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** NOTE: Mineral collecting field trips will begin again in the Spring. Click on Previous Events below to browse past field trips, meetings and other events. Come to our monthly meetings which are held every second Thursday each month. Bring your rocks and minerals to have experts identify or exchange for other minerals plus attend fascinating presentations. Presentations are in English but bilingual club members would be happy to translate questions.

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OVMC October 2025 Meeting – The Geology of the Ottawa Area and Annual General Meeting

October 9 @ 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm

5:30 PM Mineral Identification and Kids Corner

“Rock Doctor” Clinic: Starts at 5:30, ends at 6 PM. Members are free to bring in a reasonable number of samples or specimens to be identified by the expert mineralogists in the club. This has been a very popular activity for the membership (at times exceeding our capacity to deal with everyone present!).

“Kids Corner”: We will now be having a table set aside for children to learn the basics of mineral identification and other related activities. Thank you to Tara Conroy for setting this up!

6:00 PM Meeting

Annual General Meeting

  • New Bylaws Vote
  • Board of Directors Election
  • Other

Speaker: Dr. Quentin Gall, Adjunct Professor, University of Ottawa

Topic: The Geology of the Ottawa Area

Dr. Gall is a geological consultant and adjunct professor at the University of Ottawa. 

He will talk about the regional evolution and characteristics of the Ottawa Embayment and Grenville basement, as well as some of the interesting features that have been found in the different stratigraphic units of this area over the years.

Canadian Museum of Nature

240 MacLeod Street
Ottawa, Ontario K2P 2R1 Canada + Google Map
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