The 2005 COMP/CCMP banquet will be held at the Royal Botanical Gardens Centre in Hamilton on Friday July 6th at 1800hr. It's technically in Burlington, but we won't go there. The RBG started in Hamilton in the 1920s by preserving 400 acres near the entrance of the University. It became an independent entity in 1941 by an act of the provincial government and now maintains 2700 acres around Cootes Paradise, complete with guided trails that back right onto McMaster University. The nearest trails are minutes from the conference buildings