Maritimes

About this Region

A group of PNA pioneers established the Maritime Region of the new CBC Pensioners National Association in Halifax in the fall of 2000 and they started meeting monthly for lunch (and a few beers) to plan the way forward. The Moncton chapter goes back to the beginning too.

Enthusiasm was so great on the east coast that chapters followed in Charlottetown (PEI) and Sydney (Cape Breton), and a substantial majority of all retirees in the region signed up. In 2022 a western New Brunswick chapter completed the regional makeup with bases in Saint John and Fredericton. Today the region continues to flourish.

Members gather in the region’s centres at various times during the year to meet, greet, eat and support each other and the work of the association.

The regional board which consists of an executive, chapter presidents, and other directors meets virtually at least nine times a year.

Early beginnings:

A group of former CBC employees in Halifax, who were dissatisfied with issues like health care for retirees, met to consider forming an association starting in the 1990s. They made Floyd Eisan their first president (Floyd later became the first national president for a brief time) and started to plot the future.

The spark that created a national association was news of a surplus in the pension fund. The fight to get a share of the surplus for pensioners was led by people like Jack Brownell, Jack Ingram and John McKay in Halifax, soon joined by Neil d’Entremont in Moncton, where people had already formed their own group. The first national convention was held in June of 2000 and the rest is pension surplus history!