Catholic Women’s League of Canada

St. Basil Council

Established 1952

Concern with care
Working with love
in League with others

Current officers:

President: Julie Gibson

Vice president-membership: Leeanne Vreugdenhil

Recording secretary: Lorraine Good

Corresponding secretary: Brenda Archer

Treasurer: Christine Telfer

Past president: Donna Kane

Committee chairs:

Spiritual Director: Margaret McCarthy

League History

The Catholic Women's League of Canada was organized nationally on June 17, 1920 and granted federal incorporation on December 12, 1923.

The League is officially recognized by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) as a lay association of women and is affiliated with the World Union of Catholic Women's Organizations (WUCWO), a world-wide federation holding membership in the conference of International Catholic Organizations (ICO) and having consultative status with agencies of the United Nations.

Our Mission

The Catholic Women’s League of Canada is a national organization that calls its members to grow in faith and to witness to the love of God through ministry and service.

League Objects

The objects of the League shall be to unite Catholic women of Canada:

1. to achieve individual and collective spiritual development

2. to promote the teachings of the Catholic church

3. to exemplify the Christian ideal in home and family life

4. to protect the sanctity of life

5. to enhance the role of women in church and society

6. to recognize the human dignity of all people everywhere

7. to uphold and defend Christian education and values in the modern world

8. to contribute to the understanding and growth of religious freedom, social justice, peace and harmony

We are currently holding our meetings between the 9:30 am and 11:30 am Masses on Sundays, in the hall, usually the third weekend of the month..

Some of the ways in which we carry out our call to service for God and Canada in this parish:

* parish coffee the last Sunday of the month

* participate in various ministries: Eucharistic ministers, commentators, lectors, choir, ushers, collection counters and St. Vincent de Paul Society

* organize the annual shoe box campaign for children in Third World countries