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Bird
Studies Canada
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 Dr. George Francis |
George Francis is a Professor of Environment and Resource Studies at the University of Waterloo. Before coming to the U of W, he worked for the United Nations Development Program in New York, and the Canadian Council of Resource Ministers in Montréal. He has been a member of advisory committees to the International Joint Commission and the Great Lakes Fishery Commission. He has carried out project and program reviews for United Nations agencies throughout the world. He has also been an active volunteer for the Canadian national committee for the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Programme, where, as an advisor on biosphere reserves, he helped establish the Long Point World Biosphere Reserve. He was Chair of the Public Advisory Committee on the State of the Environment Reporting for Environment Canada and Statistics Canada, worked with the Canada Council on Ecological Areas, was a Director and member of the Executive Committee of the Nature Conservancy of Canada, and Chair of the Conservation Committee for the Laidlaw Foundation in Toronto. He has been keenly interested in natural history since his youth. George is the Chair of the BSC Board of Directors.
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 Dr. Ken Abraham |
Ken Abraham is Wetlands Wildlife Research Scientist with the
Wildlife & Natural Heritage Science Section of the Ontario Ministry of Natural
Resources. His previous positions with the OMNR were as Research Scientist and Coordinator
at the Centre for Northern Forest Ecosystem Research in Thunder Bay, as Regional Wildlife
Biologist in Cochrane, and as Regional Waterfowl Specialist in Moosenee. Before coming to
the OMNR in 1982, he worked for LGL Ltd., and MacLaren Plansearch, both environmental
consulting companies. His current research, working collaboratively with the University of
Toronto, the City College of New York, and the American Museum of Natural History, is on
birds and habitats of the Hudson Bay and James Bay lowlands, with a particular emphasis on
Lesser Snow Geese. He represents Ontario on the Arctic Goose Joint Venture Technical
Committee and the Mississippi (Waterfowl) Flyway Council Technical Section, and he sits on
the Long Point Waterfowl and Wetlands Research Fund Scientific Advisory Committee, and
chairs BSC's Long Point Bird Observatory Committee.
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 Dr.
Peter Blancher |
Peter Blancher is Chief of the Migratory Bird
Populations Division, National Wildlife Research Centre, Canadian Wildlife Service (CWS).
As such, he has responsibilities for the Canadian Bird Banding Office, the National
Harvest Survey, the Breeding Bird Survey in Canada, and research efforts on seabirds,
shorebirds, songbirds and waterfowl. Prior to this he was Coordinator of the CWS Acid Rain
program. Peter is the chair of BSC's National Council where he represents CWS. Peter is
also a Councillor for the Society of Canadian Ornithologists, a member of the National
Working Group of Partners in Flight Canada, involved locally in Goulbourn Township
environmental advisory work, and a past Board member of the North American Loon Fund. He
lives in Richmond, Ontario, southwest of Ottawa, and is a keen participant in volunteer
bird survey programs.
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 Robert Carswell
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Bob Carswell is a partner in the law firm of
Byers Casgrain in Montréal with special expertise in real estate and development. He is
Past Chair and Trustee of the Nature Conservancy of Canada, and Director and former
Chairman of Wildlife Habitat Canada. In Québec, he is the Director and former President
of the Province of Québec Society for the Protection of Birds, Inc., and Director and
Chairman of the St. Lawrence Valley Natural History Society. He is a founding member and
former Director of Regroupement des Organismes Propriétaires de Milieux Naturels
Protégés du Québec. Formerly, he was a Director of the Canadian Nature Federation, a
Member of the Ecological Reserves Advisory Board of the Province of Québec, and Director
and President of the Morgan Arboretum in Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Québec.
