1976 - The Canadian Armwrestling Association was founded by John Miazdzyk and Borden Letawsky.
1978 - Miazdzyk is one of the founding members of the World Armwrestling Federation.
1979 - John Miazdzyk hosts the first WAWF World Championship in Wetaskwin, Alberta with four countries in attendance: Canada, U.S.A, Brazil and India
- Fred Roy becomes Vice-President of the western provinces
1988 - Cathy Morrison becomes Secretary/Treasurer
1989 - John Miazdzyk passes away at the age of 40
- Fred Roy becomes President
- An annual award is given out in John's memory, Miles Wolko is the first recipient
1990 - Lise Blanchard becomes Co-Secretary/Treasurer with Cathy Morrison
1991 - Rick Blanchard becomes Vice-President of the eastern provinces
1992 - Lise Blanchard becomes sole Secretary/Treasurer
- The first CAWF Referee Clinic is held. It became an annual test for Canadian referees
1993 - Keith Koenig becomes Vice-President of the western provinces
- Rick Pinkney becomes Referee-in-chief
- Canada hosts the WAF World Championship in Edmonton, Alberta run by Cathy Morrison and Ron Highet
- CAWA changes to CAWF
- An agreement is made to have one nationals a year instead of one in the east and one in the west
1998 - Fred Roy becomes President of the World Armwrestling Federation
- Canada hosts the WAF World Championship in Thunder Bay, Ontario run by Paul Levesque
2003 - Canada hosts the WAF World Championship in Ottawa, Ontario run by Rick and Lise Blanchard
2006 - Ryan Espey becomes Vice-President of the western provinces and Joey Costello becomes Vice-President of the eastern provinces
2007 - CAWF Hall of Fame is created
2008 - The first five inductees into the CAWF Hall of Fame are, John Miazdzyk, Fred Salvadore, Fred Roy, Dave Hicks and Barb Zalepa
- Canada hosts the WAF World Championship in Kelowna, B.C. run by Keith Koenig
2011 - Anthony Dall'Antonia becomes Director of Communications
2013 - Rick Pinkney becomes President
- Ryan Espey becomes Vice-President
- Tracey Arnold becomes Secretary/Treasurer
- Patrick Callan becomes Referee-in-chief
2016 - Joey Costello becomes Vice-President
- Dave Campbell becomes Referee-in-chief
- Patrick Callan becomes Assistant Referee-in-chief
2019 - The International Federation of Armwrestling is formed and Canada votes to join the IFA. This year Canada sends a team to both World Championships. (WAF Worlds in Romania and IFA Worlds in Poland)
2020 - For the first time, there is no National Championship as a result of the Covid-19 virus. Also all provinces postpone or cancel their Provincial Championship. Our AGM is done online.
- Ryan Espey becomes Vice-President
- Vivian Santos becomes Secretary/Treasurer
2021 - This is the second year of no National Championship as a result of the Covid-19 virus. Also all provinces postpone or cancel their Provincial Championship. Our AGM is done online.
- The Ethics Advisory Committee is created by Chantal Leduc with the help of Tracey Arnold
2022 - Nationals are back, hosted in Winnipeg by Darrell Steffensen. A new record is set with 574 entries.
2023 - Canada votes to rejoin WAF and have our Nationals as the qualifier for WAF Worlds.
- Ryan Espey becomes President
- Tracey Arnold becomes Vice-President
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