The Arcadia Club

Our Mission

The Arcadia Club is a social, non-commercial, politically unaffiliated, unincorporated members club established for the purposes of continuing the traditional activities of its predecessors, known in various historic periods as The Arcadian Commonwealth, The Arcadian National Conference, and The Arcadia Society.

The Arcadia Club promotes the idea of Jefferson’s “Republic of the Pacific” – call it the Columbia District, the Oregon Country, or Arcadia – they all coalesce together in the modern Cascadia.

The Arcadia Club honours and upholds the core principles of good food and drink and all things that promote conversational conviviality.

Finally, the Arcadia Club endeavours to provide necessary facilities for its Members to meet on a regular basis for social, recreational, and educational purposes.

Et Ego In Arcadia Vixi

There were hills which garnished their proud heights with stately trees; humble valleys whose base estate seemed comforted with refreshing of silver rivers; meadows enamelled with all sorts of eye-pleasing flowers; thickets, which, being lined with most pleasant shade, were witnessed so to by the cheerful deposition of many well-tuned birds; each pasture stored with sheep feeding with sober security, while the pretty lambs with bleating oratory craved the dams' comfort; here a shepherd's boy piping as though he should never be old; there a young shepherdess knitting and withal singing, and it seemed that her voice comforted her hands to work and her hands kept time to her voice's music.

As for the houses of the country - for many houses came under their eye - they were all scattered, no two being one by the other, and yet not so far off as that it barred mutual succour: a show, as it were, of an accompanable solitariness and of a civil wildness.

"The New Arcadia" by Sir Philip Sidney, 1580