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I am looking/collecting for membership numbers from Magazines. Though the process goes slowly as there are many magazines and not much time. If anybody has at least references what magazines hold stats let me know - you'll save my time browsing them. At one period they switched to stats by ratings.
CFC Membership Stats as of: 1976/05/01
Junior LIFE Adult Total
Total 515 84 2105 2704
AB 56 7 240 303
BC 60 16 193 269
MB 13 2 97 112
NB 43 2 78 123
NL 7 1 20 28
NS 9 2 58 69
NT 0
NU 0
ON 251 43 898 1192
PE 2 7 9
QC 51 9 321 381
SK 23 2 73 98
YT
US
FO 120 120
At that time there were no Family, Honorary and Participating Juniors.
Without having the magazines handy to me at the moment, I would check the issues with the annual rating lists (usually July-August) for each year. Usually there are summaries of the previous year's activities, and some stats may be included.
At that time there were no Family, Honorary and Participating Juniors.
The honorary members were lumped in with the life members and noted on the list I have. They had a membership number.
The CCCA was quickly building up interest and the club topped out at around 700 or slightly more. In addition, there was a private correspondence club which had a couple of hundred or more members. What happened was someone got so upset with me he started his own club. Those were the days of strictly postal chess so me upsetting someone so much by mail was an accomplishment.
You have to also remember in 1976 the population of Canada was smaller so the per capita percentage of members was larger then than the same number now. The population was about 23 million then and around 34 million now.
Had the per capita membership stayed the same with the population increase from the reorganization in 1973 until now the membership would be larger and the organization would likely be a success. For some reason that hasn't happened.
I don't know if the model was flawed or the execution has been flawed over the years.
For what it's worth, back then Jonathan was doing a very good job as business manage of the CFC and I was doing what amounted to the same thing for the CCCA. Maybe Jonathan and I were chess in Canada. There's a scary thought. :)
You have to also remember in 1976 the population of Canada was smaller so the per capita percentage of members was larger then than the same number now. The population was about 23 million then and around 34 million now.
Ca-na-da, we are twenty million... (one, little two, little 3 Canadians...)
Just a mind worm that has stuck in my head for too many years. Readers under the age of 50 are excused for not getting the reference. (to 1967)
1963 :)
What is the last column?
Source - Canadian Chess Chat (CCC) 1963'7. I assume years are fiscal. I was rushing through volumes as the library was closing, thus I did not read any explanations.
CCC impressed me with its photos' quality. No digital shoot&check cameras at that time. If anybody has CCC collecting dust in an attic or a basement, let me know :)
Looking at the number for 1962, I didn't know there were that few members from Manitoba. It's only 19 pairs. It's been a long time but I'm sure the club in Winnipeg had more members than that. Can't remember for sure but seem to think we got more than that for the annual Winnipeg - Minneapolis match in Bemigi in Minnesota. Probably Manitoba had about 25 juniors in 1960. There was a school chess league and I remember that because I played one year.
What I don't know was how the events were rated or if there was a membership fee for the CFC. It might have been a case of submitting an event with some payment for each player to be rated. The modern CFC started around 1973. Back around 1960 most players didn't worry about ratings because there were no GM's in Canada. Whoever won the event was the best player.
It seems to me the first Canadian Open was in 1956 in Winnipeg and Fischer played.
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