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100th Anniversary Presentation to SLSA
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Board of Management 2010-2011 Photo
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Land Surveyors in the News
Mapper of Mountains: M.P. Bridgland in the Canadian Rockies
Newly Commissioned BC Land Surveyors
Northern Group Regional Scholarships
Photo Contest ABCLS 2010
Projected Number of Practising BC Land Surveyors (2005-2039)
The Northern Horizons of Guy Blanchet
Upcoming Events
Photo Contest ABCLS 2010
This year’s ABCLS photo contest theme is “Surveying the Seasons”. Click here for all the details.
100th Anniversary Presentation to SLSA
President Richard Wey (R) presenting the ABCLS gift to Dave Gurnsey (L), outgoing President (SLSA)
To commemorate the first 100 years of the Saskatchewan Land Surveyors Association, the ABCLS commissioned Harry Hickman (BCLS) to create a wooden gavel, striking plate, and storage box. For the gavel, Harry used wood from a Garry oak tree that had been cut down by his father 35 years ago on Protection Island, the smaller of the two islands in Nanaimo Harbour.
Richard Wey presented the ABCLS gift to the Saskatchewan Land Surveyors on Friday, March 26, 2010 in Regina at the Saskatchewan AGM.
Board of Management 2010-2011
(and Executive Director)
Back Row: Ian Lloyd (Member), Nigel Hemingway (Member), Mike Thomson (Surveyor General), Shauna Goertzen (Member)
Middle Row: John Armstrong (Past President), Mike Taylor (Member), Chuck Salmon (Secretary/Treasurer)
Front Row: Peter Mueller (Vice President), Richard Wey (President)
Janice Henshaw (Executive Director)
Northern Group Regional Scholarships
FORT ST. JOHN – On January 18th, two students enrolled in the Geomatics Engineering Technology Certificate program at Northern Lights College were presented with scholarships sponsored by the Association of BC Land Surveyors (ABCLS) and the Northern Regional Group of BC Land Surveyors. The awards – valued at $2,000 and $1,000 – were presented to Zach Dowd and Vasily Petlyuk. The awards are based on the highest and second highest academic standing at the end of term one.
Award presentations were made by Geomatics instructors Shauna Goertzen and Lee Morden.
Photo: Shauna Goertzen, Zach Dowd and Lee Morden
Photo: Shauna Goertzen, Vasily Petlyuk and Lee Morden
Newly Commissioned BC Land Surveyors
BCLS #873 Rob Macdonald was commissioned by Richard Wey on July 29, 2010 in Sidney
Photo: Richard Wey, Rob Macdonald
BCLS #872 Rob Glass was commissioned by Peter Mueller on June 29, 2010 in Surrey
Photo: Monty Brisson, Scott Netherton, Rob Glass, Peter Mueller
BCLS #871 Gina Hidber was commissioned by Chuck Salmon on June 21, 2010 in Smithers
Photo: Chuck Salmon and Gina Hidber
BCLS #870 Rebecca Broten was commissioned by Chuck Salmon on June 21, 2010 in Smithers
Photo: Chuck Salmon and Rebecca Broten
BCLS #869 Liming Yuan was commissioned by Peter Mueller on June 17, 2010 in Burnaby
Photo: Peter Mueller and Liming Yuan
BCLS #868 Emily Freeman was commissioned by Peter Mueller on June 17, 2010 in Burnaby
Photo: Peter Mueller, Emily Freeman, Ivan Royan
BCLS #867 Mark Dailey was commissioned by Peter Mueller on June 17, 2010 in Burnaby
Photo: Peter Mueller and Mark Dailey
BCLS #866 Brian Minifie was commissioned by Chuck Salmon in Delta on June 17, 2010
Photo: Warren Barnard, Brian Minifie, Chuck Salmon
BCLS #865 Ben Doherty was commissioned by Shauna Goertzen in Fort St. John on June 14, 2010
Photo: Sandy Ross, Ben Doherty and Shauna Goertzen
BCLS #864 David Symonds was commissioned by Chuck Salmon in Duncan on June 11, 2010
Photo: Robin Kenyon, David Symonds, Chuck Salmon and Allen Cox
BCLS #863 Joe Riar was commissioned by Peter Mueller in Surrey on June 11, 2010
Photo: Peter Mueller and Joe Riar
BCLS #862 Jeff Adair was commissioned by Shauna Goertzen in Fort St. John on June 9, 2010
Photo: Jeff Adair and Shauna Goertzen
BCLS #861 Jiunhan Keong was commissioned by Chuck Salmon in Kelowna on March 3, 2010
Photo: Peter Mueller, Richard Wey, Jiunhan Keong, John Armstrong, Chuck Salmon
The Northern Horizons of Guy Blanchet
Intrepid Surveyor, 1884 – 1966 by Gwyneth Hoyle
For more information on this event. please view the attached.
Mapper of Mountains:
M.P. Bridgland in the Canadian Rockies, 1902-1930
The University of Alberta Press recently published the Mapper of Mountains book written by Ian MacLaren.
Mapper of Mountains follows the career of Dominion Land Surveyor Morrison Parsons Bridgland, who provided the first detailed maps of many regions of the Canadian Rockies. Between 1902 and 1930, this unheralded alpinist perfected phototopographical techniques to compile a series of mountaintop photographs during summers of field work, and spent his winters collating them to provide the Canadian government, tourists, and mountain climbers with accurate topographical maps.
Latest book in UAP’s new Mountain Cairns Series.
ISBN 0-88864-456-6, $39.95 CDN, 312 pages, biography.
http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=651
Projected Number of Practising
BC Land Surveyors (2005-2039)
Based on a question asked to BC Land Surveyors in the Continuing Professional Development Survey – “In what year do you plan to retire” the Association office has compiled data to produce a graph which shows the projected number of practising BC land surveyors per year. To view the graph please use this link.
Land Surveyors in the News
Teresa Myrfield – First Female Land Surveyor in BC
Author Katherine Gordon
Article published in the Times Colonist – May 29, 2005
Ross Glover – A Surveyor’s View
Article published in The Mount Washington Marmot; Winter 2005 ~ Spring 2006
Ron Scobbie – Surveying Exhibition Shows History of Land
SLSA – First Female Land Surveyor in Saskatchewan
David Bazett – With Bazett’s photo mapping, legal surveying just got a lot more precise.
Archived Articles
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ABCLS Newsletters
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