User:Phelonius Friar/CAN•CON (convention)

CAN&bull;CON is an annual science fiction convention. Founded in 1991 by James Botte and Farrell McGovern in response to a perception that there were no dedicated venues for Canadian speculative fiction writers and artists, it ran until 2001 before it took a hiatus (the founders had to leave the country to find work when the dot-com bubble burst. It was started up again in 2010 by the same co-founders when James returned to Ottawa.

Spin-offs from the event included The Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy (now held in Toronto, Ontario) and NorthWords: The Journal of Canadian Content in Speculative Literature (now defunct).