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 Robin Fraser |
Robin Fraser is a
lawyer and former partner in the law firm of Fraser & Beatty. As well as being
involved in community activities (President of both the local school board and the local
residents’ association) he has always been active in environmental organizations,
serving on the boards of the Algonquin Wildlands League, the Canadian Parks and Wilderness
Society (and was President) and the Nature Conservancy of Canada, of which he was
Chairman. He is also a Director of Artscape Inc. (a non-profit corporation helping artists
in Toronto), The Frederick Harris Music Co. Ltd. (a non-profit corporation publishing
music for music students and teachers), a member of the Advisory Board of the Canadian
Parks and Wilderness Society, a corporate fund raiser for the Huntingdon Society of
Canada, and recently retired from the Board of the Smile Theatre Company ( a non-profit
charity bringing theatre to the elderly and shut-ins)
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 Diane Griffin |
Diane Griffin is the Assistant Deputy Minister of the PEI Department of Technology & Environment. Her previous employment was as the Executive Director of the Island Nature Trust and as Natural Areas Co-ordinator in the Alberta Department of Forestry, Lands & Wildlife. She is past president of the Canadian Nature Federation, and has served on the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, and the Canadian Environmental Advisory Council, the Canadian national committee for the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Programme. As well, she has served on many boards including the Natural History Society of PEI, the Canadian Council on Ecological Areas, the Canadian Wildlife Federation, the Alberta Society of Professional Biologists, the Atlantic Society of Fish and Wildlife Biologists, and served as vice chair of Wildlife Habitat Canada. Diane is the Finance Chair for the Stratford Town Council and has served on the board of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Foundation and the Charlottetown Rotary Club.
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 Jac Joanisse |
Jac Joanisse is President of Joanisse Marketing Communications in
Montréal. His previous occupations include having been President and
General Manager of Joanisse Roberts Advertising in Montréal, Ian Roberts
Ross Roy Advertising in Toronto, District Sales Manager of The Financial
Post, Public Relations Manager of Imperial Life Assurance, and
Commissioned Officer in the Royal 22nd Regiment (the Van
Doos — the famed Québec regiment of
the Canadian Armed Forces). A keen birder, Jac is Director and Vice Chairman of the St.-Lawrence
Valley Natural History Society. Other directorships have included being
Chair of The Business Career Centre, Vice-Chair of UNICEF Québec and of
The Solcom Group Inc., and a Director of L'Association
des agences de publicité du Québec, Ian Roberts Communications, and Le
Conseil des agences de publicité du Québec.
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 David
Love |
David served on the Board of Long Point Bird Observatory from
1979-1984, and was Chair for 3 of those years. Until 1999, David was Vice
President of World Wildlife Fund Canada, responsible for coordinating all
fund raising and communications. When he joined in 1979, WWF had a staff
of 3 and a revenue budget of around $150,000. When he left in 1999, WWF
had a staff of 53 and a revenue target of $12.5 million. Now, David is
Principal Consultant for Stephen Thomas Consulting, a new division of
Stephen Thomas, Canada’s leading direct marketing firm specializing in
charitable organizations. Among David’s clients are Greenpeace, Amnesty
International, Canadian Nature Federation, a large public television
station, and Canada’s first shelter for women escaping from a violent
relationship. In his early days as a consultant, David has advised clients on planned
giving, major donor campaigns, major donor clubs, direct response
television, monthly giving programs and direct dialogue – among other
things. He revels in his new job, bringing skills and ideas developed in
over 30 years of raising money to some of Canada’s most worthy
organizations. Along the way, David has been meeting a host of
exceptionally talented people working hard to make the world a better
place. David leads a busy volunteer life and is presently on the board of the
West Park Hospital Foundation and the Sierra Legal Defense Fund. He lives
north of Toronto with his wife, one cat and two dogs. His outside
interests are classical music, kayaking, direct marketing and baseball.
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Jack Mackenzie is
President of J.P.S. Mackenzie Consultants, Investment Counsel. He sits on the collections
committee of the Royal Ontario Museum, and is the Past President and a current Director of
Artscape. Previously he served as the President or Chairman of the Toronto Arts Council,
the National Ballet, the Canadian Audubon Society (now the Canadian Nature Federation),
the Nature Conservancy of Canada, Heritage Canada Foundation, and the Shaw Festival, where
he managed the $6 million fund raising campaign to build the theatre. He has authored six
books on birds. He is a member of BSC’s Development and Headquarters Committees.
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 Gerald
McKeating |
Gerald McKeating is Regional
Director of the Canadian Wildlife Service and Environmental Conservation Branch, Prairie
and Northern Regions, Edmonton. Previously he worked as Executive Director of the
Federation of Ontario Naturalists, Non-game and Endangered Species Biologist for the
Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, and habitat biologist for the Ontario Region of the
Canadian Wildlife Service, where he developed the Habitat Management Plan for the Long
Point National Wildlife Area, and was instrumental in the reintroduction of Bald Eagles to
the lower Great Lakes. Currently, he chairs the Prairie Habitat Joint Venture, co-chairs
the Arctic Goose Joint Venture under the North American Waterfowl Management Plan, and is
the Canadian delegation head of the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna Working Group,
under the Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy.
