J. DONALD LAFONTAINE is a research scientist at the Research Branch of Agriculture Canada, where he has worked in the Lepidoptera Unit in the Canadian National Collection of insects (CNC) for the past 25 years. ROSS A. LAYBERRY has been building a database of butterfly distribution in Canada since 1985, now at over 90,000 records, and is Ontario-Quebec co-ordinator for the annual summary of the Lepidopterists Society. PETER W. HALL is a senior manager in the Research Branch at Agriculture and Agri-food Canada in Ottawa and is involved in numerous butterfly-related education and conservation pr...