Inter-Provincial Association of the Deaf

Founded in 1940 as the Inter-Provincial Association of the Deaf by three major regional associations of the Deaf — the Western Canada, the Ontario and the Eastern Canada Associations — with the support of the Montreal Association of the Deaf. - Probably the oldest continuing Deaf consumer group in the country is the Ontario Association of the Deaf, founded in 1886. The Eastern Canada Association of the Deaf traces its origins back to 1904, and the Western Canada Association of the Deaf was founded in 1923. The fourth founding affiliate of the CAD, the Montreal Association of the Deaf, was the youngest of these groups, having been established in 1929. In 1948, the Association became federally incorporated, and became officially known as the Canadian Association of the Deaf.