The British Association for Canadian Studies (BACS) is a membership-based academic association that is also a registered UK charity.
[1] BACS was founded in 1975 in order to promote Canadian studies in the United Kingdom.
[2] Along with the establishment of the Academic Relations Unit at the Canada House, it significantly helped the growth of Canadia Studies in the UK in the 1970s.
[2] The organization has 400 members as of somewhere around 2016, and holds an annual conference attended by around 150 academics and postgraduate students each year.
[2] It contains seven specialist groups for academics, on aboriginal studies, economics, architecture, literature, law, and Quebec as well as a resources group.