1940 Toronto gets the message

"The Fellowship's message will spread north when Rev. Dr. George Little, a Toronto United Church minister who is also active in the temperance movement, learns of the Big Book in 1940, orders a few copies, and gives two to a small group of alcoholics who have been gathering for mutual support. Led by Tom E., the men will become Canada's first A.A. group as they begin to hold meetings in a room above Toronto's Little Denmark Tavern in 1943."

(AAWS Inc)

See also: The God Concept in Alcoholics Anonymous