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History On August 3, 1915 in the Assembly Hall of The Normal College, Truro, Nova Scotia a meeting, spearheaded by Mr. W.H. Brittain, was held to organize a society to be known as the Nova Scotia Entomological Society to constitute a branch of the Ontario Entomological Society. The Society took form at a time when concern about an introduced insect, the brown-tail moth, was at its peak. In 1921, the name was changed to the Acadian Entomological Society, and the first meeting outside Nova Scotia held in Saint John, New Brunswick. It was hoped that this change would attract members from wider areas. After the Second World War the ranks of professional entomologists in Canada as a whole began to swell. Many felt the need for a truly national society to speak for so widely separated a group. This became a reality in 1950 when the Ontario Entomological Society relinquished its unique editorship of The Canadian Entomologist, the official organ of entomology in Canada, and The Entomological Society of Canada came into being. It was decided that regional societies would become affiliates. The Acadian Entomological Society expanded its membership to all interested entomologists in the four Atlantic Provinces and Maine. Highlighted from an article by Jean Adams - ‘A History of the Acadian Entomological Society on its 50th Anniversary ’. The Atlantic Advocate, August 1965. |
Executive 2007-2008 |
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PRESIDENT |
PAST PRESIDENT
Kenna MacKenzie Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada 32 Main St. Kentville, NS B4N 1J5 mackenziek@agr.gc.ca |
REGIONAL DIRECTOR TO THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CANADA |
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VICE-PRESIDENT |
SECRETARY/TREASURER |
MEMBER-AT-LARGE |
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JOURNAL EDITOR |
WEBMASTER | Bylaws of the Acadian Entomological Society | |