Organisation formed in the United States to connect people of Manx descent across North America.

R. H. Kinvig’s 1955 study of Manx settlement in the United States states that the Association was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1928. It celebrated its silver jubilee at a Cleveland convention in 1953.

Membership reached about one thousand in 1950. Kinvig used the Association’s membership records to map the distribution of people of Manx origin across the United States. Ohio had more than 300 members, with Cleveland as the principal centre. Illinois had more than 100, followed by California, New York, Michigan and Washington, with smaller concentrations in mining and industrial districts across the country.

The Association held annual conventions apart from the interruption of the Second World War and issued a quarterly bulletin. By the early 1950s branches existed in several regions, including north-east Ohio, Los Angeles, San Francisco and the mining district around Bisbee in Arizona.

Its meetings retained visible connections with the Island. Kinvig recorded the Manx flag being displayed alongside the flags of the United States and Canada, and “Ellan Vannin” and “O Land of our Birth” being sung with the American and Canadian national anthems.

The wider North American Manx community also maintained cultural links through organised homecomings and the Cleveland Medal, established from a fund raised in 1923 and awarded at the Manx Musical Festival.