Local Affiliates

There are local clubs or societies across Canada for African violet lovers to join. You can make new friends, learn more about African violets, obtain more African violets and participate in local shows by joining a local group.

Many of our local affiliates also have web sites of their own. New sites have just been established by the Ottawa African Violet Society and Société des Saintpaulia de Montréal.

Member societies listed below may update this information by following the directions at the foot of the page.

A complete list of local societies in Canada and the U.S.A. affiliated with the African Violet Society of Canada follows:

Canada

Alberta:

Calgary:

Stampede City African Violet Society

c/o Winston J. Goretsky
32 Scimitar Point NW
Calgary, AB T3L 2B2
Phone: 403 241-8300
Email: scavs@telus.net
Web site: http://www3.telus.net/scavs/

Edmonton:

Edmonton African Violet & Gesneriad Society
c/o Patricia Bell
33 Ash Crescent
St. Albert, AB  T8N 3J6
Phone: 780 458-1386
Email: pmbell@shaw.ca

Medicine Hat

Gas City African Violet Society

c/o Mrs A.W. Cyster

144 - 11 Street SW

Medicine Hat, AB  T1A 4S3

British Columbia:

Vancouver:

Vancouver African Violet & Gesneriad Society
Arleen Dewell

Email: arleendewell@shaw.ca
Web site: http://www3.telus.net/vavgs/

Manitoba:

Winnipeg:

Winnipeg African Violet Society

c/o Bonnie Batchelor
84 Manitou Bay
Winnipeg, MB  R3K 0V8
Phone: 204 889-3283
Email: blbatchelor@hotmail.com

New Brunswick:

Moncton:

Monctonian African Violet Society

c/o Jane Wood
130 Ranch Road
Riverview,  NB E1B 1P3
 

Saint John:

Fundy Violet Club

c/o Sherry Bagnell
Saint John, NB
Email: sbbag@nb.sympatico.ca

Nova Scotia:

Annapolis Valley:

Annapolis Valley African Violet Society

c/o Valerie Despres
2150 Harmony Road
Aylesford NS
B0P 1C0
Phone: 902 847 1001
Email: vdespres@av.eastlink.ca

Web site:  http://www.avavs.com

Halifax:

First Halifax African Violet Society
c/o Anne Brown
2831 Doug Smith Drive
Halifax, NS  B3L 3T6
Email: bernie.brown@ns.sympatico.ca
Web site: http://dir.gardenweb.com/directory/fhaavs/

Ontario:

London:

London African Violet Society

Phone: 519 471-8825 (Dianne)
Email: blossoms@LondonViolets.ca

Web site: http://www.LondonViolets.ca

Oakville:

Oakville African Violet Society

Eva Lindstol
1224 Sprucelea Drive
Oakville, ON
Phone: 905 845-5434
Email: OakvilleAVS@gmail.com

Web site: http://oavs.tripod.com/

Ottawa:

Ottawa African Violet Society

c/o Lorna Russell
17 Chinook Crescent,
Nepean, ON  K2H 7C9
Phone: 613-829-8341
Email: lornarussell@rogers.com

Web Site: http://www.oavs.ca/
or
c/o Sandi Bain
51 Biscayne Crescent,
Nepean, ON K2E 5R9
Phone: 613-226-1377
Email: sebain@rogers.com

Toronto:

Lakeshore African Violet Society of Toronto
c/o Doris Brownlie
800 Silvercreek Blvd. #80
Mississauga, ON  L5A 2B4
Phone 905 270-6776

Email: jtbrownlie@idirect.com

Toronto:

Toronto African Violet Society

c/o Doris Brownlie
800 Silvercreek Blvd. #80
Mississauga, ON  L5A 2B4
Phone 905 270-6776
Email: jtbrownlie@idirect.com

Web site: http://www.tavs.ca/

Yahoo Group: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/TAVS/

Toronto:

Toronto Gesneriad Society

c/o Monte Watler
240 Burnhamthorpe Road
Etobicoke, ON  M9B
Phone: 416 233-6664
Email: monte.watler@sympatico.ca

Web site: http://www.gesneriadsociety.org/chapters/TGS/
 

Prince Edward Island

Prince Edward Island African Violet Society

c/o John G. Carruthers

125 Small Avenue

Summerside, PEI  C1N 4S9

Québec:

Jonquière:

Les Violettes sagueneennes

c/o Jean-Paul Chayer
875 Rang 9
St-Ambroise, QC  G7P 2A4
Email: jpcy@sympatico.ca

Longueuil:

Club Violettes Longueuil
c/o Maryse Roux
C. P. 5000
Longueuil, QC J4K 4Y7
Phone: 450-923-0914
Email: club_violettes_longueuil@hotmail.com
Website: http://www.geocities.com/club_violettes_longueuil/
 

Montréal:

African Violet Society of Greater Montreal
c/o Greta Durand

3171 Lakeshore Road

Pointe-Claire, QC  H9S 5N3

Email: gretadurand@sprint.ca

Montréal:

Société des Saintpaulia de Montréal

c/o Monique Beaucage

4101 est, rue Sherbrooke

Montréal, QC  H1X 2B2

Téléphone : 514 990-5701

Email/Courriel : saintpauliamontreal@hotmail.com

Site web : http://www.saintpaulia-montreal.com/

Sakatchewan:

Regina:

Carefree Gesneriad Society

c/o Gloria Martin
298 Michener Drive
Regina, SK  S4V 0J4
Email: midi4@sasktel.net

U.S.A.

New York:

African Violet Society of Syracuse

c/o F.S. Barthel, Jr.

102 Melvin Drive

North Syracuse, NY  13212

Website: http://www.avsofsyracuse.org/

New York State African Violet Society, Inc.

c/o Mr. Irwin Wagman
52 Harper Drive
Pittsford, NY 14534-3104

Email: Irwin_Wagman@urgrad.rochester.edu

Ohio:

Parmatown African Violet Club

c/o Tracy Lorence

3786 Williams

Parmatown, OH  44212

To Update Affiliate Information:

Affiliate societies, you may wish from time to time to correct, update or add to the above information. Please send the new information by email to violets@avsc.ca. You may show your society's name, a contact person, address, telephone, email address and a web site address if you have one. Please don't let the information get out-of-date. Let us know your changes promptly.

You must have an up-to-date affiliate membership in AVSC to be listed on this web page.

Note re. Links on this Site:

Please note that AVSC provides links only to the sites of:
 

1. Local or regional African violet or gesneriad societies affiliated with AVSC,
 

2. National African violet societies in other countries,
 

3. Commercial members of AVSC.
 

We do not provide links to amateur or personal sites.
 

Reciprocal links are appreciated but not required.

Imagine joining a club where you will find new friends who like you enjoy growing African violets.  This is Ness' Crinkle Blue, just one of many popular varieties found among local society members but never found in grocery store flower displays. It is pictured above entered in the very popular "Plant in an Unusual Container" class in a show. The closer shot below shows you more detail of the plant.