Each member group negotiates its unique agreement with AABC by communicating in writing with the provincial Membership Secretary. The first Association for Bright Children in Canada began in Toronto, Ontario in 1974 as a non-profit advocacy group of educators and parents. In 1979, a group called Parents for the Education of the Gifted was organized in Calgary, Alberta in support of an identification and programming initiative of the Calgary Board of Education. Six months later, an Edmonton advocacy group formed a chapter of the Ontario ABC in response to dissatisfaction with the provisions for gifted children in the schools. Many similar chapters subsequently started up throughout Alberta and in 1983, AABC was incorporated as a provincial umbrella group.
Similar organizations exist in most provinces.
In Alberta, in addition to the provincial executive, AABC chapters are active in Calgary and Edmonton and network groups operate in Drumheller, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, Red Deer, and St. Albert.