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The Entomological Society of Canada (ECS) was established in Toronto in 1863. Dr. Charles J. S. Bethune (1838-1932), Head of the Entomology and Zoology Department at the Ontario Agricultural College, and William Saunders (1836-1914), Director of the Experimental Farms Service, Department of Agriculture, were two of the original founders, with the first president as Henry Holmes Croft (1820–1883). The Canadian Entomologist has been published by the ESC since 1868.
The society changed its name to the Entomological Society of Ontario (ESO) in 1871 and moved to London, Ontario the following year. Despite the name change, the ESO remained a focal point for entomology across Canada for many years. The headquarters of the ESO relocated to the Ontario Agricultural College in Guelph in 1906. With a rapid increase in the interest of entomology after the Second World War, it was decided that a ‘new’ national society was needed, and so the Entomological Society of Canada was founded in 1950.
Still an active society, the ESO is dedicated to furthering entomology through annual meetings and publications. Today, as always, members of the Society have varied entomological interests; physiology, taxonomy, ecology and pest management. Although founded by amateurs, whose active participation is encouraged, today the majority of the Society’s members are professionals, sharing their interests and expertise while working either in Provincial or Federal governments, industry or universities within Ontario as well as other parts of Canada and the world.
[For more, visit https://www.entsocont.ca/].