CCA

Conferences

CCA hosts a major cartographic conference every year and from time to time sponsors local meetings. The conference is often held jointly with another cartographic society (in recent years ACMLA, CAG and NACIS), consistent with the CCA's commitment to forging links with sister organizations.

The next conference will be held at the University of Regina, Regina, SK, from June 1 to 5 with the Canadian Association of Geographers and the Canadian Remote Sensing Society as part of the Prairie Summit.

Special Session - The Last 25 Years of Mapping: Helping us move forward at the CCA meeting in Regina June 1-5, 2010

The last 25 years of mapping have been exciting and full of change. We have moved from mainly paper publication to mainly electronic publication. Spatial data are released more openly and freely than ever before. These years of profound change for mapping have not been well documented. In the traditions of Men and Meridians written by Don Thomson and Mapping a Northern Land edited by Gerald McGrath and Louis Sebert, the history of the last 25 years should be recorded.

Through these volumes the essence of the development of this country has been documented through the eyes of cartographers. It is time to provide this perspective for the last 25 years. Cartographers and others are invited to submit abstracts related to mapping and associated fields that look at the last 25 years and provide a view to the future.

Please prepare an abstract and send it to Donna Williams by February 25, 2010 so that we can have them submitted to the conference organizers by March 1 2010.