Expanded News Briefs

December 30, 2005

How to Become a CCFMS Member Club

Information has been posted on how you can make your club a member club of the CCFMS. Now available in English and French languages

December 5, 2005

New Website Additions

To help promote the exchange of information among all rockhounds, the CCFMS has recently added a couple pages that should foster such an exchange of information.

Check out the Email Distribution List Page and learn how to receive information about your favourite hobby or profession via email.

Or, check out a listing of Other Club Websites to see what other clubs in Canada and the United States are up to, including field trip information and online newsletters.

October 28, 2005

Fall CCFMS NEWS is Released

The CCFMS is proud to announce that another issue of the CCFMS NEWS has just been released. Copies of the Fall 2005 issue can be downloaded from the CCFMS NEWS page

Any submissions to the CCFMS NEWS should be addressed to the editor at <editor @ ccfms.ca>

April 15, 2005

CCFMS Welcomes Two New Clubs to the Federation

Two new clubs were ratified at the April 3 AGM of CCFMS. Please help us welcome Club de minéralogie de Fermont and Club de minéralogie du Saguenay Lac Saint-Jean to the CCFMS.

Club de minéralogie de Fermont meets the 2^nd Thursday and 3^rd Tuesday of each month (except June - September) 19:00 to 21:00 at the Centre d'Interprétation de Fermont Place D'Aviault, Fermont, Québec. Its focus is on fields trips, mineral identification and exchange, lectures, museum involvement, mineral collection. The club contact is Denis Parent mineralogie_fermont@hotmail.com and their mail address is:c/o PO Box 327, Fermont, Québec, G0G 1J0

Club de minéralogie du Saguenay Lac Saint-Jean meets the 2^ndTuesday of the month at 19h Université du Québec à Chicoutimi room P2-3080. Its focus is on monthly meetings (talk on either a mineral, a locality, a mineralogical phenomenon, a technique, etc.) and field trips. The club contact is Paul Bedard, pbedard@uqac.ca The mailing address is: c/o Paul Bédard, Sciences de la Terre, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 555 boul. Université Chicoutimi, Québec, G7H 2B1 and the website is located at wwwdsa.uqac.ca/~pbedard/mineralo.html