sentences:  (Bill) Broad, the last president of the CSA, was chosen as the first president of the new union at its founding convention held November 18–20, 1976, at the Chateau Lacombe Hotel in Edmonton.Convention decisions, however, still had to be approved by government, as the union operated under the Societies Act.This changed on November 17, 1977, when AUPE met to change its status into an unincorporated trade union.