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Volume 38 ... Number 3 ... December 2015

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Contents Editor's Effort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 President's Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Delegate Reports Quebec Annual General Meeting ... Bronwyn Denton . . . . . . . . . 6 Manitoba Annual General Meeting ... Steve Buzikievich . . . . . . . . 7 Nova Scotia Annual General Meeting ... Ron Johns . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Prince Edward Island Annual General Meeting ... Ron Johns . . . . . 10 Surveyor General's Datum Land Title and Survey Authority Update ... Mike Thomson . . . . . . 11 Chief Administrative Officer From the CAO ... Chad Rintoul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Robert's Corner McVittie House and Land Surveying Office ... Robert Allen . . . . . . 17 Bulletins Surveyors on Bikes ... Len Orrico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . New Commissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . OIP Luncheon ... Wayne Griffith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Professional Liability Committee ... Michael Kidston . . . . . . . . . Lifetime Achievement Award for Stan Nickel ... Chuck Salmon . . . . Thank You to the ABCLS ... Stan Nickel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Communication ... Complaint Inquiry Committee . . . . . . . . . . . Why the AIBC Matters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Getting it Right BC ... CPD Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Meet the Students at BCIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ABCLS Annual General Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Biographical Corner Paul Penner ... Wayne Griffith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Richard Chapman ... Steve Buzikievich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Christopher Everett ... Robert Allen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

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Front Cover ... the photo (Castle Hill Peak Trig Station, Torlesse Range, Canterbury, New Zealand) was provided by Brad Cooper, LST, EIT, ANZIS.

Surveyors on Boats ... Ron Johns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Financial Contributions to the BC Land Surveyors Foundation . . . 58

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Editor's Effort Windows ... 10 Again

By Dave Morton, B.SC., BCLS Before I begin the article on Windows 10, I would like to offer an apology to our readers, on behalf of Robert Allen. Robert's article, 'Silver Pockets Full' in the August 2015 issue of the Link was erroneous due to the receipt of misinformation. On the internet Windows 10 is a topic that just won't go away!! So, in order to provide some insights into Microsoft's new operating system, I have tried, in past issues, to provide technical support, but the issue has become so complicated that I would need to create a document that might be better written as a book (currently I have 120+ articles dealing with Windows 10). Unfortunately, much of what I have to say will not be of use to those that have already taken the plunge. Before proceeding with the Windows 10 upgrade I would strongly suggest creating a clone of your existing system … prior to doing so it would also be wise to ensure that your system is operating satisfactorily as there is not much point in a cloning operation with an infected or poorly functioning system. An effort to update your hardware drivers (especially video cards) and software programs (such as anti-virus and malware protection) would be a wise precaution. I suggest cloning because such a procedure will not complicate your business if Windows 10 proves to be a major issue. As stated in the August issue of the Link I use Acronis True Image 2016 ($59.99, which provides me with an exact duplicate of my system (including the operating system, programs and data). If I should have a system failure such as an inaccessible hard drive, I simply replace the existing failed drive with the external drive upon which I have created a cloned image. To further explain, I have an internal hard drive (Seagate Barracuda 2 TB - $91.00 at Amazon.ca) installed in an enclosure (Vantec 3.5 Inch SATA USB 3.0 - $31.00 at Amazon.ca), which I use as an external drive for cloning purposes. Apparently there has been a major effort, of those who have installed Windows 10, to revert back to their previous 4

version of the Microsoft operating system … according to the Rescuecom computer repair company. If you wish to determine the wisdom of upgrading and are concerned that some of your programs might not work properly, you can take advantage of the Microsoft system-compatibility checker that's in the Get Windows 10 option which is available within the Widows 10 upgrade icon on the taskbar at the bottom of your computer screen. There is also software available on the 'GWX Control Panel' site that will manage this icon for you. If you do install Windows 10 and find that you are not happy with the result, your system can be restored to its original condition … providing the restoration takes place within a month of installing Windows 10. The procedure is quite simple ... left click on the Start menu icon (lower left corner of the screen) and select Settings. Left click the Update & security icon and select Recovery. However, please be aware that there have been instances where the restore process did not work. If this should occur, the Rescuecom computer repair company may be able to assist you. There is also an alternative to using the icon if it disappears as it did with my computers. You can go to https:// www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 and use the 'Media Creation Tool to install Windows 10 on a DVD or a USB flash drive. A site that explains the process is https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/ windows10. You do need a valid Product Key in order to carry out this procedure, but the described routine allows you to install Windows 10 on a computer other than on the one that your current operating system is on … bonus!! In view of the problems associated with the upgrade to Windows 10, I would wait as long as you can before installing the upgrade … at least six months from the July 29th release … unless you are already having problems with your current operating system and feel like taking a gamble. There is an overwhelming amount of information available on the internet that can assist you in establishing a satisfactory installation of Windows 10. I recommend http://www.howtogeek.com as a site that provides quality advice and information. Also, if you have need of additional assistance, I would be happy to provide what I can in the way of information … you can reach me at dl.morton@ shaw.ca.

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Letters From a letter submitted to Robert Allen, BCLS, CLS, GIC â&#x20AC;Ś September 6th, 2015:

Re: David Trevorrow, BCLS (1933-2014) Dear Robert: Congratulations to you and your "helper" Michael, for the biographical sketch on my long-time friend, David Trevorrow (The Link - August 2015). As you know, David worked with me for quite a number of years. His confident and cheerful demeanour, optimism, and gung-ho approach to any job or chore in life I found to be very refreshing. As a boy, I think David must have been, like myself, an avid reader of G.N. Henty, Joseph Conrad, Chums, The Boy's Own Annual, Oliver Curwood, and Jack London and hence his own tales of adventure and derringdo in all subjects. We are all entitled to dream a bit, but I'm sure that there was a good dose of Walter Witty in our friend David. After hearing a number of his Tall Tales, I often referred to him as "The last surviving Spitfire pilot from the charge of The Light Brigade." It's not true that I tried to lay him off on his first day. The urge to do so may have surfaced about a year later when I realized that my own B.S., no matter how hard I tried, could ever quite reach the elevation of David's Tall Ones. Before any action, however, I luckily remembered that competition can only improve one's own skill. There is an old maxim that you can slide farther on B.S. than you can on sandpaper and it soon became amusing to watch David slide into home plate yet once again. A masterful raconteur was our boy without doubt! You mention that David made reference to a poem of mine about a cat. Well it wasn't really a poem but a song left over from my fun-filled drinking days: Well some liquor was spilled on the bar room floor, And the bar was closed for the night. Then a little mouse crept from his hole in the wall Into the pale moonlight.

Now he lapped up the liquor on the bar room floor And back on his haunches he sat. And all night long, you could hear him roar BRING ON THE GOD DAMNED CAT! The excellent photo in your article shows David looking hale, hearty, and gung-ho right up until the end when I suppose the old bearded dude in the doorway with the scythe called out "Next!" Good Bye David. You done good. Just remember that when you slide by Saint Peter, that both Pete and his good pal Colonel Flashman know all about the charge that took place on October 25th, 1854. You will recall of course, that it was on a Wednesday. You're with a different crowd up there now David and even Queen Victoria should be shuffling around somewhere. She will no doubt have heard some of your stories and will want to meet a real Colonial. When you accept her invitation to tea - just remember to remove the spoon before you sip. Cheers -- Doug Meredith, BCLS (1929-20--).

OIP Luncheon Story â&#x20AC;Ś Correction My story, as printed in the August Link, was not quite as told to the OIP luncheon, some significant wording was missing. If any member would like to read the original version I will happy to forward a personal Email. Chris James (BCLS700@shaw.ca).

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President's Message The Annual General Meeting and Reflections on the Past Year By Bronwyn Denton, BCLS, President

This is the third and final time I will be writing you from the President's chair. With several weeks until the Annual Meeting, there is still much to be accomplished. As you will read in the reports throughout this version of the Link, there are many initiatives and projects underway within the Board of Management. The busy fall schedule of visits to other Association meetings was shared between myself, Steve and Ron, and I thank them for disrupting their work schedules to attend these meetings on behalf of the ABCLS. By the time you receive this magazine, we will have completed our December working week of meetings, and interviewed nine potential candidates. When I see you next, there will be much information to share! Plans for the Annual General Meeting in Kimberley are well in hand, thank you to Vicki and Chad for leading the planning efforts. Mark and I hope that you and your families are planning to join us in March for a time of professional development, networking and Association business. Volunteers have worked very hard to provide a

strong seminar series, as well as social events with a local flavor. The costumed Bavarian theme night will feature local draught beer, local dancers and a tantalizing German buffet. Friday night will be a black and white themed Awards Dinner to honor our distinguished members and new commissions. I can assure you that the entire community of Kimberley is anticipating our arrival! As I reflect on the past year, my feelings are mixed. In some respects, including my term as President and our wedding, it is a year that I will always treasure. Yet, in so many ways 2015 has been a year I wish I could forget. Filled with what felt like one family tragedy after another, we learned of my father's cancer diagnosis, experienced the death of first my grandfather and then six months later my grandmother, his wife of 69 years. Recently, we received difficult news of Mark's brother's battle with cancer. In all of this, I have been drawn more closely to my family and valued relationships and re-inspired to embrace the adventure of life. And so, after contemplating the contents of this article for weeks, my message is this: As 2015 draws to a close, I encourage you to reflect and prioritize the people and the activities that bring you satisfaction and fulfillment. We are proud, passionate professionals and our identity as land surveyors is integral to our existence. Let us each strive to make 2016 a year to cherish, both professionally and personally.

Delegate Reports The Quebec Order of Land Surveyors (OAGQ) Annual General Meeting By Bronwyn Denton, BCLS, President

The Annual Meeting of the OAGQ was held in Bromont, Quebec September 17th-19th, 2015. Bromont is a community of 10,000 people in the Eastern Townships, about an hour east of Montreal. Despite the language challenge, Mark and I were able to connect with many of the land surveyors on the first day through sport, where members could participate in either golf, a 100 km road bike ride or a mountain bike ride. Because of the overlap with the Manitoba meeting, there was a mix of visiting delegates from other provinces, including some Presidents, several Vice Presidents, and some council members. Several CPD sessions were held on Friday, and with mandatory CPD in effect, there was a strong turnout of 6

members for this portion of the congress. In the morning session, two dynamic CPAs from Grant Thorton presented an interesting session about cost recovery in business, made suggestions about how to properly evaluate the true cost of doing business and the importance of going through the exercise of a break-even analysis. Having the session delivered in French took my love for accounting to a whole new level! The afternoon sessions were on the topic of customer service, communication and managing expectations. I wish I had taken a picture of the room as it was almost unbelievable - it was probably a 7,500 square foot ballroom with theater seating, completely packed with land surveyors and students.

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The business meeting was held on Saturday morning, with a distinctly smaller turn out than the previous day. The OAGQ will be reducing the size of the council and have decided not to renew the contract for their full time legal counsel. They are very concerned about demographics and the subsequent budget implications and thus have been trying to reduce costs. In the past year, six cases of illegal practice were opened and eight were closed. A court case against Genivar was decided in the courts, with Genivar being acquitted of all charges. Despite losing the case, the Association felt that pursing the illegal practice in court sent a strong message. There was a lengthy discussion regarding insurance there seems to be some uncertainty regarding the liability insurance and the level of coverage upon retirement. This discussion started after the insurance presentation and came back as a motion from the floor under new business, asking council to investigate the definition and the coverage for various classifications of members (such as retired, deceased).

A deficit budget was presented. From the conversation, it appears to have occurred in the past also and is at least partially attributed to CPD, which must not operate under a cost-recovery model. At the time of the meeting, they were behind in anticipated revenue for the 2015 year. The fee structure in Quebec is different depending on whether or not you are a company owner vs. employee vs. educator vs. retired. For example, a Quebec Land Surveyor who is a business owner will pay $2740 per year, while a land surveyor employed by a company would pay only $1322. A special resolution was brought forward, a "cotisation supplementaire" of $300 per member for CPD funding. This would be part of a three year plan to reduce the deficit. Interestingly, they only vote on a motion if someone calls for a vote, so this motion passed without anyone requesting a vote. Pierre Tessier will serve as President in the coming year for the 5th time. My French language training helped to keep me in the game throughout the trip. I was pleased to be able to function without a J-C as my full time translator!

Manitoba Annual General Meeting … Lakeview Hecla Resort By Steve Buzikievich, BCLS, Past President

The 135th Manitoba AGM was held about 2½ hours north of Winnipeg at the Lakeview Hecla Resort on the shores of Lake Winnipeg on September 17th & 18th, 2015. Their AGM was preceded with one day of seminars. The first seminar was by George Schlagintweit, Operations Manager, Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS). Part of his seminar was on the role of the CHS in the successful 2014 Franklin Expedition. I had failed to appreciate the vast distances that are dealt with in the north. The initial search area was covered with ice so they went to the secondary search area which was ice free that year, a full day's sail away from the primary site. The oral history of the Inuit had always said that there was one ship in one area and another ship in another area. He explained how the discovery of the ship was basically by fluke in that a ground party from the CHS went ashore to set up a GPS base station for control in the sounding/ scanning of the secondary search area. When they landed on a random small island a piece of debris on the barren island was noticed. An archeologist with the party quickly identified the wood and metal debris as a piece of something owned by the British Admiralty. The scanning around the island quickly found the ship. The Inuit oral history had always reported a ship had been seen in this area.

