central ontario type not for profit industry automotive services headquarters thornhill ontario canada parent canadian automobile association website www.caasco.com caa south central ontario is an affiliated club of the canadian automobile association caa in the province of ontario canada . it is a not for profit organization with its head office located in thornhill . caa south central ontario primarily provides roadside assistance auto property & travel insurance services as well as leisure travel services to its members across southern and central ontario and including sault ste. marie . history edit the toronto automobile club was founded on may 4 1903 . 1 by this time like minded motorists were forming their own clubs throughout ontario to exchange and share information about their vehicles . in 1907 the toronto automobile club and clubs representing hamilton ottawa and kingston formed the ontario motor league oml with the purpose of helping automobile owners to lobby governments as opposition to the automobile was extensive at the time . it had a paid membership from the various clubs of 170 active and 56 associate individual members . the oml set up various committees such as the legislative and good roads committee and also started a touring bureau which informed members where they could drive without getting mired in mud and which hotels would provide gas and water . new automobile clubs sprang up across ontario amalgamating in time with others but still using the oml as a unifying organization to represent motorists to the government of ontario . over time the names of both the individual clubs and the oml changed . by 1996 the old toronto automobile club was known as caa central ontario and the oml as caa ontario which still exists as a formal organization to help represent the remaining clubs to the government of ontario . in 2005 after mergers with caa eastern ontario caa peterborough caa windsor caa mid western ontario and the former caa south central ontario hamilton and region caa central ontario took the name caa south central ontario . it has over 2 million members and covers the entire province except for the niagara region caa niagara and the far north and eastern including ottawa regions of the province caa north and east ontario . 2 locations edit caa south central ontario covers the city of toronto and the following areas in ontario districts of algoma and muskoka counties of bruce dufferin elgin essex frontenac grey haliburton hastings huron lambton leeds and grenville lennox and addington middlesex northumberland oxford perth peterborough prince edward simcoe wellington and city of kawartha lakes regional municipalities of brant county chatham kent durham haldimand norfolk halton hamilton wentworth peel waterloo and york . references edit filey mike 2006 . toronto sketches 9 . toronto ont . dundurn group . p. 73 . isbn 9781550026139 . more than 100 years of history . caa overview . caa south central ontario . retrieved 9 august 2012 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title caa south central ontario & oldid 731402294 categories non profit organizations based in canadaautomobile associations in canadamotor clubs navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 25 july 2016 at 04 07 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view