1) The document invites participants to help build a mosaic table celebrating Canadian diversity and unity by contributing stories about their experiences with the YMCA. 2) The table will be crafted by award-winning artisans using stories submitted by volunteers, staff, partners, and community members. 3) Upon completion, the mosaic table comprised of 53 pieces representing the 53 YMCA associations will be unveiled at the 2011 annual general meeting.

1. A Table for Canada’s YMCA A Mosaic Project

2. An Invitation to Build a Table To celebrate our diversity and our unity To tell the stories that reveal who we are and what matters to us To remember why we’re proud to be Canada’s YMCA

3. Inspired by Voyageur

4. A Table Made from Everyday Stories Ordinary people who prove that everyone can make extraordinary contributions Stories that belong to: volunteer and staff members participants international partners community members

5. A Table Made by Hand The Brothers Dressler Award-winning craftsmen who specialize in creating modern furniture from old materials

6. A Table Made with Help Jowi Taylor and Six String Nation An experienced guide for a national mosaic project

7. A Table Made by All of Us 53 Associations (and friends) 53 pieces (or more) 1 table in 1 year unveiled at the 2011 AGM

8. A Table Made of Stories like this One … “In the room that night, seated in rows of folding chairs, were some thirty young people, mostly in their late teens, obviously labourers, members of a discussion group that met weekly, often to hear a speaker. At the front of the room, seated at a plain wooden table, was the group’s organizer, a man not much older than the members themselves, with straight strong features and with eyes that were clear and blue, a YMCA worker named Murray Ross. He welcomed the members …” ~ Kenneth Bagnell from The Little Immigrants: The Orphans Who Came to Canada 1860s – 1930s (1980)

9. The Story of Canada’s YMCA The last history was written in 1951 by Murray Ross, the YMCA youth worker who would go on to become a national YMCA staff member, and the first President of York University in Toronto The next history will be written by …