Thanks Darren,
No rush, (you could of course use it as an excuse - "sorry Hun, got to go out again" ) sounds like you guys are about the same size as our group Hills Brewers Guild. We are based in the North West Suburbs of Sydney. We meet once a month at several different Pizza cafes around the shire, that don't mind if we bring our own. We are scheduling a brewery visit in May , do a couple of group brew days and we have run a major comp in cooperation with the local Agricultural Society, from time to time. We had an entry from the Edmonton Brewers last time. I'm guessing it's easier to get "yeast samples: into Canada than into the US. I'll post a couple of links in your links section, one to our club ( limited access to non-members and the another major web site which is happy to have contributions from all over. There are contributers from Canada, Europe and as well as ex-pats all over. We are about to have our first national homebrewers conference in October in Melbourne (details on the AHB site)
Second thoughts, I'll post them here:
http://www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum
http://hillsbrewersguild.com/portal.php
Cheers
Chris