The second part of his seminar was on the CHS activity in the north and which areas the CHS has sounding/scanning data on. Basically there is very little data in consideration of the vast areas involved. With global warming more ice is melting back leaving more ocean ice free and more exploration is taking place. The lack of marine charts makes ship travel off charted routes very hazardous. The federal government sees economic benefit in the north. The Canadian military sees the importance of the protection of Canadian sovereignty claims in the north. Private companies see opportunities in the north. With all these interests the CHS has managed to get installed sounding and scanning equipment in military and private ships. These ships will be collecting data on every trip and thus the CHS can broaden their charting with data acquisition from the data collection of the other sources. A second seminar was on Unmanned Aerial Systems by Ryan Brazeal of Caltech Survey Ltd. Ryan went over the mapping project they completed of the Rouge Urban National Park. The Rouge Urban National Park starts on Lake Ontario and follows up the Rouge River through part of the City of Toronto. A long linear natural park surrounded by the City of Toronto and suburbs. He explained the

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problems of mapping a pretty large area with a drone. The restrictions of flying within visual range, flying close to residences and major highways. The number of ground control points needed and other logistical problems. The business portion of the AMLS was commenced Friday morning. After the Call to Order, the first item of business was a presentation by Barry Effler, RegistrarGeneral of Manitoba to gain input from the membership on the proclamation date of the new Land Surveyors Act. The Manitoba Association has lots of work to yet complete in new by-laws that are required to accompany changes brought forward in their new Act. There was quite a bit of discussion as to pros and cons of certain dates. A motion was passed that the AMLS would request a date of March 31st, 2016 for the proclamation of the new Land Surveyors Act.

Michael Pare was elected for president. Two new members were introduced to the general membership. There was then a presentation by Connie Villari, President of MSPLS (Minnesota Society of Professional Land Surveyors) about an initiative put forward by FIG to try and get young professional surveyors engaged on an international level. In conjunction with FIG the Minnesota Society is hosting a young surveyors meeting on February 10th, 2016. More information is available on the FIG website. The AMLS budget was presented and passed with no discussion. Manitoba is kind of unique in the setting of annual fees. The budget is passed, the amount is divided by the number of active members and each members' fees are set. This year the approximate annual fee for a Manitoba land Surveyor is about $2,740.93. No new business was brought to the floor and the meeting was adjourned.

Association of Nova Scotia Land Surveyors AGM … October 14th - 16th, 2015 By Ron Johns, BCLS, Vice President

The ANSLS 65th AGM was held at the Atlantica Oak Island Resort, close to the fabled Oak Island where it is believed that Captain Kidd buried his treasure. The presidents' forum was held on Wednesday morning with all provinces represented except NB, PEI and NFLD. Following the presidents forum, all AGM attendee's and their partners were invited on a boat tour of the local area including Mahone Bay with a stop in the historic town of Chester. The icebreaker was held on Wednesday evening and was well attended. The AGM commenced on Thursday morning with 126 members in attendance plus the traveling delegates. The President and Executive Director addressed the meeting and spoke on a number of relevant topics and recent undertakings. The Nova Scotia government is entertaining the idea of privatizing the LTO and the Association has not been consulted in a formal way for input. A request has been sent to the government for a seat at the table so that concerns can be addressed and discussions around implementation can take place. A provincial active control system is in the final stages of development with 40 stations, most of which are already active. Georeferencing of surveys to passive control has been a requirement throughout the entire province for 8

close to 50 years. Plans show co-ordinates, however due to changing datum's over the years and lower precision of co-ordinate values on some plans due to lengthy traverses to control points, there is considerable concern around how to "relate" the new GNSS co-ordinates with previous ones shown on plans. Some surveyors are now showing new co-ordinate values obtained from the active control and others are shifting the new co-ordinates to agree with those on a given plan and displaying local coordinates. Without standards in place to insure consistency, misinterpretation is a concern. The Executive Director receives one or two calls per week regarding boundary disputes and advises those individuals to contact a surveyor in their area. He also reported there are three active complaints against members, however most are near resolution and none will result in discipline. Elections were held for the Board and Jim McIntosh, NSLS, CLS and Kevin Brown, PEng, NSLA, PEILS were elected as president and vice president, both by acclamation. The balance of their Board consists of four councillors, one public representative and a government appointee. The government appointee is the provincial director of surveys.

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A dues increase of $300 was proposed to cover a deficit from the previous year and was passed with a clear majority. The deficit was partly due to the PSC all in model. During the second half of the morning session, Mark Sampson from the CG&B Group, provided a talk on Professional Liabilitly insurance, focusing on risk management, common errors and potential pitfalls. He provided a claims history for NSLS citing that of the 21 claims in the last five years, 19% were layout related and 79% were title related. (I suspect the lack of a Torrens style title system in Nova Scotia leads to many title claims). The afternoon session was spent deliberating on the implementation of a new 'Standards of Practice' document. This is the equivalant of our Survey Rules, however is much less prescriptive and is contained within a 14 page document. The previous standards were adopted in 1999 with many revisions since. The majority of the discussion centered around the inclusion of a requirement for mandatory filing of posting plans. Until now, surveyors have not been required to file these plans at the Land Title Office and often the only records lie within individual surveyor's offices. An amendment to remove this requirement from the proposed standards was put forward, however it failed with 40% in favor of the amendment. Protection of the public interest, difficulty in accessing private records and increased liability for overlooking evidence were the key issues resulting in support of this new requirement. After a few more minor amendments, the entire document was accepted by the membership with a large majority vote. I was pleased to have been present during these discussions, as we too will be facing a rewrite of our rules in the near future. The meeting was followed by a dinner dance in which the Board and delegates were piped in by one of their members who has done it for over 30 years. This reminded me of how Mark McGladrey, BCLS graced our meetings in the same fashion for so many years. During the dinner, delegates and new members were introduced, the Order of the Good Time (a 400 year old tradition) was bestowed on those "from away", the new president was introduced and past president Jody and Sonja were thanked for their contributions over the past year. CPD seminars were held on the Friday. The first seminar was delivered by Jason Bond, P.Eng, PhD. His presentation was titled The Nova Scotia Co-ordinate Reference System and covered details of the new provincial active control network, including various ways to access and use the system. Of interest was the plan to maintain approximately 1000 of

the 23000 existing passive monuments in the province. The objective is to update the co-ordinates for the monuments for ground proofing of equipment and redundancy in the unlikely event of some failure in the GNSS system. Once three sets of data from four different users are received by NRCAN, provided all the positions are within 2 cm, a new updated co-ordinate will be published by NRCAN and the Province. A members and guests lunch was held to formally install the new president, after which ACLS president Anne Cole, CLS,OLS gave a short presentation on the requirements and process to become a Canada Land Surveyor. Anne also took the opportunity to invite everyone to the National Surveyors Conference to be held in Ottawa on March 1st and 2nd, 2017. The conference will include the AGM's of the Association of Ontario Land Surveyors, Association of Canada Land Surveyors and the Ordre des arpenteurs geometres du Quebec. The second seminar was titled The Surveyor and Boundary Conflict-Maintaining the Client Relationship, presented by Izaak de Rijcke. Mr. de Rijcke is a lawyer, OLS and adjunct professor at York University. He is also the author of the text Principles of Boundary Law in Canada. The subject material included the role of land surveyors with the client, neighbours and the courts, impacts of boundary conflicts on third parties and the public, and surveyors as expert witnesses. The finale of the AGM was an informal lobster dinner on Friday night. Marna and I very much appreciated the opportunity to represent the ABCLS on behalf of our President Bronwyn. Thank you to the members of the ANSLA for their sincere maritime hospitality.

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Association of Prince Edward Island Land Surveyors AGM, October 21st - 23rd, 2015 By Ron Johns, BCLS, Vice President

The APEILS 47th AGM was held at the Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlottetown. The venue was constructed in 1964 with funding from all provinces as a tribute to the Fathers of Confederation. It's outstanding architecture and design make it a magnificent gathering place. The meeting date was chosen to coincide with the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the making of the Samuel Holland map of PEI. The Exhibit has been a huge public media event, showcasing surveying and map making and has provided valuable public relations for the association. The meeting started on Wednesday morning with an impressive opening ceremony. Dignitaries included the Lieutenant Governor The Honourable Frank Lewis, Honourable Paula Biggar the Minister of Transportation, Infrastructure and Energy and Mike Duffy, Deputy Mayor. Members and delegates attended the AGM which convened at 10:00 am. President Jamie Clow presided over the meeting and reported on activities over the past year as follows: Work is continuing on a "survey plan standards" policy. One did not exist previously and as a result, there are large differences between various surveyors' plans. Two official complaints were filed against members, one of which was closed without disciplinary measures and investigations are ongoing on the other. Initial talks with the Provincial Government regarding revisions to the Land Survey Act were held prior to the Provincial election and it is hoped that the Government will continue to involve the association in the writing of the new Act. Jamie thanked Serge Bernard, PEILS for his enormous involvement in planning and organizing the AGM. A two year Budget was presented and approved. It was noted that if one member retires it causes a 10% reduction in the gross revenue! Currently there are 12 practicing members, six non practicing members and two life members. A number of short reports were presented including Board of Examiners, Acts and Bylaws, CBEPS and complaints and discipline. 10

Nominees for Council positions were voted on by an email balloting process. Newly elected members are President Dereck French, PEILS, Vice President Anthony Inman, PEILS and Sec-Treasurer Mark Wight, PEILS. The delegates were given an opportunity to speak on behalf of their associations. All provinces except Quebec were represented, making for a well-rounded national report. The meeting adjourned at 10:45 a.m. (Forty-five minutes!!) The afternoon session consisted of a panel presentation on PEI's Active Control system. The presenters covered the history of control surveys in PEI, Land Registration Systems and implementation and use of the new provincial active control. The Presidents forum was held after the afternoon session and was followed by an Icebreaker Reception. CPD seminars were held on Thursday. The first seminar was titled "The Role of the Land Surveyor as a Public Officer and Expert Witness", presented by Izaak de Rijcke. Mr. de Rijcke is a lawyer, OLS and adjunct professor at York University. He is also the author of the text Principles of Boundary Law in Canada. He cited a number of court cases and reviewed the role of expert witnesses as set out in those decisions. The luncheon speaker was Mr. Earl Locherby, author of the book Samuel Holland-His Work and Legacy on Prince Edward Island. Mr. Locherby spoke about the life of Samuel Holland, including details of how his surveys were conducted and how the map was produced. There is a direct correlation between the initial survey lines surveyed by Holland and the existing modern day lines. The afternoon seminar was presented by Mr. Bob Aaron, a lawyer specializing in Real Estate Law. He spoke on the importance of getting a survey done at the time of real estate transactions vs relying on Title Insurance. He cited may court cases involving homeowners who did not obtain a surveyors certificate at the time of purchase and demonstrated that they would not have ended up in court if a survey had been performed. On Friday, members, delegates and partners were introduced to the curators of the Samuel Holland Exhibit. They provided a detailed recount of the process of restoring

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the map, its travels from England and its display at this venue. The heart of the Exhibit was the original Holland map measuring three by four metres, however the hall was filled with many other early maps, and display cases of equipment and artifacts In true maritime fashion, the final event was a lobster dinner accompanied by live Celtic music. The audience

joined in singing some of the more well-known tunes, making for a truly memorable evening and fine ending. Marna and I appreciated the opportunity to represent the Association of BC Land Surveyors on behalf of our President Bronwyn. We enjoyed our time spent at the AGM and in Charlottetown, a city in which the historic fabric has been so well preserved. Many thanks to the warm hospitality of the Prince Edward Island Land Surveyors.

