by Harry Emerson
Fosdick, who taught at Union Theological Seminary
in New York City along with Reinhold Niebuhr.

Fosdick was famous all across the country
because of a sermon he wrote entitled
"Shall the Fundamentalists Win?"

This is also worth reading, to understand the
position held by most early A.A. people. This
was also the underlying position held by the
people who edited The Upper Room (the chief A.A.
meditational book from 1935 to 1948).

Copies of Fosdick's "Shall the Fundamentalists
Win?" may be found in a number of places online,
including:

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5070/

http://baptiststudiesonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/shall-the-fundamental\
ists-win.pdf

http://books.google.com/books?id=2bRx12uApGIC&pg=PA243&lpg=PA243&dq=%22Harry+Eme\
rson+Fosdick%22+%22Shall+the+Fundamentalists+Win%3F%22&source=bl&ots=YKN_8jj4C-&\
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