Wallace Clement is Professor of Sociology and former Director of the Institute of Political Economy (1993 to 2000) at Carleton University and, since 1991, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is co-author of Relations of Ruling: Class and Gender in Postindustrial Societies (with John Myles), winner of the 1995 Innis Book Prize awarded by the Social Science Federation of Canada. His current research compares labour market formations in Canada, the United States, Sweden, Germany, Australia and Japan.
Wallace_Clement@msn.com

Linda Di Luzio is a doctoral candidate at the University of Calgary. Di Luzio specializes in research methods and Canadian society. Her doctoral work focuses on migration and relocation within Canada
lldi@ucalgary.ca

Leo Driedger, professor of Sociology at the University of Manitoba, has published 17 books including Multi-Ethnic Canada (Oxford, 1996), Immigrant Canada (Toronto, 1999), Race and Racism (McGill/Queen’s, 2000) and Mennonites in the Global Village (Toronto, 2000). Recently he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, won the 1999 CSAA Outstanding Contribution to Sociology award, and became a Deputy Governor of the American Biographical Research Association, and received the Cambridge International Outstanding 2000 Scholars of the 21st Century award.
driedge1@cc.umanitoba.ca

Margrit Eichler is Professor of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education at OISE/UT and Director of the Institute for Women's Studies and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto. She has published widely in the areas of family policy, including Family Shifts (Oxford University Press, 1997), on reproductive and genetic technologies, feminist and non-sexist methods, environmental sustainability, and women's studies. Recently she edited a special issue of Environments on 'Linking Equity and Sustainability', Vol. 28 (2), 2000.
meichler@oise.utoronto.ca

Marcel Fournier is Professor Of Sociology at the Université de Montréal and is editor of the journal Sociologie et Sociétés. His main interests are in social theory, the history of sociology, and the sociology of science. His most recent books include a book on Marcel Mauss (1994), and co-authored edited books Cultivating Differences (1992), Marcel Mauss, Écrits politiques (1996), La correspondance Durkheim-Mauss (1998), and Quebec Society (1997).
marcel.fournier@UMontreal.CA

Harry H. Hiller is Professor of Sociology at the University of Calgary. Hiller has published on the development of sociology in Canada and has written on macro issues in Canadian society. Much of his recent work has focused on the urban impact of mega-events contributing to the field of urban sociology.
hiller@ucalgary.ca

Simon Langlois is a Professor of Sociology at Laval University in Quebec.
simon.langlois@soc.ulaval.ca

Robert Leroux received is B.A. and M.Sc. from the Université de Montréal and Ph.D. from the Université Laval. He is Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa. He is the author of Histoire et sociologie en France — De l’histoire-science à la sociologie durkheimienne (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1998).
roleroux@uottawa.ca

David A. Nock is Professor of Sociology at Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario. His books include Reading, Writing and Riches (1978) co-edited with R.W. Nelsen, A Victorian Missionary and Canadian Indian Policy (1988) and Star Wars in Canadian Sociology: Exploring the Sociology of Knowledge (1993). He has published in The Canadian Journal of Sociology, The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, The Sociological Review, Sociological Analysis, Canadian Ethnic Studies, Studies in Religion, The Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism, the Journal of Canadian Studies and The Insurgent Sociologist. His concerns at this time revolve around the sociology of sociology and of knowledge, epistemology in sociology, and bibliometrics.
nockd@air.on.ca

Robert A. Stebbins, FRSC, is Faculty Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Calgary. His research interests encompass work, leisure, deviance, and francophone communities. He has published numerous articles and chapters as well as 24 books, including The French Enigma: Survival and Development in Canada’s Francophone Societies (Detselig, 2000). Serious Leisure: New Directions in Theory and Research (Edwin Mellen, 2001), and Qualitative Research in the Social Sciences (Sage, 2001).
stebbins@ucalgary.ca

D.B. Tindall is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Anthropology/Sociology and Forest Resources Management at the University of British Columbia. His ongoing research is in the fields of social network analysis, social movements, and environmental sociology. He has a particular interest in the role of social networks in micromobilization for collective action and social movements.
tindall@interchange.ubc.ca

Sylvia T. Wargon studies in sociology at the University of Toronto (BA, 1946) and the University of Illinois, Urbana – Champaign (MA, 1947), were followed by two years as a Teaching Fellow in Sociology in the University of Toronto’s Department of Political Economy. In 1962, work in the demographic field began on joining the census jurisdiction of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics (Statistics Canada from 1971). From 1988, research on the social history of demography in Canada was pursued at the bureau, and continued there after retirement in 1993. Interest and publication in the history of science continues, especially in the history of sociology, demography and statistics, with a focus on the development of these disciplines in Canada.
wargsyl@statcan.ca

Barry Wellman has been a Canadian and Torontonian by choice since 1967. At the University of Toronto he founded the International Network for Social Network Analysis in 1976 and led this scholarly association until 1988. Concurrently, he edited and published INSNA's informal journal Connections, where many of the scholars discussed in this article served as Associate and Assistant Editors. At the Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Wellman founded and headed the Structural Analysis Programme, a virtual research institute of faculty and graduate students applying social network analysis to a variety of substantive, theoretical and substantive issues. Wellman (with S.D. Berkowitz) edited Social Structures: A Network Approach (2d ed., JAI Press, 1997), Networks in the Global Village (Westview Press, 1999), and with Caroline Haythornthwaite The Internet in Everyday Life (Blackwells, 2002).
wellman@chass.utoronto.ca