Its membership categories include active, affiliate, associate, and composer-in-training.
The records were held by the ACWC Archivist until 2011, when they were donated to The Banff Centre Archives.
Records concern the administration of the Association itself, public activities and initiatives intended to provide support for Canadian women composers.
[2] The association was founded in 1980 by Carolyn Lomax (writer and broadcaster), Ann Southam, Mary Gardiner, and Maggie Burstyn.
[1][3] In 2002 Ann Southam, Mary Gardiner, Rhené Jaque, and Anita Sleeman became Honorary Life Members of the ACWC.