Our club is born out of the ashes of the originally formed NACBS which operated from 1976 - 1982. With the rebirth of the club we registered as a non- profit organization in September of 1994 with a group of 7 members. At the time and for the first few years we felt that we had the smallest and most northerly club in North America, but not any longer.

The clubs original members were:Jay Bunker(President), Jack Norton(Vice Pres), Christine Versteeg (Secretary/Treasure), Oliver Troock (Show Manager), Bjarne Knudskov (Rings/Membership), Gudrun Knudskov (Social Convenor), Bev Bunker (Member at large).

The number one issue at that time was to put the 'A' back in aviculture and bring birds to the forefront of our club. As hobbyists and fanciers we wanted to share our interests with others, educate the public and members in bird keeping 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. The newsletter started out at a twice yearly printing in 1995, it has now progressed to 10 issues per year.

Although the club is an all variety type, the majority of fanciers interests seem to be with the smaller varieties of cage birds: canaries, finches and small hookbills. To further assist the fanciers in our club we have started a library and subscribed regularly to the British newspaper Cage and Aviary Birds (which celebrated its 100th birthday in 2002).

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 as recommended by the AACC, which itself is based on the standard as set in the United Kingdom. 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. It is felt that in due time ours will be one of the premier shows in western Canada.