Chapter & Member Liaison

Welcome to the IPMS Canada Chapter & Member Liaison page! The intent of this page is to keep our Chapters and Individual Members up to date on various activities, let prospective new chapters know just how to make their application to IPMS Canada, and to be a forum for new ideas and methods to bring our IPMS Canada family closer together.

Here, you will find all of the information on how to start your own IPMS Canada chapter. It’s quite easy, and in almost no time you can have a group of like-minded modellers meeting on a regular basis to discuss any and all modelling topics. We have twenty-four chapters across Canada and a twenty-fifth in Memphis, Tennessee. We are most certainly “International” in our outlook!

We'll maintain a calendar of events, showing what’s going to be happening over the future two years. Chapters will let us know of their shows, activities and competitions, and we’ll post them here for all to see.

And, as new ideas and suggestions are actioned, the CL page will expand to incorporate them. Indeed, any thoughts on the expansion and improvement of this page are solicited from all IPMS Canada members.

So take a few minutes to look around.  If you have any questions and want to contact a member of the IPMS National Executive, you are invited to contact me, Gary Barling. I'm the Chapter Liaison member for IPMS Canada, and I'm always ready to discuss any aspect of Chapter life. You can contact me at: CML@ipmscanada.com ; or 613-687-7590; or by mail at 29 Selley Street, Petawawa ON   K8H 3G9.

Recent News

February, 2011

A time of writing (February, 2011) we have a number of competitions on the books, in Hamilton, Saskatoon, Ottawa and Winnipeg. We’ve been involved in such diverse activities as assisting in model evaluation for insurance purposes, checking web information, updating Chapter contacts, and writing a set of suggested competition rules. This last is taking more time than I thought, but we have sent out the first draft for comment, we’ve received a number of very positive responses, and I am now in the process of incorporating these responses into a “second draft” for further comment. It is likely that we won’t be able to dot all the “i’s” and cross all the “t’s,” but I am confident that the end result will be a very positive assistance to chapters wanting to run a regional competition beyond the chapter level. One chapter is even now contemplating the possibility of hosting a National competition. I'll keep you informed as this initiative progresses.

Cheers!

Gary

CML