Surveyor General's Datum Land Title and Survey Authority (LTSA) of British Columbia ... Update By Mike Thomson, BCLS, Surveyor General

This article is based on information shared with those in attendance at the Regional Group Meetings as part of the annual ABCLS Traveling Board trip September 28th October 2nd, 2015. Information is updated where available to November 9th, 2015 1. Introduction It was my pleasure to again be part of the traveling Board, to provide the ABCLS Membership with an update on activities of the Land Title and Survey Authority, in particular the Surveyor General Division. The LTSA, is experiencing the busiest year, in terms of land title activity, we have seen since the 2007-08 fiscal year. In the Surveyor General Division, we are not quite as busy as our land title colleagues are, but business activity is certainly active. At the corporate level we note that our new fee schedule, through the Fee Simplification project, went into force on November 1st, 2015 and we remain focused on ParcelMap BC. I will talk about each in more detail a little later in this discussion. The LTSA also completed a major website refresh. This work was necessary as a result of our Fee Simplification project, which has dictated a re-organization of the current website. At the end of the day, it is a re-organization and not a re-write of content, so hopefully there are only small impacts on customers and all for the better. In the time since the ABCLS AGM, we have been able to participate in a number of public outreach activities. We were able to update participants at seven ICIS User Conferences, speaking to our ParcelMap BC project. These conferences occurred in Kamloops, Dawson Creek, Prince George, Terrace, Nelson, Burnaby and in Nanaimo. We will

also participate in an ICIS User Conference scheduled for November 25th, 2015 in Victoria. In addition, while in Prince George we were able to participate in the Local Government Management Association's Approving Officer's workshop. On July 11th, 2015, I was privileged to be in attendance at the official opening of McVittie House in Fort Steele. The work done on McVittie House by the dedicated group of volunteers is simply outstanding. The rooms inside the house are 'just perfect'. The ceremony was well organized and well attended. On the day itself many should be thanked, not the least of which are Robert Allen, John Armstrong, Bill Chapman and Denny DeMeyer. I would be remiss, however, if I did not remark on the effort shown by Bronwyn Denton, the ABCLS president. No ABCLS president has ever gone where Bronwyn went. She was dressed in costume that fit the time period of the McVittie's. It was a very warm day and complete with a fancy hat, a long skirt, full sleeves and gloves; I do not know how she made it through the day. Within the context of the LTSA Strategic Plan, we remain focused on our mission to deliver responsive and trusted expertise and reliable land title and survey systems, which are essential to BC's economic and social foundation.

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2. Organizational Changes The biggest organizational change that the LTSA currently faces is the retirement of the only President and CEO that the organization has known, Godfrey Archbold. Godfrey has announced his intention to retire effective January 31st, 2016. The LTSA Board has formed a selection committee and hired a search firm, Vancouver based PFM Executive Search, to search for a replacement. The successful candidate will have very big shoes to fill. Godfrey was within government prior to the formation of the LTSA and was an integral part of the process that resulted in the creation of the LTSA. From the perspective of the Surveyor General Division, he has always been a strong supporter of the work we do and perhaps most critically, may be the one non-land surveyor who best understands the role of the Surveyor General. Godfrey knows the history and the contributions that the land surveying profession has made to the growth and development of BC - he has been an advocate for land surveyors and we will miss his leadership. Within the Surveyor General Division, Linda Pakos, the Team Lead for our Surveyor General Services business unit will be retiring at the end of November 2015. We will miss Linda, not only for the work she accomplished, but because she does a great job keeping us all focused on service delivery. We have recently completed a renovation in our Victoria headquarters and land title office. As we have seen a significant reduction in front counter visit's over the years we have closed our first floor front counter and moved those services to the 2nd floor. This has resulted in a re-organization of the 2nd floor facilities, including the vault. In November we added three Parcel Fabric Technicians to our ParcelMap BC operations team based in downtown Vancouver. We note that Bert Hol and O'Brian Blackall continue as the ABCLS nominees on the LTSA Board of Director's. 3. Highlights and Achievements Our 2014/2015 annual report, for the period ending March 3 1st, 2015 was released in June 2015, just prior to the LTSA AGM. We were pleased to have Chuck Salmon, Chad Rintoul and Shauna Goertzen, Chair of the External Relations Committee in attendance at the LTSA AGM. An all-day Strategic Planning Session with the Board and the LTSA Executive Team preceded the AGM on June 23rd, 2015. 12

Some quick numerical highlights from the 2014/2015 annual report, numbers I had included in my Spring Regional Group meetings update: ● The land title offices processed 710,000 land title registration applications, a 6% increase from the 670,000 in the previous year. ● There were 9,534 plans filed in the land title office, of which 99.2% were filed electronically. ● The 9,534 total plans were some 10.9% below the 10,703 survey plans received in the 2013/2014 fiscal year. ● We note that in the first seven months of the current year the total number of plans filed in the land title office (6,423) is 7.3% above the 5,985 plans in the same seven months in calendar 2014. 3.1 Fee Simplification As a brief recap, in the spring legislative session, the Minister of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations (MFLNRO) introduced Bill 25 the Forests, Lands and Natural Resources Operations Statutes Amendment Act. Section 46 included significant changes to Schedule 2 of the Land Title Act, ostensibly the statutory fees charged for land title services. It also resulted in changes to fees the Surveyor General Division charges for services that fall in statute under the Land Title Act. This would include things like a section 94(1)(c) accretion application or a block outline posting under section 69(3). The fees were grouped to create a limited number of fee categories. Under the Land Title Act, this saw the number of fee categories drop from 69 to 10. A much easier Fee Schedule for most of our customers to understand. Applications have been grouped into similar categories such that a plan or charge will have the same fee no matter the type of plan or charge, excepting a section 68 Land Title Act posting plan which will continue to have a 'nil' fee. This means some Land Title Act fees have decreased in cost, where some have increased. The majority of SG services now fall within one of two fee categories. This has resulted in a tremendous amount of work for the LTSA, because Bill 25 only addressed the government's

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portion of Land Title Act fees. The instructions for the LTSA were that at the end of the day our total annual revenue should be the same before and after the changes in the fees in the Bill. This was a tremendous task, as you have to model how many of each application type you get to make this work. We also had to consider the Administrative Fees not in Schedule 2 and the various Surveyor General Services under the Land Act, and even the Mineral Tenure Act and Oil and Gas Activities Act. We were also careful to harmonize fees for both Land Title and Surveyor General Division online versus face-toface services. For some of these services we have created a pricing that closer reflects the cost of providing that service. The new fees were brought into force November 1st, 2015. In summary, we moved from 69 to 10 fees under the Land Title Act and we moved to a single LTSA-wide fee for each of photocopies, mailings, image-scanning requests with these Administrative Fees moving from 16 fee categories to 11. Other fees, primarily SG services, move from 14 fee categories to 12. There are three things that I want to mention, so you are not surprised. Firstly, in the first ten years of operation the LTSA, the Surveyor General Division, did not receive a fee when processing an application under section 58 of the Land Act or section 108(5) of the Land Title Act. The entire $500 fee went to government. Through work with a Fee Commissioner, the LTSA will now receive $202.39 for each such application, meaning a fairly significant fee increase for these two application types. Secondly, the SG has provided services under section 218(1)(d) and 219(3)(c) to designate who may hold a statutory right-of-way or a covenant for nil fees. These were areas of significant growth in the business and there is now a fee, the same fee, $449.79 for most all other Land Title Act statutory services provided by the SG. Finally, the re-organization in Administrative Fees is significant and I do not want you to be surprised. The fees are established such that if LTSA staff has to locate and retrieve the record that will draw a fee, then there is the same fee as retrieving an image from myLTSA for an image copy of that record. The largest impact for land surveyors in this area will be for orders from the SG vault. Feel free to discuss this with our vault staff the first time you have an order.

3.2 ParcelMap BC At the Regional Group meetings I provided a PowerPoint presentation on our ParcelMap BC project. The discussion below has been updated based on information current to November 9th, 2015. I want to make sure all land surveyors have a sense of the timing for both the voluntary and critically the mandatory submission of Survey Plan Datasets to support ParcelMap BC. Our primary objective of the ParcelMap BC project is to deliver a single, complete, trusted, and sustainable map of all titled and surveyed provincial Crown land parcels.

Here is some specific information about the project:

● The PMBC project Cadastral Tie collection has completed. 2,623 field ties were made, 38 above the project baseline of 2,585. We also have 4,488 ties from plans in Integrated Survey Area's (ISA's) included in the fabric. ● We accepted delivery of Increment No. 1 the Nanaimo Regional District from the build team at MDA and MNC (Martin Newby Corporation) on August 7th, 2015. The learnings were significant in completing Increment No. 1 and we feel the additional time it has taken to reach this point will serve us well as we move through the other 19 increments. Our PMBC Operations Team accepted increment No. 1 into production on September 30th, 2015. The team is now working on a series of 'catch-ups' plans, being those registered during the build period. ● As of November 9th, 2015 Increment No. 2, the Cowichan Valley Regional District, compilation is complete, factory testing is complete and acceptance is on target for November 20th, 2015. ● Increment No. 3, the Capital Regional District, compilation is complete with a target date of December 11th, 2015 for LTSA acceptance. A large number of 'difficult' missing parcels have been dealt with in this increment. ● Increments No. 5 and 6, the Fraser Fort George and Bulkley-Nechako RD's, compilation is at 90% complete with a target date of January 29th, 2016 for LTSA acceptance. ● Increments No. 7 and 9, the Kitimat-Stikine, Skeena Queen Charlotte, Central Coast and Cariboo RD's, compilation work is now underway and approximately 70% complete with a target date of February 28th, 2016 for LTSA acceptance.

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● Increments No. 11 and 12, the Columbia-Shuswap, East Kootenay, North Okanagan, Central Kootenay and Kootenay Boundary RD's, compilation work is underway and is approximately 10% complete. Acceptance is targeted for April 29, 2016. ● Increments No. 10 and 13, the Thompson-Nicola, Okanagan-Similkameen and Central Okanagan RD's the source data has been acquired and data assessment is underway. It is anticipated that compilation will commence the week of November 23rd , 2015. ● Increments No. 14 and 15, the Fraser Valley, Powell River, Squamish-Lillooet and Sunshine Coast RD's remains on target for commencement of 'data assessment' in January 2016. ● Once the build of Increments No. 14 and No. 15 commence we will re-plan the build of Increments No. 1620, being the Lower Mainland to a more logical increment size and shape. ● Please note: Increment No. 4, the Alberni-Clayoquot, Comox Valley, Strathcona and Mount Waddington RD's is scheduled to commence compilation in March 2016. GeoBC (the Parcel Fabric Section) remains on target to complete improvements in many areas in Increment No. 4, including the Comox Valley and Alberni-Clayoquot, by February 1st, 2016. The increment build schedule for Increment No. 8, the Northern Rockies and Peace River RD's continues to be targeted to commence construction in March 2016. See below.

look for these announcements through the ABCLS Office Updates and consider signing-up for training. ● We remain on target for the Surveyor Search and Download tools being enabled March 20th, 2016. ● As noted during the Board Trip, the date for the mandatory submission of Survey Plan Datasets is April 4th, 2016. I do not see that date shifting, so I would encourage land surveyors to keep this date in mind. Both the Survey Plan Dataset Specification and Practice Bulletin No. 3, the Surveyor General's Requirements for the Submission of Survey Plan Datasets to Support ParcelMap BC have been published to the LTSA website. You will note an important distinction with regards to the date shift. The actual requirement is: All plans1 specified in Section 5 of this Bulletin filed after April 4th, 2016 with an electronic checklist date of March 1st, 2016 or later ... and All plans1 specified in Section 5 of this Bulletin filed after September 1st, 2016 regardless of the electronic checklist date We continue to work with stakeholder organizations, which supported the development of the PMBC business case through the PMBC Advisory Committee, including: ● The Province of British Columbia ● Integrated Cadastral Information Society - ICIS ● The Association of BC Land Surveyors - ABCLS ● BC Assessment Authority – BCA

● We remain on target to reach full operational capacity by March 31st, 2017.

● The ParcelMap BC Advisory Committee is scheduled to meet December 17, 2015.

● A number of land surveyors have participated in sessions to look at wireframes for surveyor tools. These meetings took place between October 16 and 23, 2015. The feedback was excellent and greatly appreciated.

● The Land Surveyors Advisory Task Force (LSATF) met October 8, 2015. The LSATF will meet again on December 17th, 2015

● Our Survey Plan Dataset Submission tools were delivered into production on October 25th, 2015 and are now fully operational. We have sent invitations to a pilot group of users and will be holding a training session with this group on November 10th, 2015. ● Soon after we will announce training in a series of webinars between November 2015 and March 2016. Please 14

Brian Greening, John Hay and Peter Haas are doing a wonderful job on the project and I cannot thank them enough for all their tremendous work. This is not to discount the other members of the team who also deliver great value, including all the staff in the Surveyor General Division that are supporting the Project. We live it every day, but we are starting to taste the reality of the project.

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The LTSA greatly appreciates the support of all members of the Land Surveyors Advisory Task Force. Their input has indeed been very valuable. 4. Surveyor General Division - Minor Updates Tax Certificates on Line The LTSA has added a new, third party service to the myLTSA platform. As of July 27th, 2015, customers can order electronic municipal tax certificates using their myLTSA Enterprise account. The Tax Certificates Online (TCOL) service can be accessed under Service Providers in the navigation menu or from the myLTSA Enterprise welcome page. Using a Parcel Identifier (PID), roll number or manufactured home number, myLTSA Enterprise customers can now order tax certificates from participating municipalities in British Columbia and pay using their myLTSA deposit account. 86 local governments are on board. Once ordered, the electronic tax certificate is delivered to the customer's myLTSA Inbox and forwarded

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November 2015. The meeting will be hosted by GeoBC and attended by other government staff and myself. CCOG is composed of various federal, provincial and territorial staff engaged in the delivery of 'geomatics' based services.

