August 2003
Winnipeg Women Celebrate the Big Five-O
In February 2003, the Winnipeg Women's Group in Winnipeg, Manitoba, celebrated its fiftieth anniversary, making it, they've been told, the oldest women's group in Alcoholics Anonymous to function continuously for that length of time. --The Home Group<lbHe
AA was established in Winnipeg on November 26, 1944. By 1953, there were four groups, with only a few women members in each. When one of these women, Isobel G., mentioned to her psychiatrist that she would like to be in a women's group, he put her in touch with Therese C. from the Assiniboine Group, and they and ten other women came together to discuss the possibility of forming a women's group. These founding members felt that such a group might meet the needs of women who were sensitive about special issues, including personal anonymity, and The Winnipeg Women's Group was born.
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