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EARTH DAY SPECIAL EVENT
Speaker: Dr. Alan MacEachern (http://history.uwo.ca/People/Faculty/MacEachern.html)
Celebrate Earth Day and 150 years in 2017 – Keynote address by Dr Alan MacEachern, Environmental Historian.
The Dominion of Nature: Canadians’ Attitudes & Actions toward the Environment, 1867-2017
At Confederation in 1867, what did Canadians think of the nature of the new nation? How have our ideas about nature evolved over the past century and a half – in part because we have had access to so much of it? Alan MacEachern, Professor at the University of Western Ontario, will present this lively, visual history in honour of Earth Day and Canada’s sesquicentennial.
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OSFN Indoor Meetings are normally held on the second Thursday of the month at 7:00 p.m. at the Bayshore Community Centre, 1900 3rd Ave E Owen Sound. There are no Indoor Meetings in July and August. Please see the individual event listings below for more details.
We invite speakers with a wide range of expertise from Grey/Bruce and other parts of the province. These evenings are open to the public. The auditorium is open by 6:30. The meeting gets under way at 7:00, and may include brief announcements by other organizations as well as OSFN club activities, club business, social time, nature sightings and reports.
The club also offers a full schedule of outdoor activities during the year. Through these outings, members learn more about the birds, plants, mammals and geology of this part of Ontario. We also keep a protective eye on our precious natural areas.