The Federation of Canadian Artists (FCA) was established in 1941 with André Bieler as its first president. Other leaders have included the Group of Seven painter, Lawren Harris. As a provincially incorporated society and federally registered charity, the FCA is dedicated to the promotion and professional development of Canadian artists through education, exhibition and communication programs. Aiming to gradually raise the artists' standards by stimulating participants to greater heights of achievement, they opened what is believed to be the first completely artist-sponsored gallery-workshop-studio in Canada.

History of the FCA, by Ellen Poole

Sixty Years Later, by Ellen Poole