Keywords Associations

The older ROYAL SOCIETY opened the way by moving from its Ottawa base to annual conferences at Montréal, Kingston or Toronto. Younger, more specialized associations - such as those in history, political science and economics - joined in, holding their own meetings along with, or just following, the senior scholarly society. By the 1930s the practice of holding an annual learned-conference period at a different site each year was well established, though such sites were usually in central Canada, where most larger universities were located. But in 1949 "the Learneds" went to Halifax, and soon afterwards to Winnipeg, Edmonton and Vancouver.

Since then the growth of large universities across the country and the multiplication of learned societies - from the Assn of Canadian Archivists to the Canadian Linguistic Association, the Canadian Institute of International Affairs to the Association for Canadian Theatre History - have provided still more locations and a greater range of meetings for the organizations of Canadian scholarship.

Author J.M.S. CARELESS

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