THE CANADIAN QUATERNARY ASSOCIATION
The Canadian Quaternary Association held its biennial meeting as a co-sponsored event with the CGRG in St. Johns, Newfoundland in early June with a high attendance of over 200 participants and sold-out field trips. Profits from this successful meeting will be funneled back to Newfoundland to sponsor graduate student membership in CANQUA and financially supporting a Geoscience Education initiative in Newfoundland.
Executive approved funding of $2000 by the Association for reprinting the educational geoscience brochure Planning and Managing the Human Environment: The Essential Role of the Geosciences originally produced by IUGS COGEOENVIRONMENT. The brochure is available to all members of CANQUA.
Executive councillor Wes Blake was very active as the CANQUA representative in CNC-INQUA, attending several meetings on behalf of the organization. CANQUA provided financial support for a few of the official delegates attending INQUA in Berlin. Executive councillor Dana Naldrett represented the Association at the CGC meetings.
The Quaternary listserve, managed by executive councillor Dave Liverman continued to expand, now supporting some 100 subscribers from some 25 countries. Brief articles summarizing the objectives and structure of CANQUA appeared in the Canadian Archaeological Newsletter and the Canadian Water Resources Association Newsletter to encourage broader participation in our body. Executive councillors Alwynne Beaudoin and Naldrett began organization of a CANQUA sponsored session for the annual meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers to be held in May 1996 in Saskatoon.
The next biennial meeting of CANQUA will be held in Québec, most likely Montréal sometime in 1997. Membership is currently on the rise and distribution of the official CANQUA journal Géographie Physique et Quaternaire continues to perform well. A new editorial team for the CANQUA Newsletter was instated in Edmonton, Alberta to be run by Ian Campbell.
Peter Bobrowsky