Acadian Entomological Society

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 2011-2012
	PRESIDENT Gaetan Moreau Université de Moncton - Pavillon Rémi-Rossignol 18, avenue Antonine-Maillet Moncton, NB Canada E1A 3E9 email	PAST PRESIDENT Christine Noronha Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada 440 University Avenue Charlottetown, PEI, C1A 4N6 email	REGIONAL DIRECTOR TO THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CANADA Carolyn Parsons Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Box 39088, St. John's, NL, A1E 5Y7 Tel 709-772-5640 email
	VICE-PRESIDENT Chris Cutler Dept. Environmental Science Nova Scotia Agriculture College Truro, NS B2N 5E3 CANADA email	JAM 2011 CO-CHAIR Kirk Hillier Dept. of Biology, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS B4P 2R6 Tel, 902-585-1314 email	JAM 2011 CO-CHAIR Chris Cutler Dept. Environmental Science Nova Scotia Agriculture College Truro, NS B2N 5E3 CANADA email
	SECRETARY - TREASURER Rob Johns Atlantic Forestry Centre P.O. Box 4000 1350 Regent Street South Fredericton, NB E3B 5P7 email	JOURNAL EDITOR Don Ostaff 125 Phillips Drive New Maryland, NB E3C 1E6 (506) 457-2377 email	WEBMASTER / DIRECTOR-at-LARGE Rick West 31 Drovers Heights Portugal Cove-St. Philips NL A1M 3G6 email
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