The United Federation of Canadian Star Trekkers

Fan Club
Name:	The United Federation of Canadian Star Trekkers
Dates:	mid-1970s - mid-1980s
Founder(s):	Cat Middlemiss
Leadership:
Country based in:	Canada
Focus:	Star Trek
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United Federation of Canadian Star Trekkers was a Star Trek fan club based in Victoria and founded after Cat Middlemiss left the SF Association of Victoria. Fans say that Cat took most of the club's possessions, including their treasury, and left with no warning.

In August 1977, I moved from Orillia, Ontario to Victoria, and soon saw a notice of a Trek club starting up. This was the United Federation of Canadian Star Trekkers, founded by Cat Middlemiss, Dan Cawsey, and Tony Sine. I was one of their first members, and for a while we had a great time partying, gathering for workshops, working on various projects, and staging mall displays and shows. There were plans to get to at least one VCon, usually foiled for lack of money. The club suddenly found that Cat and his wife Lois had disappeared, absconding with most of the club's possessions and its treasury, which had several hundred dollars in it. Lois had some medical problems, and Cat was a struggling artist with a slick tongue, so we weren't too surprised to find them and the money gone. The club staggered on anyway. We later discovered that Cat was no artist at all, but was claiming the products of his younger brother as his own. However, those days of finding out about fandom were amongst the happiest of my life. I finally had some friends with a common interest, like Cat, Dan, Tony, Joanne van Heteren, Stephanie Lightbody, Pat Kilner, Paul Delaney, and Lynne Fonseca. Paul was at one time the second-in-command of both the UFCST and SFAV.

Lloyd Penney

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