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Application for Membership
Alcoholics Anonymous By May 1945, 26 members and their wives were meeting at Dave’s flat on Victoria Street in Westmount. The members met twice a week. lt was standing room only.
ln June 1945, the first meeting room was rented at the Montreal Forum. The room was the Board Room of the Red Feather Agency (now the United Way) for a fee of 10$ a month.
Drunks and card games seem mix and soon all night card games were occurring and this led to the Group being shown the door.
AImost immediately members started slipping and it soon resulted in the membership being reduced by half.
ln an attempt to try to control the drinking of those who had slipped, the Application for Membership was instituted.
At this period in history, the Traditions were just starting to be explored.
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Application for Membership I ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS llevlng nad lhc Twclvc Stcps and havln, ta*.n Stcp No, l, I oppll’lor mcmbcnhlp ln th. Montrcol Group of Abohoilcs Aaonynout Wh.n odrnlttcd lo mcmboshlp lt wlll bc m! dcsb. lo co.opcrutc wbh thc Uotrp at fully at potslblc tnd nol to harm ll, latcil.t. wllh fut wor*, ot lmpcd. llt ptottcst ln any way,
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l. t rSrcc not to attend any mceting on a day on which I hsvc takcn anything whatsocvcr of an alcoholic nrturc,
2. ln thc intcrrsts of comDldc honcsty, if I do any drinking whatsocvcr rl any timc, I will mrke thc facl lnown to nry sponsor, or in his rbscncc, lo sonlc olhcr scnior mcmber of thc 8roup, and rryill not attempt to dclibcratcly htde such drinking from lhe group.
3. Furthcr, in thc cvcnt rhat I contlnuc drintin3 intcrmiurnlly whilc ostensibly a mcmber of this group, I agrcc to rclinquich my mcmbcrship ifaskcd to do so by rhc troup through my sponsor or thc Sroup sccrclery. ,1. Understanding thar akhouSh thc aims 8nd objcctivcs of AA arc wcll lnown, namcs and affairs of thc group arc dcfinitcly sccrd, I al,rce not to divulgc namcs of membcrs to outsidcrs or lo discuss privatc affairs ofthe group rrith non-membcrs. 5. I undcrtakc to introduce ncrv mrmbers to thc group onlyafterthcy have fulfillcd whctcacr qualilications for mcmbcrship thc group may from timc to iimc rcquirc. 6. I undcnakc to familiariac mysclf *ith rhc duli€s rnd obligations of a sponsor and whcn callcd upon to sponsor an applicanl will malccvcry cffon to scc lhal hc bocomes a good mcmbcr.
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