10 Alberta-BC boundaries Monuments in the vicinity of Elk Pass. The inspection survey had been completed in 2012. We let a contract to complete the monument restoration work in 2013, however the Summer flooding in Alberta destroyed all access points to the area. In spring 2015, we re-tendered the contract.

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I am happy to report that as of early August all 10 monuments had been restored or re-established. The last task, to go back in and tie each monument creating a GNSS coordinate for each has been completed. Dave Swaile will prepare an article for the next Edition of the Link.

Working with the Alberta Boundary Commissioner, Ravi Shrivastava and the Federal Boundary Commissioner, Peter Sullivan, Surveyor General of Canada Lands, a contract was let in spring 2015 to restore or re-establish a series of

In closing, I would encourage anyone who is interested in knowing more about the LTSA to take a tour through our website at www.ltsa.ca.

Originally a 'surveying and mapping' organization the focus today is much more towards the production and delivery of geomatics data.

Chief Administrative Officer From the CAO

By Chad Rintoul, Chief Administrative Officer One of the strengths of our relatively small Association is the depth of member participation. Our extensive committee and work group structure is well populated with engaged and dedicated volunteers. In comparison, standing for election to the Board of Management may be a more challenging decision for many members. Perhaps it's the "risk" associated with the election process, or there may be a perception that the commitment to serve on the Board is onerous. The Association is professionally managed by a very dedicated staff. The role of a director is to fulfill governance responsibilities and provide oversight, with an aim to ensure the protection of the public interest. Certainly it takes time to prepare and participate in Board and committee meetings, but it is an important contribution that directors make when giving back to the profession. This year marks the first time when the Association has constituted a formal "nominating committee" to assist the Past President with the recruitment of candidates for the Board of Management election. The catalyst for establishing this committee was a member motion from 16

the floor during the Penticton Annual General Meeting. At the June 2015 Board of Management meeting, Terms of Reference and a dedicated Nominating Committee was established to include the Past President, President, Vice President, Surveyor General, and the Chief Administrative Officer. Despite the fresh approach and renewed effort to encourage members to stand for election this year, the uptake to date has been less than overwhelming. It seems that no matter what mechanism is in place, the reality is that members still struggle with the difficult decision to put their name forward for election. We have had tremendous success attracting bright young professionals to become land surveyors. Diversity on the Board leads to new perspectives. Many senior members in the Association have had their turn to lead and, in doing so, have shaped the direction of the Association. The challenge now is for younger members and those at the mid-point of their careers to step up and take their turn providing leadership to the Association. My appreciation to all of those members who have contributed selflessly to the success of this professional Association, and I encourage those of you giving future consideration to serving on the Board to ask questions (of myself and others on the Nominating Committee) about the commitment, so that next year - you are ready to take the plunge!

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Robert's Corner McVittie House and Land Surveying Office 2015 Work Party and Grand Opening By Robert Allen, BCLS (Life Member), CLS, CIG (Life Member), Chair Historical and Biographical Committee

Numerous articles about Thomas Thane McVittie have been written in The Link and other magazines. For the most recent biographical information on him, please see the August 2014 issue of The Link. The 2015 work party at McVittie House and Land Surveying Office in Fort Steele Heritage Town took place from July 5th to July 11th. Over the course of the week, there were twelve Land Surveyors and spouses and friends there to help out. They were John Armstrong, Carol Armstrong, Robert Allen, Ken Allred, Bill Chapman, Denny DeMeyer, Delores DeMeyer, Ian Emmerson, Dave Hall, Jim Halliday, Mary McDowell, and Mike Rogers. Denny and Delores are from Birch Bay, WA, and Jim, Ian, and Ken are all Alberta Land Surveyors. Mary is a Washington State Land Surveyor and she lives in Everett, WA. Mike is an LST in Cranbrook and Dave is now retired, but did work for Jim Sharpe in Cranbrook.

The finished living room

As in 2014, Fort Steele Heritage Town also provided two of their staff to help us with whatever we needed and they were Brad Froggatt, Manager of Heritage Services and Jessica Vanoostwaard, Assistant Manager of Heritage Services. Like last year, they were most helpful and gave us all the support we needed. Faith put together a Power Point that was on a continuous loop and it showed the history of the work parties since the beginning of the project. Dai Yates, who had joined us in previous years, had a family commitment at home that prevented him from attending and he had sent his regrets. One evening we were given a talk and a presentation by Joseph Cross, a well-known artist, and his wife, Sharon, on their dedication towards preserving the history of David Thompson. They had followed in Thompson's footsteps in numerous places and Joseph has painted a number of scenes depicting Thompson's travels. On a different evening we were treated yet again to another social at John and Carol Armstrong's home where we spent time socializing and also meeting others who had worked on the project in the past. Because McVittie House was basically completed in 2014, our main push was to complete the office in time for the grand opening. John had a comprehensive work plan drawn up and we followed it and got everything done in

The master bedroom time. We did some cleaning, painting, carpentry repairs, window replacements, picked up various furnishings around Fort Steele, and put the office desks, tables, chairs, etc. together to make it look like an old survey office. In the week we were there, we put in 440 hours of time on site. This did not include any travel time to/from Cranbrook or travel time to/from our motel. We all covered our own expenses to get to Cranbrook and back as well as our meals and motel costs. We had a guest book on display and in the first six days, we had 428 people sign in.

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A number of people also wrote in to the Association Office to comment on the work we had done. Two quotes from some of the folks are below. "Thanks for your time, effort and funding. We feel it's a very worthwhile project." "Our visit to Fort Steele on July 11, 2015 was enhanced greatly by the opening of McVittie House and Land Surveying Office. The persons who were attending to the house and office were tremendous. This was a great addition to the heritage of the area. The number of hours to renovate the premises and bring them back to a state where you can actually envision history is a great benefit. My wife and I congratulate the persons who provided their expertise, hard labour and funding to this project. A great job and a tribute to your Association."

Bill Chapman, Bronwyn Denton, Mike Thomson, Robert Allen, and John Armstrong with the presentation from the Land Title and Survey Authority that is now hanging in McVittie's Office

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Robert Allen and Bronwyn Denton flanking Naomi Miller and her Certificate of Appreciation from the Association of British Columbia Land Surveyors

The grand opening took place at 1:00 pm on Saturday, July 11th and we were honoured to have in attendance the Honorable Bill Bennett, MLA for Kootenay East and Minister of Energy and Mines and Minister Responsible for Core Review. We were also honoured by having our own president, Bronwyn Denton, and our Surveyor General, Mike Thomson, join us as well. Other British Columbia Land Surveyors (Brian Brown, Rick Clendenning, Jon (and Faith) Magwood, and Martin (and Hanna) Schulze) and a number of Alberta Land Surveyors and many other history buffs also joined us. Some of the latter were local while others came from Alberta (Glen Belbeck), Montana (Carl and Linda Heywood), and Burnaby (Jay Sherwood). We even had one guest (Barbara Locke) from Chile, South America. It was very encouraging to see such a turnout of interested people.

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Brad Froggatt, Manager of Heritage Services at Fort Steele Heritage Town, addressing the folks at the opening ceremony (note the flagging that was tied between two old transits)

The Honorable Bill Bennett, Brad Froggatt, and Bronwyn Denton preparing to cut the opening ribbon (orange, pink, and blue flagging) ... officially opening McVittie House and Land Surveying Office.

There wasn't anyone who wasn't impressed. It was a job well done by many volunteers over a number of years but the end result surpassed anything that I would have imagined. Thank you to all the volunteers over the years. You did us all proud. For anyone travelling through the East Kootenay, please stop by Fort Steele Heritage Town and take in all the exhibits, not just McVittie House and Land Surveying Office. I'm sure you will be impressed as well.

Bulletins Surveyors on Bikes (SOB) Island Ride By Len Orrico, BCLS

The 2015 Vancouver Island SOB ride got under way on July 18th at 11:30 a.m. with the arrival of Brian Brown and George Eaton at the 50th parallel marker south of Campbell River together with a text message from Minda Riley informing us that she would be arriving later due to a battery failure in fiancée Jack Kotaba's bike. The marker is at one of the points of commencement of the E & N land grant and was chosen to continue the theme established two years ago by SOB Stan Nickel of choosing set points with a survey related theme. Allen Cox and myself, together with our wives, Brenda Cox and Jan Orrico, and with George and Brian rode into Campbell River for lunch at the Riptide Pub and the humourous banter began immediately between Brian and George and the server. After lunch we gassed up and headed west toward the Myra Falls mine. In doing so, we crossed the Ralph River, named for William Ralph who surveyed the western boundary of the Land Grant and continued to

the active mine area. The mine sits in Strathcona Provincial Park which contains many features named either for or by land surveyors, including Jim Mitchell Lake named after a 17 year old survey assistant who died in an accident while working in the park in the 1930s. After exploring as much of the mine area as permitted, we continued to Gold River and registered at the motel and then proceeded into town to shop for necessities. After replenishing critical lost fluids, the six of us wandered up to the pub\restaurant for dinner. Minda Riley and Jack Kotaba joined us at that point and we ordered our meals just before a large group of very well-lubricated Harley riders arrived. They were to provide entertainment later on when a midnight fist fight broke out in the parking lot in front of our rooms.

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On Sunday morning we met in the motel's hospitality room for a continental breakfast. George and Brian had already headed into Campbell River for a "real" breakfast and Minda and Jack, who were travelling by truck, left after breakfast to go hiking at Sayward. This left Allen and I and our wives to continue the survey themed tour down to Muchalat Inlet to pay homage to Captains Cook, Vancouver and Quadra, and to remember the great chief Maquinna, all of whom figured so prominently in the history of the area. After admiring the scenery and taking a few pictures we visited a Canadian Active Control System station at the mill site which is part of the Western Canada Deformation array measuring tectonic shift. Did I mention the spectacular scenery at the Inlet? We turned ourselves eastward and headed back to Campbell River and then took the old Island Highway for a more leisurely ride down to Fanny Bay, our final survey themed location. The name "Fanny Bay" first appears on

a chart prepared by Captain George Henry Richards, RN in the 1860s although Captain Richards did not record the origin of the name. Captain Richards is unknown to most British Columbians, but he had a career as fulsome and varied as those of Captains Cook, Vancouver, and Quadra and researching him makes interesting reading. We arrived at the Fanny Bay Inn at noon to be greeted by Leigh Millan. Leigh had been unable to attend the gathering in Gold River, but joined us for lunch. George Eaton had returned to his home in Courtenay to exchange his vintage Vincent HRD Rapide for a more comfortable BMW K-series and he and Brian joined us for an al fresco lunch at the FBI. More good humoured conversation and survey stories ensued. After lunch the group split up to head to our homes, thankful for the beautiful weather, the incomparable scenery and the good company. Many thanks to David Storback who, though unable to participate due to a work commitment, gave us some valuable information on the survey-related sites.

New Commissions Vincent Boothe … BCLS #948 Vince was commissioned by Bronwyn Denton on July 10th, 2015 at McVittie House in Fort Steele. He was born and grew up in Winnipeg. Vince chose to become a land surveyor because he likes the mix of outdoor physical work and office work. He also enjoys the technical and mathematical challenges unique to each project. Vince would like to thank Milos Hinterberger (his master) and all the people he has enjoyed working with at his office. When he is not surveying, Vince enjoys biking, skiing and photography. Bronwyn Denton and Vince Boothe 20

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John was commissioned on July 27th, 2015 by Brian Brown in Whistler, BC. He was born and grew up in Windsor, NS. John chose to become a land surveyor because he enjoys technology and the outdoors - surveying is a great mix of both. He would like to thank Brian Brown, Mike Vail, Trevor Burton, Ian Johnson, his parents John and Paula Lunn, his sister Faylene Lunn, and his many friends and mentors for helping him along the way. He would also like to thank Rob Yates and staff at McElhanney for invigilating his exam. John enjoys softball, swimming, golfing (very poorly), hockey, tennis and hiking.

John Lunn and Brian Brown

OIP Luncheon

By Wayne Griffith, BCLS, CLS, Retired, Secretary OIP Group The OIP Group held their fall luncheon beginning at the BC Farm Museum on Tuesday, September 21st, 2015. There was an excellent turnout for this event with 15 surveyors making their way to Fort Langley where the BC Farm Museum is located.

The OIP Group arrived at the museum around 10:30 a.m. and were welcomed to the exhibition by Hilary Ruffini and the voluntary staff of the BC Farm museum. Hilary and her volunteers were pleased to have such an esteemed group of retired land surveyors on hand to view the various survey panels in the display. They kept us supplied with morning coffee and acted as our tour guides throughout the morning. The survey display was Hilary's idea and the end result was a first class exhibition. Hilary first became interested in surveying in early BC after reading about Frank Swannell, PLS, DLS and his early surveys. She approached the Historical and Biographical Committee and asked for ideas to put this display together. Robert Allen and Bill Chapman were pleased to help out and even donated some of the old survey instruments and plans that made up part of the display. Hilary next contacted the office of the Surveyor General and the Royal BC Museum for suitable pictures to include in the exhibition.

