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Canadian Museum of Nature
Head Office Ottawa Ontario NOT NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR
Board of Trustees
Chair
R. Kenneth Armstrong, O.M.C., Ontario
Members
Johanne Bouchard, Quebec
Charmaine Crooks, British Columbia
Teresa MacNeil, Nova Scotia
Melody McLeod, Northwest Territories
Roy Piovesana, Ontario
Harold Robinson, Alberta
Anne Wallace, Saskatchewan
Time for us to be here - you think?
Became a Crown Corporation in 1990
The Canadian Museum of Nature is home to one of the world's largest and finest natural history collections. Comprised of 24 major science collections of more than 10 million specimens, the Museum's holdings cover four billion years of Earth history.
In addition to preserving these precious specimens for posterity, the collection is a vital resource for scientists, researchers and museums in Canada and around the world. For instance, by examining past patterns of species distribution, climate change and extinction, palaeobiology research helps scientists understand natural events that occur during environmental changes and assists in predicting future consequences.
At Nature, we use the past to prepare for the future. Our specimens provide the backbone for our many special exhibitions and signature galleries, and they greatly enhance our educational programmes, designed for adults, teens and children, about the natural world.
Our mandate
The Canadian Museum of Nature has its origins in the Geological Survey of Canada, which was formed in 1842. Nearly 150 years later, on July 1, 1990, the Museum became a Crown Corporation by an Act of Parliament.
The Museums Act was a significant event in the history of Nature. With Crown Corporation status came a new name, a new "arms-length" status and an expanded mandate.
"The purpose of the Canadian Museum of Nature is to increase throughout Canada and internationally, interest in, knowledge of and appreciation and respect for the natural world by establishing, maintaining and developing for research and posterity a collection of natural history objects, with special but not exclusive reference to Canada, and by demonstrating the natural world, the knowledge derived from it and the understanding it represents."
- from the Museums Act, Chapter M-13.4 (1990, c. 3)
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