About
The Club
What We're About
The Northern Alberta Cage Bird Association is a club whose members have an interest in all varieties of cage birds. The club operates in the greater Edmonton area but also serves members from across Alberta and western Canada.
As hobbyists and fanciers, we want to share our interests with others and educate people about the husbandry and breeding of cage birds. We have been very successful in doing so through regular monthly meetings, summer baby shows, and annual fall shows. We also publish a newsletter to keep in touch with our out-of-town members and keep everyone informed of the clubs activities.
Executive Team
This is our executive team, always working towards club improvement, setting up expos, and facilitating meets for our wonderful members!
President
Jack
Vice President, Social Convenor
Carol
Editor, Secretary
Theresa
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Treasurer
Jean
Bands & Membership
Bev
Show Manager
TBD
History
After an initial re-evaluation, it was time to put the ‘A’ back in ‘aviculture’ and bring breeding birds to the forefront of our club. As hobbyists and fanciers, we wanted to share our interests with others and educate the public and members in keeping and breeding cage birds. We have been very successful in doing so through regular monthly meetings, summer baby shows, and annual fall shows. We also publish a newsletter to keep in touch with our out of town members and keep everyone informed of the clubs activities
The newsletter started out at a twice yearly printing in 1995, then progressed to 10 issues per year. It is now sent out via email to all paid members.
We held our first public exhibition in West Edmonton Mall in 1996 together with the Edmonton Pet Parrot Club. After building our membership base a little, we decided to start holding annual fall shows. We base the criteria for showing and judging the birds on the standards set in the United Kingdom as recommended by the AACC, which itself was based on UK criteria. In 1999 we held our first annual show as well as hosting the Western Canadian Canary Classic. This got us through the starting gates and we haven’t looked back since.
Due to a change in government regulation, the club had a name change in 2014, and is now referred to as an Association instead of a Society.