The Canadian Galloway Association is the national governing body responsible for Breed Improvement, Breed Advancement, and Breed Promotion.

The Association promotes and regulates the breeding of Galloways, Belted Galloways and White Galloways as three separate breeds in three separate sections of the same herd book.

All three breeds come in black, dun or red. Each breed is registered in a separate section of the Canadian Galloway Herd Book. The Galloway section of the Canadian Herd Book is the oldest continuously closed Galloway herd book in the world.