Sierra Club Canada (SCC) is a Canadian, volunteer-based environmental organization. It is part of the environmental movement.
The roots of Sierra Club Canada go back to 1963, when environmentalists in British Columbia affiliated themselves with the Sierra Club of the United States (many of these individuals were prominent in the founding of Greenpeace). Sierra Club Canada became a pan-Canadian organization in 1989, and was legally incorporated as a Canadian organization in 1992.
As of 2010 it has approximately 10,000 members and supporters. Its main office is in Ottawa.
Read more about Sierra Club Canada: Organization, Executive Directors, Affiliates and Subsidiaries, Successes, ITER Project
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