CUFF

The Canadian Unity Fan Fund was inspired by TAFF and other similar fan funds to promote unity and foster personal communication between fans of the Western and Eastern regions of Canada. The boundary is defined by the Ontario/Manitoba border. Since 1988, the sponsored trip has usually been to 'Canvention,' where the Auroras (formerly Caspers) are handed out, which is effectively the Canadian national convention. Bob Webber started the fund in 1981, but it didn’t arise again till the late ’80s.

In January 2025 an announcement posted to File 770 and presumably elsewhere in which administrator Garth Spencer said that after encountering a general lack of interest he was giving up: 'If fans in Canada just don’t know or care what a fan fund is, there is not much point in doing this anymore.'

• ...Off the CUFF, Taral Wayne's history of the fund
• 'I'm Giving Up' by Garth Spencer at file770.com.

Year	Winner	Trip Report / Notes
1981	Michael Hall	"The First Canadian Unity Fan Fund Trip Report"; attended Torque 2.
1987		insufficient nominees
1988	Taral Wayne
1989	Robert Runte
1990	Paul Valcour
1992	Linda Ross-Mansfield
1996	Rene Walling
1997	R. Graeme Cameron	"A Typical C.U.F.F (Canadian Unity Fan Fund) Trip Report"
1998	Lloyd & Yvonne Penney	Penneys Up the River and other CUFF stories
1999	Garth Spencer
2000	Sherry Neufeld
2001	Murray Moore	A Trip Report Found in a Plain Manila Envelope
2002	Colin Hinz
2003	Lyndie S. Bright
2004		no CUFF delegate
2005	Brian Davis
2007	Peter Jarvis
2008	Lance Sibley
2009	LeAmber Kensley
2010	Diane Lacey
2011	Kent Pollard
2012	Debra Yeung
2013		insufficient nominees
2014	Travers Milo	was unable to attend the Canvention, VCON 39
2015	Paul Carreau
2017		no CUFF delegate
2018		insufficient nominees
2019	Fran Skene
2023	Garth Spencer

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1981—2025

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