Welcome to AA Hamilton Interdistrict Archives website page.

Hamilton Interdistrict Archives Committee is a part of, and serves AA Hamilton Districts10 and 21 on the AA Hamilton Interdistrict Structure. 

"We are trying to build up extensive records which will be of value to a future historian...

“It is highly important that the factual material be placed in our files in such a way that there be no substantial distortion...

“We want to keep enlarging on this idea for the sake of full length history to come...”

Bill W., 1957

Mission

The mission of the Hamilton Archives of Alcoholics Anonymous is to document permanently the work of Alcoholics Anonymous to make the history of the organization accessible to AA members and other researchers, and to provide a context for understanding AA's progression, principles and traditions.

The Hamilton ID Archives guidelines will in no way supersede the guidelines set out in the GSO Archive Workbook and the GSO guidelines.

Purpose

Consistent with AA’s primary purpose of maintaining our sobriety and helping other alcoholics achieve sobriety, Hamilton ID Archives of Alcoholics Anonymous will:

● Receive, classify and index all relevant material, such as administrative files and records, correspondence and literary works, artifacts and works considered to be of historical import to Alcoholics Anonymous;

● Hold and preserve such material;

● Provide access to these materials as determined by the archivist in consultation with the committee, contingent upon a commitment to preserve the anonymity of our members;

● Serve as a resource and laboratory to stimulate and nourish learning;

● Provide knowledge and understanding of the origins, goals, and program ofAlcoholics Anonymous.

Adopted October 30, 2006

by GSB of Alcoholics Anonymous