What We Were Like

AA began in Canada in 1940, when the Rev. George Little in Toronto read a review of the Big Book and ordered a copy for an alcoholic who had resisted all other attempts at rescue. The Big Book turned the trick, and the two men went to work introducing AA to other Toronto drunks. The first AA meeting was held at the Little Denmark restaurant in January 1943, as a result of the efforts of another Toronto clergyman, the Rev. Percy Brice. Soon the AAs met weekly, then leased a clubroom --and the rest, as they say, is history.