It ran along the lines of the American National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, and its first president was Anne Greenup.
It provided support to new mothers, clothes for new arrivals from the West Indies and America, soup kitchens, a black history library, and a burial ground at Mount Royal Cemetery.
In educating on the black diaspora in Canada, the Club organises tours including tracing routes on the Underground Railroad.
[3] The Club's women provided support to new mothers, clothes for new arrivals from the West Indies and America, soup kitchens, a black history library, and they organised a burial ground at Mount Royal Cemetery.
[2][6] In educating on the black diaspora in Canada, the Club organises tours to southern Ontario, Nova Scotia and the United States, tracing routes on the Underground Railroad.
[2][5] In 2000, at the opening of the "Centennial Rose Garden" at Rideau Hall, Ottawa, a bench inscribed in honour of the Club was included.