Left to right: Dave Liddle, Henry Aldridge, Don Black, Hilary Ruffini, Robert Allen, Martin Schulze, George Fenning, Doug Meredith, Stan Nickel, Dai Yates, Neil Bennett … Kneeling left to right: Wayne Griffith and Bill Chapman The museum was presenting an exhibition called Hard Lines: Surveying early British Columbia. A salute to the work of the early land surveyors of BC and the instruments they used. The exhibition offered a brief history about surveying and settlement in British Columbia up to the end of the First World War.

Hilary designed and created the write ups for the various panels. She and her assistants worked for almost a year putting the panels together. The display turned out so well that the museum will probably run the exhibit next year and it could possibly become a display at one of our future annual meetings. Hilary's efforts have given land surveyors the type of public exposure that money can't buy and the OIP Group have all agreed that Hilary should be recognized for her fine work. To that end, The OIP Group has nominated her for a BCLS Certificate of Appreciation

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which she so rightly deserves. The survey community will reap the benefits from the exposure this display has afforded for some time and for this we owe Hilary and her staff one big Thank You. After the museum tour we adjourned to the Red Velvet Café for lunch and some scintillating conversation, cross table banter and a lot of laughs. It was nice to see both Stan Nickel and Robert Allen out and about after being hospitalized. Robert was sporting a walking boot cast with cane and Stan had his trusty four wheel walker with cane. Doug Meredith was also present and sporting a walking cane along with his wonderful sense of humour. Doug had missed the last three or four luncheons … it was great to see him back with the Group. The Group is starting to show signs of The Golden Years but our attendance numbers are still holding thanks to some determination and ride sharing. The Red Velvet Cafe were wonderful hosts and they provided the Group with reserved seating along with a tasty and reasonably priced luncheon menu. The luncheon was

John Nash (back) Chris James (middle) and Rick Clendenning (front) Viewing survey panels.

From the rear, left to right: Dai Yates, Rick Clendenning, Doug Meredith, Martin Schulze, Neil Bennett, Robert Allen … Lower left: Chris James, George Fenning and Stan Nickel very informal and finished just after 1:00 p.m. when we headed home after a very enjoyable day. I am sure we are all looking forward to having another good time at the upcoming January luncheon.

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Wayne Griffith (left) and Don Black (right) renewed old acquaintances â&#x20AC;Ś they last worked together in the summer of 1968 with Burnetts.

Dave Liddle (left) and Henry Aldridge (right) seem to be enjoying a good laugh as did most of us throughout the tour and luncheon.

Professional Surveyors Canada Professional Liability Insurance Committee (PLIC) By Michael Kidston, BCLS

In March I attended my first PLIC meeting, along with Greg Browne who was stepping down after 12 years representing members on this committee. It has been a learning experience to try and absorb the turmoil that has occurred around the insurance program in the past 18 months and I will try to summarize what I have learned. The Professional Liability Insurance Program has been in place for about 25 years, and the broker for this program remained constant until this past year. Management of the program was overseen by the PLIC and business was conducted based on relationships established over time. Any contractual agreements were (and are) between the individual insureds and the broker on behalf of the insurance manager (ENCON). The PLIC is not a legal entity, and has no authority or ability to be party to any contract.

When the renewals for 2014 insurance contracts became due, the PLIC felt that the broker was not providing timely and professional service and sent a Request For Proposal to the brokerage industry. After considering the proposals received, the PLIC selected the CG&B Group to be the broker for the Professional Liability Insurance Program - ENCON remained the insurance manager for the program. Without any contract between the PLIC and the broker, the Professional Surveyors Canada (PSC) PLIC was powerless to insure proper reporting, release of records, or enforcement of historical verbal agreements - hence the turmoil surrounding the renewal of professional liability insurance for the 2015 year.

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PLIC has had actuarial reports prepared at regular intervals to ensure that the professional liability insurance program was receiving good value from its broker and insurer and recently obtained legal advice on how to formalize its position in dealing with the insurance program. The actuaries have repeatedly mentioned that the PLIC should consider partial self insurance (which is used by the Ontario Land Surveyors) to control our costs should the insurance market harden and prices increase dramatically. A first step to both having contractual agreements with our broker and insurer and to potential future self insurance, is to create a legal not for profit corporation which would replace the PLIC in overseeing the professional liability insurance program. This proposal to create a not for profit organization is being presented to the Board of PSC. This may result in some motions or notices to all members of PSC in the future. The purpose of this article is to give some background and inform members of the rationale for these proposed changes. One aspect of our program that I was not aware of was the Premium Stabilization Fund. When insurance claims for a given year were below 50% of premiums, then ENCON would contribute 40% of the excess into this fund. Similarly, when claims exceeded 65% of premiums, 40% of

the deficiency was removed from the fund. The PLIC can choose to use some or all of the balance in the fund to offset premium increases in a given year. On a year when claims were high, this fund was used to maintain premiums at a constant level and avoid unpleasant surprises at renewal for participants. Other enhancements of the professional liability insurance program include the retirement coverage available, an increase in engineering specific work within the survey coverage, inclusion of coverage for disciplinary action, loss of documents, expense reimbursements for hearings, and some other benefits that the PLIC is working on with the broker. November 14th, 2015 update: The Board of PSC has supported the establishment of a not for profit corporation to manage the professional liability insurance program. This will be undertaken in the next 6-8 months, and will require an elected Board to replace the appointed PLI Committee. On reviewing ongoing claim files it becomes apparent how costly and time consuming even fairly small claims can become. The protection of the retirement coverage has certainly saved several members from claims for past actions.

Presentation of the Lifetime Achievement Award to Stan Nickel, BCLS, CLS By Chuck Salmon, BCLS

Stan Nickel articled to Jerry Ward, BCLS #511 and received his commission #665 in 1985. Stan received his license as a CLS in 1991. Stan articled Robert Neels, BCLS #715 from 1991 to 1992. Stan worked with McElhanney Associates from 1970 to 1984 starting his own practice in Chilliwack in 1985, which he operated until 2010. Stan was a member of the Practice Standards Committee in 1987, the Business Practices Committee, which he chaired, for many years as well as a member of the Practice Advisory Panel from 2005 to 2007. Stan had a passion for business practices and worked extremely hard to get all members on board with running their business in a professional manner and raising the bar with respect to our service to the public. Sometimes it wasn't an easy row to hoe, but he kept up the good fight and soldiered on, developing processes and spreadsheets that are still in use today. Stan served as Chair of the Business Practices Committee for many years. Stan traveled on his motorcycle to many of the Regional Group 24

meetings explaining the use of the spreadsheets and the importance of establishing an appropriate fee for services. Stan attended all Lower Mainland Regional Group meetings when available and all annual general meetings. He was a very strong supporter of the land surveying profession and always provided excellent input. Stan has always been a contributor to the profession including articles for The Link and participating with the "Surveyors on Bikes" (SOBs). Stan is recognized as one of the founders of the SOBs and until recently served as unofficial leader of the pack trying to get more members involved. The rides and gatherings of the SOBs result in excellent communication and camaraderie between fellow land surveyors, including land surveyors from other provinces, particularly Alberta and often included "geomatics-themed" destinations or activities on each ride. Stan is a member of the Canadian Institute of Geomatics

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(CIG) and served as Branch Chair in 1992 and 1993. Stan also served as Regional Coordinator for the Association of Canada Lands Surveyors (ACLS) in 1996 and 1997. Stan served on the Canadian Home Builders Association (CHBA) in the Chilliwack and District Branch as Secretary, Board member, Vice President and in 1992/1993 served as President. Stan received the Maple Leaf Award presented in 1993/1994 to the outstanding non-builder member of the CHBA for British Columbia for the development of the Modified Approval Process (MAP) agreement with the District of Chilliwack. This process also won Stan a Georgie Gold Award.

Stan continues to participate with the OIPs (Old Important People) in the Lower Mainland, however his ill health makes even this difficult. For his outstanding service to the land surveying profession and his community the Board of Management presented Stanley Lyle Nickel with the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Stan is a long time member of the Chilliwack and District Rotary Club, the largest in the lower mainland and has been the head of their fund raising committee for many years, raising significant funds for Rotary support to the community, while raising awareness of the profession of land surveying through his excellent work. Stan's contribution to the land surveying profession and the community exemplify an outstanding professional commitment. His record in the land surveying profession is impeccable and he has always gone out of his way to ensure that all surveys he undertook were well researched and all shreds of evidence were uncovered. Often this has resulted in him doing more work than he could bill for.

Bronwyn Denton, Chuck Salmon and Stan Nickel

Thank You to the ABCLS By Stan Nickel, BCLS, CLS

What an incredible surprise and honour for me! ... I was gob-smacked! Lifetime Achievement Award is inked onto the certificate presented to me during the Lower Mainland Regional Group meeting on Thursday, October 1st, 2015. I'd been duped into attending this meeting by my very good friend, Brian Brown, BCLS #623, who had offered to drive me to the meeting and pay for my supper. Perhaps I should have been suspicious about his generosity, but I wasn't - I had just wanted to say "yes" to his kindness. So, being clueless about any other motives, I was very relaxed at my supper table, visiting with my BCLS friends, telling stupid jokes and threatening to take agenda time,

when Chuck Salmon launched into a presentation address that I suddenly realized was about me. I was chocked, and gob-smacked! As Chuck recounted his listing about my past accomplishments I realized that I should say something to the audience to express my gratitude for this award and I also thought about providing some words of encouragement to everyone (especially to our new BCLS members) about volunteering their services to our profession and to the community which supports our careers. When it was my turn to speak, I expressed my encouraging words in terms of discovering some frustrations about the BCLS career and then using the resulting negative energy to create positive

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outcomes by engaging myself in volunteer work within our professional committees and also within other community organizations (like Rotary). To re-express that encouragement in another way, I would offer my additional thoughts about this with the following words: 1st - ask yourself "What do I really care about?" and

2nd - ask yourself "What am I really good at?" and then volunteer for a service opportunity that will fully embrace these thoughts. I'm sure that your life will be enriched many times over. In closing, I'd ask all of my ABCLS friends and colleagues to please accept my heart-felt gratitude for your kind consideration regarding this prestigious award - I am deeply honoured. All the very best to all of you.

Communication

Complaint Inquiry Committee A recent Complaint Inquiry Committee file provides an opportunity to talk about communication between members and any further follow up that may be required. When a land surveyor contacts another land surveyor regarding possible shortcomings or errors within a given survey, the land surveyor contacted has a professional responsibility to provide a response addressing all of the concerns noted in a timely manner. The member contacted should show the first land surveyor the same respect that he/she would expect. The reason that the concern has been raised may very well dictate a definitive timeline for "in a timely manner". The land surveyor could be doing work adjacent to another member's survey and any delays could be holding up their work from proceeding. Initial communication should be responded to within a week. The first response may be first to acknowledge receipt of the communication with a timeline for when a response on the issue will be forthcoming. A response regarding the actual concern may require a couple of weeks to address, however the delay should not be more than two weeks for the land surveyor to review the concern and determine if an error may exist.

More importantly, if there is an error that exists in the survey, then that needs to be addressed before the error is perpetuated by subsequent surveys. In files that the Complaint Inquiry Committee has dealt with, there were serious errors that needed to be addressed and the land surveyors chose not to respond. Additionally, another area of concern noted by land surveyors is where a member fails to file a posting plan within the 60 day timeline of Section 68 of the Land Title Act. Members are often the first to notice monuments in the ground and no record of these in the land title office. Members should communicate and ensure that these posting plans are filed in a timely manner. Failure of a member to communicate and file the plans in a timely manner is cause for concern and a complaint.

To not respond lacks professionalism and there are at least two complaint files involving discipline where a land surveyor has either not responded to a fellow land surveyor or has not responded in a timely manner, well in excess of what has been noted above.

As a regulatory body established by government, the government, on behalf of the public, expects that the profession will identify errors and have them corrected in a timely manner. Since the 1840's, land surveyors have been building an intricate web of land surveys that form the cadastral fabric of this province. That web must carefully interlock with each new or re-established survey fitting tightly into the appropriate slot. As land surveyors we may be competitors but when it comes to ensuring the maintenance or expansion of the cadaster, we must be partners and discuss potential problems with one another in a non-competitive manner.

If a land surveyor does not respond to the initial communication and fails to respond to any follow up communication then clearly there is a requirement to report this matter to the Secretary. First, the land surveyor requesting a response most likely has a job that is being held up waiting for a concern to be addressed. Secondly the public interest may be at risk as there could very well be an incorrect survey lying at the root of the problem. Regardless, the reason for the concern needs to be resolved.

