About The Section
The Ottawa Valley Section (OVS) members are forest practitioners from Eastern Ontario and Western Québec. There are also members from New York State.
We deliver on our 3 objectives through events, field trips, AGM exchanges among members and monthly meetings of the OVS Council.
In partnership with CIF National, the OVS co-hosted the 2017 National AGM to celebrate Canada’s sesquicentennial 2017 Annual General Meeting and Conference. The Section was recognized for their efforts by awarding the Co-chairs (George Bruemmer and Jim Farrell) Outstanding Volunteer Awards in 2018.
Click here to read about our 2023 AGM that took place on July 11, 2023. Stay tuned for 2024!
The Ottawa Valley Section is in an area of great significance for indigenous peoples partly due to it being situated at the confluences of the Ottawa, Gatineau and Rideau Rivers. This includes the unceded territories of the Algonquin people (including nine separate communities in Québec) and to the east and south, the Mohawks, (including the communities of Akwasasne and Tyendinaga in Ontario) part of the Six Nation Confederacy.
In Ontario: The United Counties of Leeds and Grenville; Lanark County, The United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry; The United Counties of Prescott & Russell; County of Frontenac; the southern portion of the County of Renfrew and the City of Ottawa.
In Québec: The Outaouais Administrative Region, the Regional County Municipality of Argenteuil and the City of Gatineau and, as revised from time to time by the National Board of Directors of the Institute. Neighbouring Sections include Southern Ontario and Central Ontario to the west and Algonquin Section and Orléans Section to the north and east.
| POSITION | NAME |
| Chair | Ken Farr (Ken.Farr@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca) |
| Director | Jim Farrell (jim.farrell@rogers.com) |
| Treasurer | Kathryn Buchanan |
| Secretary | Joseph Anawati |
| Councillors | Ed Banfield (treenewf@gmail.com) |
| George Bruemmer | |
| Mike Rosen | |
| Roxanne Comeau | |
| Krishna Gautam | |
| Victor Brunette |
COUNCIL MEMBERS
Events
Join the CIF-IFC Ottawa Valley Section, Eastern Ontario Model Forest, and the Ontario Woodlot Association for a December Forest Seminar entitled “Invasive Species: Addressing the Present Danger Invasive Species Pose to Canada’s Forest Biodiversity”. Date: Wednesday, December 6th, 2023 Time: 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. EST Location: Zoom – webinar link will be distributed in […]
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Section Contact
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