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  Welcome to the
     Vancouver Island Paleontological   Society (VIPS) Website!

      The Vancouver Island Paleontological Society is a non-profit society of professional and amateur paleontologists based in Courtenay, British Columbia, Canada.
      The society was formed after the discovery of a large marine reptile called an Elasmosaur along the banks of the Puntledge River. The 80 million year old fossilized skeleton was found by Mike Trask and his daughter Heather in 1988.

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Updated March 8 2007

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Symposium 2007

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