All land surveyors have a professional responsibility to manage the infrastructure of our cadastre in a way that ensures public trust. Land surveyors must make the time to address issues or concerns raised in a timely manner to ensure that the work done in the field and the office leaves a legacy that the public can rely on. Land surveyors must be prepared to step up to the plate and identify concerns to the secretary that another land surveyor has not addressed in an appropriate time.

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The Continuing Professional Development Committee As we approach 2016 and the advent of the new mandatory Continuing Professional Development Program (CPDP), the CPD Committee is happy to announce that planning is in the works for several Getting It Right BC (GIRBC) sessions. GIRBC is an excellent way to obtain CPDP credit hours. If you have never attended GIRBC, or if it has been a number of years since you have attended, 2016 is a great time to enroll. Watch for an announcement about GIRBC dates and venue locations early in the New Year. GIRBC has been developed as an interactive workshop which looks at many aspects of the surveying profession and focuses on how to create high quality surveying products through teamwork. Being a member of a land surveying team is not about always knowing the right answer, instead it is about working collaboratively to take each project through a series of steps that include the necessary checks and balances to ensure the final product is something the entire team can take pride in. Between 2009 and 2014 there have been 13 workshops in varying locations throughout the province. With over 300 participants in that time, a lot of learning has occurred and a lot of knowledge has been shared. Here are a few comments from some of the participants: The "Getting it Right" seminar was of great value to me in my practice. It provided a comprehensive overview of all the elements of quality assurance that need to be part of my practice in order to meet professional standards. There was lots of new learning for me and the opportunity to engage and discuss a wide variety of practice issues with my peers â&#x20AC;Ś highly recommended. I was fortunate to attend one of the very first Getting it Right in BC Seminars. The materials covered were relevant to any land surveyor, new to the profession or someone with 30 years or more on the practice list. In fact they reminded me of why I became a land surveyor. GIRBC was an immediate help and motivator to improve my work singularly as a BCLS and as a team member of my office. The original focus of GIRBC, up to this time, has been on delivering the fundamentals of being a land surveyor and being part of a land surveying team ("The Fundamentals" workshop). The Fundamentals workshop is always evolving as we receive feedback from participants and the workshop material is regularly updated. The CPDC believes that it is of great benefit to survey team members to re-attend the workshop every five years or less. The 2016 GIRBC 36

Fundamentals workshops will include refreshed materials and a new look. We are very excited to announce that starting in the spring of 2016 we will be adding additional one day workshops to the GIRBC program. The first workshop in the series is called Getting The Most out of ParcelMap BC. The LTSA will be providing some basic training in the coming months to demonstrate techniques for creating and uploading datasets for new surveys. As the functionality becomes available the LTSA will also provide some training on how to download some of the data that will be available to land surveyors as well as the search capabilities of ParcelMap BC. The GIRBC workshop will go beyond these basics and focus on exploring the full functionality of this game changing surveying utility. Getting The Most out of ParcelMap BC will briefly explore the historic flow of information through a typical land surveyor's office, then delve into the opportunities that georeferencing and ParcelMap BC provide. The goal of this workshop is to dig into numerous possibilities that ParcelMap BC brings to the surveying community and to showcase tangible procedures from which every survey operation can benefit. Each of the new workshops being planned will build on the knowledge gained from The Fundamentals workshop. Consequently it is important that all participants in the additional series have taken The Fundamentals workshop within the past five years. In order to be eligible to participate in the spring series of Getting The Most out of ParcelMap BC, participants must have participated in the 2011 Fundamentals workshop or a more recent GIRBC Fundamentals workshop. All GIRBC participants have been provided with a Certificate of Completion, so check the date on your Certificate or contact the ABCLS office for confirmation. For those that have not taken The Fundamentals GIRBC workshop within the last five years, we will also be offering that two day workshop in two locations this spring. The Fundamentals workshop provides you with 14 CPD (Category A) credit hours and Getting The Most out of ParcelMap BC will provide you with seven CPD (Category A) credit hours. The Continuing Professional Development Committee is excited about this new direction for GIRBC and we hope that all BCLS's, office staff, and field staff will consider attending GIRBC -The Fundamentals workshop or the Getting The Most out of ParcelMap BC workshop in 2016.

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Getting it Right BC is a professional development seminar for the land surveying community. Focusing on the life cycle of a survey project, participants share ideas and discuss ways to ensure quality in each step of the process. New, practical tools are introduced to increase efficiencies and assist participants in remaining current. With interactive, team-based exercises, this seminar provides a fun opportunity for your team to learn together (and from each other!).

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Association of BC Land Surveyors 111th Annual General Meeting and Continuing Professional Development Days March 2 to 4, 2016 - Kimberley On behalf of President Bronwyn Denton, we would like to invite you to a�end the ABCLS Con�nuing Professional Development Days (March 2 and 3) and the 111th AGM (March 3 and 4) at the Kimberley Conference Centre in Kimberley, also known as the Bavarian City of the Rockies. This is an excellent opportunity to a�end valuable CPD sessions, par�cipate in decision making at the annual general mee�ng, and stay apprised of the current items impac�ng the Associa�on. Join us at the Awards Dinner as we welcome the new professionals to our Associa�on and as we celebrate the accomplishments of our honored colleagues.

Kimberley Conference Centre — AccommodaƟons The accommoda�on website is www.meetkimberley.ca/concierge/abcls-2016. Room rates, along with details for the various hotel/resorts are available at this website. In order to receive the listed rates, all accommoda�on bookings must be done online at the links provided on the accommoda�on website or through the Kimberley Conference Centre at 250-427-6802 and are subject to availability. “Book early” to avoid disappointment. Please note the room block release dates: • Trickle Creek Lodge (room block released on January 16th) • Polaris Lodge (room block released on January 16th) • Mountain Spirit Resort (room block released on January 30th) • Rocky Condos (room block released on January 30th) • Purcell Condos (room block released on January 30th) • Kimberley Ridge (room block released on January 30th) • Econo Lodge - Wednesday & Thursday only (room block released on January 30th) In addi�on to the business and educa�on component of the AGM, work is underway on an exci�ng social and partner event schedule. As a small preview, Thursday night will include a Bavarian themed costumed dinner party with a German buﬀet and locally cra�ed beer. Friday night will be the Awards Dinner & Dance, with a "Black and White" theme, amazing food and a live band! More details to follow in the coming weeks!

ConƟnuing Professional Development Topics The CPD Commi�ee is hard at work planning seminars/presenta�ons which will include the keynote address delivered by Terry Small, also known as “The Brain Guy”. Other seminar topics include Development Approvals, Social Media, Public Roads - Highways & Forest Service Roads in BC, Building Blocks for an Eﬀec�ve Health & Safety Management System: From Manual to Culture, Geode�c Posi�oning Refresher, and a jointly presented seminar by PAD, CGB Group Insurance and ENCON.

RegistraƟon informaƟon will be forwarded to members towards the end of 2015 and will also be posted on our website hƩp://www.abcls.ca/

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Continuing Professional Development Days March 2 and 3, 2016 Kimberley Conference Centre

Description of Seminars These seminars are designed for the benefit of all ABCLS members, including LST’s, LSA’s, Survey Students, Partners/Spouses.

Your Brain at Work! – Wednesday – 8:00am to 9:00am Your brain is involved in everything you do! 90% of what we know about the brain has been learned in the last 2 years and yet most people never think much about their brains. You simply trust your brain to do its job. Your brain is the supercomputer that runs your life. This session has 2 bottom lines: when your brain works right, you work right and everyone needs a little help. When you look after your brain, the results are amazing. This session will give you the tools to boost your brain power, Improve your thinking, and improve your health. Presenter: Terry Small, B.Ed., M.A., is a master teacher and Canada's leading learning skills specialist. Terry has presented on the brain for over 33 years. His knowledge, warmth, humour and dynamic presentation style have made him a much sought-after speaker at workshops and conferences. His presentations are engaging, humorous, practical, and all based on the latest brain science. Terry believes, "Anyone can learn how to learn easier, better, faster, and that learning to learn is the most important skill a person can acquire." Terry Small's Philosophy is simple: "Success is a skill anyone can learn.

Social Media: Requirement or Extravagance – Wednesday – 9:00am to 12:00pm Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, blogs, forums, YouTube, Facebook, Pinterest. Correctly managed, social media outlets offer the least expensive, most effective method for crafting and marketing a business presence, sharing ideas and disseminating information, and maintaining close connection to a growing customer base. Poorly deployed and ill-targeted, they waste time and money, and draw attention from proven channels and procedures. Join Dawn Groves in this fascinating ½ day session as she shares social media’s most effective deployment. Included in the presentation will be documentation to support the material as well as technical and online references. Presenter: Dawn Groves is an author and senior consultant with Einblau & Associates focusing on workflow effectiveness, team strategy & communications, and digital efficiency. She is also a qualified Strength Deployment Inventory facilitator. A sought-after presenter and teacher, Dawn began her career as a software engineer working on satellite-to-submarine communications. Later, she published several books on lifestyle management and computer topics. After moving to Bellingham, WA, she began teaching and consulting for government and educational institutions. Dawn maintains an active online presence while developing content and doing research. Her work has been quoted in print publications such as Harvard Business Review, Professional Excellence, Success Magazine, The Scrivener, Bottom Line Personal, etc.

Development Approvals – Wednesday – 9:00am to 12:00pm This seminar will cover how Land Surveyors can effectively act as the agent for their clients in the rural Development Approval Process. Often the Land Surveyor is the first professional person on the land and through their training has the experience and knowledge necessary to be the agent for the owner for most development applications. Acting as the liaison between the Government Approving Authorities and the owners benefits both sides while allowing you to increase your financial returns. Concentrating on the subdivision application process with the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure the tools learned there will also allow you to act as an agent for applications to smaller Municipalities. This seminar will also cover applications Surveyors can be involved in to Local Governments and the Agricultural Land Commission.

Presenter: Nigel Hemingway, BCLS

Risk Management – Quality Assurance for the Professional Land Surveyor – Wednesday – 1:00pm to 3:00pm In a joint presentation by CG&B, ENCON and the Practice Advisory Department, the fundamentals of risk management will be explored. Many examples of errors and omissions from insurance claims and case law will be explored with the aim of improving quality assurance processes to avoid costly mistakes. The audience will participate in interactive exercises based on common practice issues faced by today’s professional land surveyors.

Presenter: Gord Gamble, BCLS, CLS Presenter: Peter Goodier, BCLS

The Professional Liability Insurance Committee of Professional Surveyors Canada (PSC) has selected the CG&B Group, part of Arthur J. Gallagher Canada, as the broker for the professional liability insurance program for PSC. Presenter: Mark Sampson, BBA, FCIP, has been in the insurance industry for 19 years and is the Senior Vice President for The CG&B Group / Arthur J. Gallagher. He is the new insurance broker for the PSC Professional Liability Insurance Program: “Surveyors Plan”. Presenter: Stephen Black, B.Sc. joined ENCON Group Inc. in 2000 as a claims analyst. ENCON has been a trusted name in professional liability and construction insurance, as well as group and retiree benefits for many years. As a leading managing general agent in Canada, they offer insurance programs for individuals, professionals, organizations and businesses. ENCON Group Inc. has been the general agent for the Professional Surveyors Canada professional liability insurance program since 1988.

Building Blocks for an Effective Health & Safety Management System: From Manual to Culture – Wednesday – 3:30pm to 5:00pm Topics in this seminar will include the basics of an effective safety manual including content and use, promoting participation and measuring performance, adoption of best practices, and managing safety from the top-down.

Presenter: Aamir Ahmad, BSc. Eng. is a graduate from Queen’s University with a chemical engineering degree. He has worked in the forestry, seismic and surveying industries and has been in the safety world the past five years. He currently is a Corporate HSE Advisor, focusing on corporate policy development, managing and evaluating the corporate safety systems.

Geodetic Positioning Refresher – Wednesday – 3:30pm to 5:00pm This presentation includes the following topics: understand different horizontal/vertical datums and epochs used in provincial and federal control networks; choosing the correct datum and epoch for the project; understand the differences of UTM Map coordinates, map vs ground distances, grid bearings vs geodetic and astronomic azimuths; quality control measures when mixing conventional, static, RTK and PPP data in projects; challenges on large scale projects over different UTM zones and scale factors. Presenter: Joan Yau received her PhD in ‘Relative Geodetic Positioning Using GPS Interferometry’ from University of Nottingham, UK, in 1986. She has 30 years’ experience in Geodetic Positioning, specializing in Space Geodesy and Geometrical Geodesy, including 12 years as a GNSS research engineer and technical representative, and 13 years as a Geomatics instructor at the diploma and degree level. Joan has worked with various organizations/institutions in Americas, Europe and Asia. Currently she is the Geodetic and GNSS Specialist at McElhanney Consulting Services Ltd. in Vancouver.

Public Roads, Highways and Forest Service Roads in British Columbia – Thursday – 8:30am to 12:00pm Roads, Highways and Trails have long presented challenges to land surveyors, administrators of Crown land and the general public. What creates a road or a highway? When is a trail public? How wide is a road, a highway, a wagon road, a trail? What documents are available to assist when researching these matters? This seminar will present a compendium of material received from various sources both in and out of government which will also become a chapter for the Association’s Professional Reference Manual.