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After two years military service in the Highland Light Infantry 1950-1952, Jim became a director of Denholm Ship Management, Glasgow, Scotland. In 1967 he came to Montreal to join Fednav Limited, the largest ocean-going shipping and chartering group based in Canada. He retired from Fednav, in 1996, but remains on the board. During his years at Fednav he served as Chairman of the Maritime Employers Association, the Shipping Federation of Canada, the U.K. Freight, Defence and Demurrage Association and the Liberian Shipowners Council. Since 1991 he has been Chairman of Le Bon Dieu dans la rue, a charity that has been caring for Montreal’s street kids since 1988. Dans la Rue provides food, short-term shelter for these children and operates The Day Centre, Chez Pops where street kids have access to health care, counselling, work programmes and job training. Since earlier this year, Jim has been chairman of the St. Lawrence Valley Natural History Society, which runs the Ecomuseum in Ste-Anne de Bellevue, near Montreal.
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 Dr.
Kathy Pickard |
Kathy Pickard, an optometrist, is a native of
Simcoe, Ontario, where she still works. She is a longtime member of the Norfolk Field
Naturalists, serving on its executive for 8 years. She has also been a member of the Board
of Directors of the College of Optometrists of Ontario, again serving on various
committees, for 18 years. An avid birder for close to 20 years, she has been a volunteer
bird-bander since 1980. Captivated by Long Point, which is minutes from her home in Port
Ryerse, her hobbies are photography, collecting art, reading and listening.
Kathy is
the past Chair of the BSC Board of Directors.
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 Lorne
Scott |
Lorne
Scott is a farmer at Indian Head, Saskatchewan. Lorne was elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly with the
Government of Saskatchewan in 1991, a position he held until 1999. From 1995 to 1999, Lorne served as Minister of Environment and
Resource Management for the Province of Saskatchewan. Prior to becoming an MLA, Lorne worked as Park Naturalist at
Wascana Centre Authority in Regina and spent several years working at the
Saskatchewan Museum of Natural History in Regina.
Lorne has served as President of
the Whooping Crane Conservation Association since 1994 and is Past
President of the Saskatchewan Natural History Society and the Saskatchewan
Wildlife Federation. As well,
Lorne has served on the boards of the Canadian Nature Federation, the
Canadian Wildlife Federation, World Wildlife Fund Canada and the North
American Bluebird Society.
Over the past 25 years Lorne has
worked to preserve over 200 acres of natural habitat on his farm at Indian
Head. In the same time period
he has set out more than 2,000 Bluebird Nest Boxes, banded more than
26,000 birds and taken more than 15,000 wildlife and natural history
slides.
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 Barbara
Sullivan |
Barbara Sullivan is the Managing Director of the Cheltenham Group,
a firm specializing in strategic and public affairs management, and Director of
Development for McMaster University’s Centre for Health, Economics and Policy
Analysis. She served for 8 years as MPP for Halton Centre, during which time she was the
opposition critic for health and the environment, chaired caucus and select committees on
energy, and was a member of the Board of Internal Economy. She was also chief of staff to
the Treasurer of Ontario, president of a public relations and marketing agency, and a
working journalist. She has been Chair of the Oakville Centre for Performing Arts, Ontario
Director for Parks Canada Centennial activities, and Acting Chair of the Ontario
Commission on Election Finances. Currently, she is a Director of the Lowville Area
Residents’ Association, Director of the Oaklands Regional Centre for Developmentally
Disabled, a member of the Advisory Council for the Toronto East General Hospital and a
member of BSC’s Development Committee. She also writes a regular column on Ontario
affairs for the Canadian Association of Retired Persons News.
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 Doug
Thomas |
Doug Thomas is an Investment Counsel, and a retired Managing Partner of AMI Partners, Inc., an investment counsel firm which manages approximately $7 billion in pension, foundation, insurance and private capital. He is past President of the Investment Counsel Association of Ontario, past President of the Federation of Ontario Naturalists, former Director of the Ontario Heritage Foundation and former member of the Economic Council of Canada. He is also an active fund raiser for many causes, including political candidates. |
Jack
Mackenzie
James
S. Murray