Canadian Association for Leisure studies

Canadian Association for Leisure Studies (CALS) is an association of Canadian and worldwide researchers and experts who share an enthusiasm for entertainment and relaxation research and the conveyance of recreation administrations, and who meet once at regular intervals at the Canadian Congress on Leisure Research. The CALS site gives you data about the Association and its exercises. You additionally will discover connections to Canadian and universal locales connected with the field of diversion and relaxation studies, of both a scholarly and a connected nature. CALS was established at the Third Canadian Congress on Leisure Research, held at the University of Alberta, in 1981. Tim Burton, a two-time President of CALS, has composed a brief history of the Association.

Participation in CALS is naturally granted to everybody who goes to a Canadian Congress on Leisure Research, albeit other enrollment courses of action are conceivable.

The CALS Board of Directors was profoundly disheartened to learn of the sudden going of Dr.Fern Delamere, Associate Professor in the Department of AppliedHuman Sciences at Concordia University in Montreal, Québec. Plant was included in a genuine auto crash on December 4 and she passed on calmly on Thursday, December 12, encompassed by her family and dearest companions. Plant was notable and quite cherished by her numerous companions and associates from crosswise over Canada and all through the world. She was a long-lasting and esteemed individual from the Board of Directors of the Canadian Association of Leisure Studies (CALS).

CALS is administered by a Board of Directors chose at every Congress, which serves until the following. It has no paid staff, and just a little spending plan, got from an unassuming per capita demand added to the enrollment charge at every congress. Its Head Office moves with the Presidency.