Meeting location
St Alban the Martyr Anglican Church
537 Main St.
Glen Williams, (Georgetown) Ont. (MAP)
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Speaker: Brenna Bartley
Brenna is the Education & Outreach Manager for Conservation Halton. She has 27 years of experience in the field of outdoor education and is privileged to lead a team of passionate educators helping build ecological literacy one interaction at a time.
Brenna and her team seek to light people up with wonder at the natural world. In her spare time, she enjoys going on long walks with a good camera and recently completed a Master’s degree in Climate Change at the University of Waterloo.
Subject: From Corn Pollen to the Golden Spike
Stories from Crawford Lake
Crawford Lake is a remarkable body of water. Over 10,000 years old, the lake has unique properties that allow it to preserve a record of natural and human induced change in its sediment.
Conservation, science, and Indigenous knowledge have come together to tell a compelling story of the land and our impact upon it over the past 1000 years. From the discovery of corn pollen that led to reconstruction of a 15th century longhouse village to the designation of the lake as the host of the Golden Spike for the proposed Anthropocene Epoch, we’ll explore all the secrets of Crawford Lake!
Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Annual Member Slide Show and
possible Pot Luck (stay tuned)
Tuesday, January 13, 2026
Time: 7:30 p.m.
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Tuesday, February 10, 2026
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Tuesday, March 10, 2026
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Tuesday, April 14, 2026
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Tuesday, May 12, 2026
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Tuesday, June 9, 2026
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Annual Outdoor Meeting at Scotsdale Farm to monitor the HNPNC nestboxes installed by our club.
Contact us for more info. info@hnpnc.com
Room available at 7:15 for greeting and social chat.
St Alban’s Church
Presentation will begin at 7:30 p.m.
E-Mail us at info@hnpnc.com if you want more information about our meetings, outings, or membership.
Public welcome. Please show your support – become a member!
Meetings are held on the second Tuesday of each month from September to June unless otherwise stated. Meetings take place at St Alban the Martyr Anglican Church
537 Main St.
Glen Williams, (Georgetown) Ont.
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Past Speakers
- November 11, 2025 – Crawford Lake – From Corn Pollen to the Golden Spike: Brenna Bartley
- October 14, 2025 – A Whale of a Story – from tragedy comes hope for the Atlantic blue whale: Dr. Mark Engstrom
- September 9, 2025 – Anne Innis Dagg (Giraffologist): Mary Dagg
- May 13, 2025 – Insects: Dr. Steve Marshall
- April 8, 2025 – Snakes: Limbless, scaly, elongate reptiles: Don Scallen & Yves Scholten
- March 11 – Bottoms up in Africa: Margaret Beaudette
- February 11, 2025 – Aquatic Life: Colin Illes
- January 14, 2025 – Wilfrid G. Crozier Nature Reserve: Pedro Pereyra
- December 10, 2024 – Annual Christmas Club member slide show
- November 12, 2024 – Sulawesi: Fiona Reid
- October 8, 2024 – Freshwater Mussels of Ontario: Sarah Richer
- September 10, 2024 – A Review of Some Invasive Plant Biological Control Programs: W. D. McIlveen
- May 14, 2024 – Witness of the Natural World: Dr. Bill McIlveen
- April 9, 2024 – Turtles of Ontario: Don Scallen
- March 12, 2024 – Fish Ecology of our Region: Jon Clayton
- February 13, 2024 – Penguins, Pinnipeds and Cetaceans: Elizabeth Szekeres
- January 9, 2024 – Meeting cancelled due to weather
- December 12, 2023 – Annual Christmas Club member slide show
- November 14, 2023 – Insects and Plants and Climate Change: Dr. Heather Kharouba
- October 10, 2023 – Birder Murder Mysteries : Steve Burrows
- September 12, 2023 – Baja California Whales: Ian Jarvie
- May 9, 2023 – Introduction to Molluscs: W. D. McIlveen
- April 11, 2023 – Bats and Community Science: Fiona Reid & Bridget Sparrow-Scinnoca
- March 14, 2023 – Birding as Therapy for the Chronically ill: Rob Bell
- February 14, 2023 – Birds and Other Wildlife of Uganda: Yves Scholten
- January 10, 2023 – Amorous Salamanders, Piscine Stonemasons, and Crooning Tree Crickets: Don Scallen
- December 13, 2022 – Annual Christmas Club member slide show
- November 8, 2022 – Conservation Halton Landowner Stewardship Conservation Programs: Beth Anne Fischer & Mike Heyming
- October 11, 2022 – From the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative: Parasites and Wildlife Diseases: Brian Steven
- September 13, 2022 – CVC’s Butterfly Blitz with mention of West Virginia White butterflies: Laura Timms PhD
- May 10, 2022 – Monitoring Bird Boxes on CVC Properties: Christina Kovacs
- April 12, 2022 – The Galapagos Islands : Elizabeth Szekeres
- March 8, 2022 – Eat the Beetles: David Waltner-Toews
- February 8, 2022 – Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-feeding Creatures: Bill Schutt
- January 11, 2022 – Trail Cameras How They Work: Janet Pesaturo
- November 9, 2021 – Algonquin Park: Michael Runtz
- October 12, 2021 – A fifth limb: tails of hanging around in the Neotropical rain forest: Fiona Reid
- September 14, 2021 – From endangered Redside Dace to stunning Brook Trout: Don Scallen
- June 8, 2021 – Ontario Prairies, Savannahs and Grasslands: Dan Stuart
- May 11, 2021 – The wildlife of the Pribilof Islands: Rich Hoyer
- April 13, 2021 – Caterpillars the Whole Story: Caterpillars, Connections, and Why Biodiversity Matters: Sam Jaffe
- March 9, 2021 – Saving South American Giants (giant armadillos): Arnaud Desbiez
- February 9, 2021 – Central American Amphibians and Reptiles: Twan Leenders
- January 12, 2021 – Beautiful Nocturnal Creatures – Costa Rican Night Life: Tracie Stice, Gianfranco Gomez
- November 10, 2020 – Come Walk With Us: Sonya and Sean Morton walking journey across Canada
- March 10, 2020 – Local Insect Discovery
- February 11, 2020 – Bill McIlveen
- January 14, 2020 – Ontario Herptiles
- November 12, 2019 – The Special Wetlands of the Hamilton Watershed
- October 8, 2019 – Toxic Animals
- September 10, 2019 – Tropical Nature
- May 14, 2019 – Wetland Wildlife
- April 9, 2019 – Out of the Depths, ROM’s Blue Whale Salvaging Project: Mark Engstrom
- March 12, 2019 – Eat Prey Love: The Secret Lives of Spiders: Catherine Scott
- February 26, 2019 – Practical tips to take your nature photography to the next level: Gary Hall
- January 8, 2019 – little things that run the world: Laura Timms