Presenter: Jeff Beddoes, BCLS, CLS, is the Senior Deputy Surveyor General in the Surveyor General Division of the Land Title and Survey Authority of BC. He will be assisted by co-presenters.

2016 AGM CPD SCHEDULE These seminars are designed for the benefit of all ABCLS members, including LSTs, LSAs, Survey Students and Partners/Spouses Wednesday - March 2, 2016 8:00am - 9:00am Seminar 1 - Keynote Address YOUR BRAIN AT WORK! Speaker: "The Brain Guy" AKA Terry Small

9:00am - 10:00am Seminar 2 SOCIAL MEDIA: REQUIREMENT OR EXTRAVAGANCE Speaker: Dawn Grove Einblau & Associates

9:00am - 10:00am Seminar 3 DEVELOPMENT APPROVALS Speaker: Nigel Hemingway, BCLS

Thursday - March 3, 2016

8:30am - 10:00am Seminar 7 PUBLIC ROADS, HIGHWAYS AND FOREST SERVICE ROADS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA Speaker: Jeff Beddoes, BLCS, CLS

10:00am - 10:30am - Coffee Break 10:30am - 12:00pm Seminar 2 (con't)

10:00am - 10:30am - Coffee Break 10:30am - 12:00pm Seminar 7 (con't)

10:30am - 12:00pm Seminar 3 (con't)

12:00pm - 1:00pm - Lunch

1:00pm - 3:00pm Seminar 4 RISK MANAGEMENT - QUALITY ASSURANCE FOR THE PROFESSIONAL LAND SURVEYOR Speakers: Gord Gamble, BCLS, CLS, Peter Goodier, BCLS, Mark Sampson, FCIP, CIP, BBA & Stephen Black, ENCON

1:00pm - 2:30pm AGM Business Session

3:00pm - 3:30pm - Coffee Break

2:30pm - 3:00pm - Coffee Break

3:30pm - 5:00pm Seminar 5 BUILDING BLOCKS FOR AN EFFECTIVE HEALTH & SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM: FROM MANUAL TO CULTURE Speaker: Aamir Ahmad, Corporate HSE Advisor - WSP in Canada

3:30pm - 5:00pm Seminar 6 GEODETIC POSITIONING REFRESHER Speaker: Joan Yau McElhanney Consulting Services Ltd.

Icebreaker (7:00pm start)

3:00pm - 4:30pm AGM Business Session (con't)

Theme Dinner (6:30pm start)

Biographical Corner The following write-up is a continuation of the Historical and Biographical Committee's biographical sketches of our more senior members. Wayne (Griff) Griffith, BCLS #606, CLS, interviewed Paul Penner on a number of occasions and prepared the following. While Griff thought he knew Paul fairly well, he soon realized that there was a lot he didn't know. Thanks to Griff's diligence, we all learned more about Paul. By Robert Allen, BCLS (Life Member), CLS, CIG (Life Member) Biography of Paul G. Penner, BCLS No.471 By Wayne Griffith, BCLS, CLS (Retired) Continued on Page 45 Ă&#x2DC; 44

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Paul Gerhard Penner was born on September 10th, 1936, at Elmwood, Manitoba to German Russian immigrants Peter Jacob and Katherine Penner. Peter and Katherine immigrated to Canada in the nineteen twenties. The family settled in Manitoba, but eventually moved to the Fraser Valley where they settled in Chilliwack. Paul had an older brother John Peter Penner and an older sister Annelie Friesen. He also has a twin sister Margaret Helen McQueen. On July 11th, 1964, Paul married Lorraine Rosabelle Moyer, nee Morris at Chilliwack BC. Lorraine was a divorcee who worked for BC Tel as an operator. She had two boys and a girl whom Paul legally adopted. The two boys were Christopher Michael and Jeffrey David Penner. The girl was Leslie Lorraine Dueck. Paul and Lorraine had one biological daughter Karen Rae Demers who was born on January 20th, 1965. Paul's wife Lorraine developed chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and predeceased Paul and the children on March 1st, 2007. Paul's two daughters blessed him with five grandchildren. Leslie Dueck had a daughter, Bonnie Rachel Dueck had two sons, Samuel and Jacob Dueck. Karen Demers had one son, Mitchell Demers had an adopted son, Thomas Demers. Paul's two adopted sons Christopher and Jeffrey were both divorced and they had no children. Paul received an excellent education that prepared him well for the academic challenges he would face in becoming a land surveyor through the article process. He began his elementary education at the Victoria Albert Public School in Winnipeg, Manitoba. In the spring of 1945 the family moved to Chilliwack where Paul entered grade three. Paul graduated from Chilliwack Senior High School in 1954 and completed grade 13 or senior matriculation in 1955 before going on to UBC. Paul spent four years at UBC before he packed up his academic endeavours. In 1955-1956 Paul took his first year of civil engineering. Unfortunately he failed first year and

decided to give his studies a rest. Paul took the following year off to work, but returned to UBC for the 1957-1958 term when he successfully completed first year civil engineering. Paul worked the summer and returned to UBC that fall for his second year of engineering. He fell a little short with his studies and decided to give up on engineering altogether. Paul decided to try something a little easier and he studied political science in the 19591960 term. Paul soon realized that political science wasn't the answer and he toyed with the idea of studying economics the following term. In the end Paul opted to enter the work force and continue his career in surveying. When Paul finished at UBC he was already an accomplished engineering surveyor because of his summer employment with the BC Forest Service and Public Works Canada. Paul got his first taste of surveying in the summer of 1956 when he worked as a level man for the BC Forest Service on the forest development road survey from Slesse Creek to Chilliwack Lake. That fall Paul decided not to return to UBC and he went to work in Victoria with the Forest Services. He worked in the office doing survey note reductions and various calculations relating to forestry road design. In the spring of 1957 Paul was sent up to the Blue River area to survey the Finn Creek development road. During the 1958 survey season Paul was again employed by the BC Forest Services and he was sent up to the Canal Flats area to work on the survey of the White River forestry development road. By the time Paul returned to UBC for the 1958-1959 term, he had developed into quite a responsible engineering surveyor. The following spring he took a job with Public Works Canada (Yukon) working on the location survey of the Dempster Highway. The professional engineer that hired Paul to work for the BC Forest Services was the same engineer that hired Paul to work on the Dempster Highway location survey. He recognized Paul's potential as a surveyor

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over four survey seasons and he hired Paul as his second in command on this major location survey. That fall Paul returned to UBC to study political science, but he returned to the Yukon in the spring of 1960 and continued to work on the Dempster Highway location survey. When Paul decided not to return to UBC, he finished the survey season in the Yukon before returning home to Chilliwack in the late fall. Paul would have returned to the Dempster location survey the following spring, but Public Works Canada had made a small employment error. Paul's old boss had left Public Works that winter and the new management had hired someone else by the name of Paul Penner. By the time the error was realized, Paul had moved on to other employment. In the early part of 1961 Paul took a job working for a forester doing timber cruising on Vancouver Island until he was able to secure more appropriate employment with The Department of Highways. Paul went to work in the material testing branch working on the Tsawwassen causeway. The branch was responsible for materials testing on the road bed to the new ferry terminal. The materials testing branch had failed portions of the causeway prior to the grand opening by then Highways Minister Phil Gaglardi. After Gaglardi had his grand opening sections of the road were torn up and resurfaced and the public was none the wiser. When the causeway project was complete Paul secured a job in the spring of 1962 with the BC Power Commission in the survey department. His first job was in the Nakusp area running levels to establish flood line elevations for the proposed High and Low Arrow Dams. When this project was completed he was sent to Dawson Creek to work on the survey of a power line from Dawson Creek to Hudson Hope via Chetwynd. While on this project Paul was approached by Alex Daniluck, BCLS and offered a job in legal surveying. Alex must have been pretty persuasive because Paul quit working for the BC Power Commission and located to Chetwynd in the fall of 1963 to begin a career in legal surveying. In 1964 Alex Daniluck had a serious heart attack and Paul was left to clean up the firms outstanding survey projects. This was quite an undertaking for someone just introduced to legal survey work. At this time Paul had some doubts about staying in legal surveying, but he and Alex Daniluck finally reached an arrangement that resulted in Paul becoming his articled student in 1965.

moved the family to Chetwynd. Paul wrote and passed his preliminary exams in the spring of 1965 and then commenced a three year article period. In 1966 Alex Daniluck closed his practice in Chetwynd and moved to Prince George to join the firm of McWilliam, Whyte, Goble and Associates. Paul also moved with his family as Alex's articled student. Paul attempted his final exams in 1968 and 1969. In the spring of 1970 Paul sat his final exams for the last time after taking four months off to study. This time he was successful and his extra effort paid off. Paul had highest average of all the candidates writing that year and was sworn in by Don Duffy as BCLS No. 471 Once Paul was commissioned as a land surveyor, he was made a partner in McWilliam, Whyte, Goble and Associates. Paul remained in Prince George until 1971 when he and Dick Goble established the Smithers branch office. Paul remained with the Smithers branch office until March of 1980. Citing irreconcilable differences and after giving six months notice Paul accepted a buyout from the firm. He returned to Chilliwack that spring to think about retirement and plan his next career move. Paul decided he wanted to practice in the Fraser Valley area and he bought a house in Sardis for a beginning. The family settled in after the kids had completed their school year in Smithers. That summer Gordon Thomson, BCLS offered Paul a job with Tiro Enterprises. Tiro Enterprise provided land surveying and engineering services in the Langley area. Paul entered into three six-month contracts with Tiro Enterprises. His duties were to oversee the field crews and ensure survey standards were maintained. Midway through the third contract Paul decided it was time to move on to other things. On January 1st, 1982 Paul left Tiro Enterprise and opened up a home office in Sardis while Lorraine worked at Canadian Forces Base Chilliwack in the communication department. Once business started to improve in 1983, Paul moved into an Edenbank office at 7105 Vedder Road. He then relocated to the Sardis Plaza at 7300 Vedder Road. The last office he would occupy was in a renovated house at 7432 Vedder Road. The office was in this location when Paul sold the business to George Baerg, BCLS in the fall of 1998 and retired from land surveying for good. Once Paul had retired, he and Lorraine planned a big trip to Mexico in the early part of 1999. In March of that year Paul underwent open-heart surgery and this put an end to the travel plans for a while. Paul recovered fully from his surgery and things went well until his wife Lorraine passed

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away in 2007. Today Paul lives alone in the family home on Roy Avenue with the support of his children, grandchildren and many friends. Paul was active in sports and, while he was living in Prince George, he helped out in Little League as an umpire. He enjoyed the challenge of taking the most abused position in baseball and doing it well. Paul liked to curl and he joined both the Smithers and Chilliwack curling clubs. He had a summer cottage at Cultus Lake to accommodate his interest in sailing. Paul was an avid sailor and often competed in the Geary 18 sailing class. He participated in regattas in Canada and the U.S. Paul has been participating in Tai Chi since 1992 and his group meets three times a week for exercise. He has a need to stay flexible as there is a 1987 Harley Davidson motorcycle parked in his garage that he rides regularly. Next year Paul will be turning 80 and he will be renewing his motorcycle license while the rest of us fret about renewing our driver's license. When Paul lived in Smithers, he was a member of the local Lions Club for eight years. He served as a club president for one year. When Paul moved to Chilliwack in 1980, he served in the Lions Club for a year before he joined the Chilliwack Rotary Club. The Rotary Club was more suited to his business interests. Paul was also a member of the Toastmasters Club in Chilliwack for several years where he honed his public speaking skills

Paul Penner on his Harley When Paul practised as a land surveyor he was regarded as an evidence specialist since he had spent so much time doing crown grant and re-tracement surveys in northern BC. During the early part of his survey career he worked out of town mostly and was no stranger when it came to roughing it in remote areas of the province. The scope of work undertaken by Paul was about as varied as you can Continued on Page 48 Ă&#x2DC;

Paul had an interest in local politics. He served on the Cultus Lake Park Board from 1984 to 1993 and was the board chairman from 1992-1993. Paul served as the vice chairman for several years. The Cultus Lake Parks Board acted on behalf of the City of Chilliwack in providing local governance for the lake area. The board met twice a month plus committee meetings so Paul was kept busy during his term of service Paul joined the Canadian Institute of Surveying and was a long time member of the Association of British Columbia Land Surveyors. He was an active participant in discussions at both annual and regional meetings. Paul was well respected by his peers and nominated for the board several times, but never elected. He volunteered for ABCLS committee work and served as chairman of the Lower Mainland Group for a few years. Paul always found time for public service through service clubs and involvement in local government. Through his activities he set a good example for other land surveyors to follow.

