Pierre Paquette (b. 1973) is a Canadian graphic designer and amateur astronomer. He served as a board member of RASC Montreal French Centre, editor of the AstronomieQuébec journal, and a presenter at the Night-Sky Odyssey augmented reality planetarium in Québec. Pierre has given multiple talks and workshops, and translated Ptolemy’s Almagest into French.

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Alex Stefanescu (b. 1955) is a retired Romanian-Canadian electrical engineer and
amateur astronomer. A former director of the Bellevue Observatory, he participated in
instrument maintenance, astronomy camps, stargazing, public talks and astrophotography,
attending three total solar eclipses.

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Jason Rowe (b. 1977) is a Canadian Assistant Professor at Bishop's University and the Canada Research Chair in Exoplanet Astrophysics.

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Mike Hudson (b. 1965) is a Canadian Professor of Astrophysics and Cosmology at the Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics of the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. His research interests include galaxy formation and cosmology.

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Eric Hess (b. 2000) is a Canadian Astrophysics Intern and telescope operator at the Rothney Astrophysical Observatory of the University of Calgary, Alberta. He is a coinvestigator with the Optical Transient Survey conducted at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria.

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Malhar R. Kendurkar (b. 1994) is a Canadian observational astronomer based in Prince George, British Columbia. His main research focus is on astronomical sky surveys, transient astrophysics and spectroscopy. Malhar is a regular user of the 1.82-m Plaskett telescope at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria.

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Marcin Sawicki (b. 1969) is a Canadian Professor and Canada Research Chair at the Department of Astronomy and Physics at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In addition, he is the Director of the Institute for Computational Astrophysics and a founding member of the JWST Near infrared Imager and slitless spectrograph instrument science.

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Aaron C. Boley (b. 1980) is a Canadian Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Planetary Astronomy at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of British Columbia. His research interests include planet formation and system evolution, proto-planetary disk evolution and the formation of meteorite parent bodies.

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The Malahat First Nation is one of five bands that comprise the Saanich Nation, located on the west coast of Canada.

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The Pauquachin First Nation is one of five bands that comprise the Saanich Nation, located on the west coast of Canada.

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