The history of an organization is necessarily a story about people, since an organization is empty and formless until people and their work give it life and meaning. So this is the story of the worthy efforts of a courageous, dedicated Toronto group of retired people to im-prove the living standard of Canada's senior citizens whose purchasing power has been greatly reduced by inflation.

These retirees from business and professional fields viewed with alarm the rapidly decreasing value of the dollar. This and ever-increasing property and income taxes posed a serious threat to the retirement future for which they had worked, planned and saved. They knew others were in the same situation. So after extensive research and thorough investigation of pensioners' problems, they decided to take action.

Pensioners Concerned Canada (PCC) - as Canadian Pensioners Concerned (CPC) was called then - began as a group of three people but has grown into a national organization with branches from coast to coast.

In every sense of the word, this was a pioneering effort, breaking new ground, treading paths never trod before. Never before had there been a senior citizens' organization whose main purpose was educating governments for a better pension income for seniors.