ONTARIO CHAPTER
HISTORY
Although the American Fisheries Society has been in existence since 1870, chapters were not established as subunits of the parent society until 1962. The Southern Ontario Chapter was formed in 1988. Henk Rietveld submitted the Southern Ontario petition at the 118th Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society, in Toronto, ON on September 14, 1988. The petition was unanimously accepted and an interim slate of executives were elected. The chapter was officially chartered on September 22, 1988.
The 1st Annual Meeting of the chapter was held was held April 8, 1989 at the Leslie M. Frost Centre in Dorset, Ontario. The keynote speaker was Bob White, President of the American Fisheries Society.
At the 2004 Annual Meeting, the chapter voted to change its name to the Ontario Chapter and adopt a new logo. This change in identity would effectively remove any perceived barriers between fisheries professionals all across Ontario, and provide the foundation for one strong organization.
In March 2007, official status for the Student Subunit of the Ontario Chapter was granted and all student members of the chapter became members of the newly created subunit. Creation of the subunit was initiated and achieved largely due to the efforts of Lynn Bouvier.
During August 2008, the Ontario Chapter hosted the 138th American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting in Ottawa.
Bill Gardner has agreed to undertake the task of collecting historical information to put together a detailed history of the chapter. There is a brief history in the old AFS-SOC Chapter Handbook, but we would like to expand this history to include things such as initiatives that the chapter has been involved with (i.e., F.I.S.H.), membership trends, photos and AGM memories (past student winners, programs, etc.).
If you have any old photos, newsletters, stories or memories of the southern or northwestern Ontario chapters, and would like to have them included in our history, or if you have ideas about how our history can be presented, please contact history@afs-oc.org.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES
ANNUAL MEETINGS
HISTORICAL NEWSLETTERS
Volume 1 Number 1 - November 1988 (163 kb)
Volume 1 Number 2 - February 1989 (402 kb)
Volume 1 Number 3 - March 1989 (570 kb)
Volume 2 Number 1 - August 1989 (662 kb)
Volume 2 Number 2 - November 1989 (906 kb)
Volume 3 Number 1 - March 1990 (824 kb)
2009
Volume 3 Number 2 - June 1990 (633 kb)
Volume 3 Number 3 - October 1990 (857 kb)
Volume 4 Number 1 - April 1991 (970 kb)
Volume 4 Number 2 - November 1991 (929 kb)
Volume 5 Number 1 - September 1992 (846 kb)
STUDENT SUBUNIT EXECUTIVE
Volume 6 Number 1 - June 1993 (555 kb)
Volume 6 Number 2 - November 1993 (351 kb)
Volume 7 Number 1 - January 1994 (500 kb)
Volume 7 Number 2 - May 1994 (644 kb)
Chapter Handbook - October 1995 (704 kb)
Volume 8 Number 2 - January 1996 (819 kb)
Volume 8 Number 3 - November 1996 (838 kb)
Volume 9 Number 1 - May 1997 (1.32 Mb)
Volume 9 Number 1 - May 1999 (704 kb)
Last update: 12 June, 2010