[2] The organizing and advocacy work of the CBWC has focused on "such issues as health, housing, racism, education, immigration, criminal law, police-community relations and child development.
"[3] The Congress of Black Women of Canada (CBWC) was formed in 1973 in Toronto with Kathleen "Kay" Livingstone as Chair.
The Toronto Regional Chapter's second issue of publication, Speak Out, stated that: "the cactus is a plant symbolic of the strengths and resilience of Black women.
The CBWC incorporated as a registered non-profit organisation in 1980 at their fifth conference in Winnipeg, and the constitution was ratified and a National Executive Council was elected.
"[9] The discussion surrounding a woman's movement, REAL Women, that opposed "equal pay and favouring to return to traditional family values.
"[27] The Brampton Regional Chapter was established in 1989 by Claudia Russell-Placenia, Silvilyn Holt, Jacqueline Maloney, and Veronica Lee Edwards.
[24] The Congress has evolved in numerous ways since its conception in 1973, and so with the establishment of new Chapters came the end to ones formerly known as the Durham, Oakville, Toronto and North York.