When the building was sold, some materials were sent to the National Archives, some merch was sold off and everything else was moved to a storage trailer and storage costs were incurred. During his Presidency Michael undertook to empty the storage trailer and digitize our records. This was a daunting, thankless task. I helped him. Saleable inventory was liquidated and Michael scanned all of the magazines and all the old minutes and cross tables (Governor Letters) he could find. There are some gaps in the older GLs I believe.
Unless it's just my ineptitude, there do not appear to be archives of our recent quarterly meetings and AGMs on the website. Some of them have a link that leads to nowhere. The "Governors Letters" page seems to have been abandoned 2 years ago.
I faithfully send in my annual Foundation reports and ask for them to be posted but the most recent one I can find on line is from April 2013 and is posted on the Governors Letters page.
Paul Leblanc
Treasurer, Chess Foundation of Canada
CFC Voting Member
When we changed server companies the files got scrambled. They are all there in the meeting room area. You can see them sort of correctly by sorting by date of last post. The problem is that in order to fix it you have to be able to create subforums which I can't do for some reason. Then you would have to find the hundred hours to move the unholy mess into its proper structure.
Oh and if you do it without the right permissions it gets fixed temporarily but then it gets scrambled again.
Do we have a master list of what's been digitized? I have a box roughly 1'x1'x1' containing mostly GLs from the 80s and 90s and would love to get a list so I could go through that box tossing those that are digitized and preserving those I have that aren't.
I haven't the expertise to go from printed document -> PDF but would be happy to do what I can.
Valer Eugen Demian
FIDE CM & Instructor, ICCF IM
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One item I'd like to put up for discussion:
Saskatchewan Chess Association Funds – The CFC currently holds funds in trust for the Saskatchewan Chess Association. As “the” National organization which supports chess, it seems to me that we (the CFC)have an obligation to ensure that our provincial associations are healthy and thriving. I have no doubt that if and when the Saskatchewan provincial association comes back to life, that the CFC will be willing to assist them in any way possible. It’s obviously in the CFC’s interest to do so. The more provincial organizations we have in good shape, the better for the CFC. I hope to see the Saskatchewan Chess Association (or whatever they'll call themselves when they re-organize), will come together and work to promote chess in Saskatchewan. I would suggest that they will have to form a provincially registered society with an executive and satisfy the CFC that they will use the funds to promote and organize chess in Saskatchewan. Hopefully, someone will come forward and organize themselves to do so. Other conditions may well be imposed by the CFC to ensure the monies are put to good use before transferring the funds to the new organization to ensure legitimacy.