Tentative Schedule
The tentative schedule for the post-conference excursion on August 16 and 17, 2024 is as follows:
Friday, August 16:
- departure from Toronto at 7 a.m.
- Royal Ontario Museum Natural History department-led tour of their fish specimen storage
- ecologist- and archaeologist-led tour of the reconstructed Iroquoian village and the meromictic lake at Crawford Lake Conservation Area (which is on the Niagara Escarpment, a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve), including a picnic lunch
- possibly visit to the beach and swimming in Lake Ontario at Burlington
- buffet dinner at the Holiday Inn hotel in Burlington
- socializing in the hotel bar (cash bar)
Saturday, August 17:
- buffet breakfast at the hotel
- Indigenous ecologist- and archaeologist-led tour of the lower reaches of the Grand River
- traditional fish-and-chips lunch in Port Dover, featuring Lake Erie walleye or yellow perch
- to be confirmed: visit to the Normandale fish hatchery, which raises Atlantic salmon for the reintroduction programme in Lake Ontario (where there was a huge landlocked population that became extirpated in 1898)
- possibly visiting the beach and swimming in Lake Erie at Turkey Point
- return Toronto early evening