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get over a 42 year career and the major projects undertaken too numerous to mention. Paul never had an article student during this period, but he mentored many along the way. Paul had considerable experience surveying Canada lands but never became a Canada lands Surveyor. This was in an era when a BCLS could be issued instructions to survey on Canada lands. Paul once applied for a position in the Regional Surveyors office in Vancouver and was successful in his application. After much consideration

Paul declined the position and opted for the uncertainty and competitiveness offered in the private sector. From then on he remained in private practice at his Chilliwack office until retirement. Since Paul's retirement, he has had some minor health problems, but nothing so serious that he can't make his three Tai Chi exercise classes a week or to ride his Harley. He recently returned from a trip to Las Vegas then went on a road trip to Lillooet on the bike. Old age doesn't seem to be slowing him down. Hopefully we will see that mischievous smile at an OIP luncheon sometime in the near future.

Richard Chapman, BCLS #377

October 24th, 2014 By Steve Buzikievich, BCLS Richard Chapman BCLS #377 was born October 23, 1927 in Wellingborough, England (English Midlands). He was the eldest of five boys. He passed away in Penticton, BC on June 7th, 2015. He attended Wellingborough preparatory school and, in 1943, he left school at the age of 15½ with university scholarship offers to the Universities of Oxford & Cambridge. He chose not to attend university and worked from 1943 to 1945 in aerodrome construction for a US Flying Fortress Base in East Anglia. In Richard 's own words, in 1945 he enlisted in the army to avoid being drafted to work in the local coal mines. He worked on Bailey bridge construction projects. In 1945 on VE day, he was in a training camp in the Hampstead Heath and had some hi-jinx with a rocket launcher. In 1946 he went to the Edinburgh University for Army Engineers and studied Natural Philosophy under Dr. Birnie. At university he participated in intense physical education proficiency courses under Colonel Campbell and took foil and fencing. In 1947 he went to Aldershot and Sandhurst Military College and was commissioned into the Royal Engineers. He was posted to Egypt to join the British Contingent guarding the Suez Canal. His initial tent camp was at Ismalia. He was then sent to Quassasin west of Ismalia out in the desert to be a guard at a prisoner of war camp. On his arrival everyone was confined to camp for a few months due to a cholera epidemic in a local village. His daily responsibility was to check and repair the camp waterline that was regularly dug up and pieces stolen by the locals. Later in 1947, he sailed from Port Said in the SS Ascania 48

with a load of Mauritian troops bound for Kenya then to Mauritania for demobilization. Travelling in the lower decks it was hard on the troops due to northerly monsoon winds and it took days to get out of the Red Sea. He then spent a little time in Mombasa, Kenya after seeing off the troops back to Mauritius. In 1948, he was sent 100 miles "upcountry" to a proposed new British Army Headquarters under construction at Mackinnon Road. He spent the year there working in administration and supervision. He then returned to the UK for demobilization in 1948.

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Upon his return to the UK and having spent some time in Nairobi he accepted a job with the newly formed Kenya Survey Department in Nairobi. There they organized selfcontained safari groups with transportation and African work crews to establish a series of fundamental benchmarks across southern Kenya. He designed and built collapsible wood formwork for the concrete pouring of bases and pillars for control points. They worked eastward from Nairobi to Mombasa, then northward to Lamu, back south to Voi, thence westward to Soroti, Uganda. They then returned to Nairobi. In 1949, he enrolled in the new survey school at Thika, organized by the Kenya Survey Department. There he first met Philip Motchman, BCLS #438 at a trig beacon he had just finished constructing. The survey school was run by experienced land surveyors from Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Kenya led by a South African friend of Philip Motchman. On completion of survey school he proceeded with geodetic leveling projects in the field from Nairobi eastward as far as Lamu with the rest of the newly trained students. In 1950, he transferred to a new joint project, an Africa wide study of the shape of the earth involving the British Ordinance Survey under Major Bere, the US Coast and Geodetic Survey under Don Nelson and Frank Lawshie and the Geodetic Survey of Kenya under Stamers Smith. This work involved being on safari and locating positions for and establishing and building hilltop triangulation beacons across southern Kenya and northern Tanganyika to Lake Victoria. Being on safari meant being in the middle of nowhere, totally self contained, living off the land, acquiring local produce, shooting game and birds as required and maize meals for the crews. In 1951, the work of the previous year, led into being back on safari working with Don Nelson and Frank Lawshie of the US Coast and Geodetic Survey to undertake triangulation readings. This work involved considerable daily travel back and forth between neighboring beacons, to set, reset, realign or remove target lights on the next set of beacons to which the following nights observations would be directed to. Weather conditions were a big factor since rain and cloud cover could easily disrupt planned observations. Depending on land conditions they made access trails to the beacon locations … unreliable beacon light batteries often resulted in unavoidable delays in the planned observation schedules.

In 1953, Richard immigrated to Canada and took up work with Jack Hill, ALS doing well-site layouts in the Pembina oilfields of Alberta. In 1956 he moved to Vancouver and worked for McElhanney and Associates Land Surveyors. In Vancouver he met the love of his life Mary Kathleen (nee Skehan), a registered nurse. He received his BCLS commission #377 in 1958 (Section 44). Richard and Kathie were married in 1958 and they moved to Kamloops. His work with McElhanney and Associates took him all over the province, working mostly on power line and gas line right of way projects. In 1958 he began managing the McElhanney office in Penticton. In 1960 Richard and Kathie settled in Penticton and when the large right of way projects were completed. McElhanney chose to close the Penticton office and Richard chose to stay in Penticton and he opened his own land survey business, Chapman and Associates in Penticton. When engaged as a BCLS for the development of an area known as Sage Mesa he fell in love with the view and purchased a lot to build his family home. Richard and Kathie raised three daughters, Lesley, Susan, Heather and one son, John. He was a long term member of the Penticton Downtown Rotary Club, supporter Continued on Page 50 Ø

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of the Okanagan Symphony, Penticton Community Concerts and Penticton Art Gallery. He also was a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (England). Richard was an entrepreneur. He built an apartment building and started Okanagan Testing Services for material strength testing. He subdivided a number of properties he owned over the years, usually after he logged them. He staked and surveyed mineral claims in his spare time. In 1972 he fulfilled a dream of taming a piece of rattle snake infested scrubland, hillside and cactus and turning it into the Pine Hills Golf Course above his home in Sage Mesa which became the first of two golf courses he developed. In Penticton, Richard operated a general professional land survey business until his retirement in 2013. Through

Richard Chapman on the chain his land surveying career he had partnered with Philip Motchman BCLS #438. He shared an office building with one of his best friends Allan Colby, P.Eng.

Christopher Charles Everett, CLS, SLS, ALS, BCLS By Robert Allen, BCLS (Life Member), CLS, CIG (Life Member) Along with some help from his family and friends.

Chris was born in London, England, on March 29th, 1936 and in 1952 he graduated from Leyton County High School. He then went on to Harrogate Apprentice College/ Army Apprentice School for three years where he studied topographical surveys, graduating in 1955. He furthered his education by attending the Royal School of Military Surveying taking courses in geodesy and photogrammetry and completing those courses 1958. Whilst at the Royal School (as a Senior NCO), he taught all aspects of field surveying on the "Long Survey Course" which was designed to educate RE Survey Officers and Foreign Dignitaries to such a high level that they would be in a position to head up Survey Operations in their own countries with a high degree of success. Only the best were assigned to teach these courses and that speaks for itself.

of Oman (now the United Arab Emirates) and in the barren and inhospitable Empty Quarter (Rub al' Kali) of Saudi Arabia. In 1965, he moved to Canada and worked three years with the Saskatchewan Department of Natural Resources, all the time studying land surveying methods in western Canada. In 1967, he resigned from the British Army with the rank of Staff Sergeant. Including college, he spent 13 years in the British Army in Britain, the Middle East, and Canada.

Chris spent some time in the Middle East and while stationed in the Aden Protectorate (now part of Republic of Yemen) with the British Army, he did extensive amounts of field work in the Trucial States 50

After completing his studies and serving the appropriate period of articles, Chris was commissioned as Dominion Land Surveyor (now Canada Lands Surveyor) #907 on April 3rd, 1968. On May 13th, 1969, he was commissioned as Saskatchewan Land Surveyor #201 after articling to Abraham Bereskin, SLS, DLS, PEng. On July 22nd, 1970 he went on further to

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become Alberta Land Surveyor #347. Chris also made the time to attend the University of Regina and in May 1978 was the outstanding recipient of a Certificate of Business Administration. In 1992, Chris moved to British Columbia as a land surveying labour mobility candidate and was commissioned as BCLS #731 on November 29th, 1993. There aren't many Land Surveyors who hold three or more provincial land surveying commissions, but Chris was one of them being a Saskatchewan Land Surveyor, an Alberta Land Surveyor, and a British Columbia Land Surveyor, as well as being a Canada Lands Surveyor. Chris served on the Saskatchewan Land Surveyors Association Board of Examiners for ten years and he served as that Association's president in 1979. He retired as a Saskatchewan Land Surveyor on January 15th, 1993. He was on the active list of Alberta Land Surveyors from July 22nd, 1970 to March 26th, 1997 when he went on their retired list. He did serve on the Alberta Land Surveyors Association Professional Development Committee for two terms 2009/2010 and 2010/2011. Chris was also their Director of Practice Review from February 1st, 2009 to April 30th, 2011 and played an integral part in developing their Continuing Competency Review Program.

As a direct result of marketing activities to The Saskatchewan Power Corporation, the Brada to Lloydminster, the Brada to Meadow Lake, and the Shand to Peebles transmission lines were constructed utilizing photogrammetry, global positioning and digital analysis techniques. This resulted in contracts valued in excess of one million dollars. Marketing to the Federal Government consisted mainly of responding to RFPs. Chris was responsible for the preparation of the proposals and many contracts were awarded to Geodata-Prairie as a result of h i s innovative approaches and sound technical planning. Over the years Chris had accumulated a tremendous amount of technical experience and as an active cadastral and surveyor i n Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, and on Canada Lands, he personally surveyed and registered many plans under the various land title systems, designed and laid out subdivisions and certified hundreds of other plans. His particular contribution to the land surveying profession, in Saskatchewan, has been the work he did on the preparation of cadastral base mapping, specifically, developing photogrammetric solutions to the coordination of the primary section corner network. Continued on Page 52 Ă&#x2DC;

Chris' professional career spanned seven decades and as well as working for the Saskatchewan Department of Natural Resources as previously noted, he was the survey manager for Torchinsky Consulting Engineers and later became a founding partner in Everett & Turnbull Control Surveys. He went on to become the project manager for Prairie Surveys Ltd. and later the president and chief executive officer for Geodata-Prairie Systems Ltd. In this latter position, he was responsible for the financial management, budgeting, and marketing policies of the group which at times employed over one hundred professionals and support staff. During his term at Geodata-Prairie, a senior staff of seven department h eads, accountants and research and development scientists all reported directly to him. As the first point of contact for Geodata-Prairie, C h r i s developed clients for surveying mapping and land management services in both the private and public sectors throughout the Prairie region. His efforts generated volumes of work in excess of two million dollars annually and in addition to the Saskatchewan Government, its clients included Trans Canada Pipelines, Uranerz Exploration and a myriad of smaller companies and individuals.

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He was also the project coordinator for the topological structuring and conversions of 1:50,000 and 1:250,000 scale maps in the National Topographic Mapping Series from hard copy to digital formats using ARC/INFO for the Central Surveys and Mapping Agency of Saskatchewan. He was the senior partner for the development, design, and implementation of a "Corridor Information Base" involving GPS surveys, cadastral surveys, aerial photography, photogrammetric strip mapping and Image analysis for two major powerlines in Saskatchewan. Chris was the project manager and field party-chief for extensive first order leveling projects from Fort Norman to Fort Franklin and from Coppermine to Great Bear Lake. These surveys involved large field crews with helicopter and fixed wing support. Chris was the aerial photographer and pilot for three photo seasons between 1987 and 1990 and he was the pilot in command on several hundred photo missions throughout Western Canada and has over 1000 hours of flight time. At one time, he held a commercial multi-engine pilot's licence - no mean feat in itself! When Chris moved to British Columbia in 1992, he did so to mainly semi-retire but he left behind a legacy of his contributions to the surveying profession in Saskatchewan, something that all of us would be very proud of if we were in his shoes. From 1994 to 1996, Chris worked in the oil fields of Texas, along with the hot sun and rattlesnakes, on 3-D seismic oil and gas exploration projects near the towns of Buffalo and Alice. He was also accomplished in astronomical methods of surveying, which involves determining positions on the surface of the earth based on repeated measurements on celestial bodies. He knew very well the positions and apparent movement of the constellations in the night sky. He had taught this and other subjects at the Royal School of Military Surveying.

After his move to British Columbia, he lived in Victoria before settling in Nanaimo to open his own land surveying practice. Chris was active in our Association affairs and attended numerous Group Meetings and Annual Meetings. Even as late as 2011, Chris was writing articles for publication in the Saskatchewan Land Surveyors Association magazine SLSA Corner Post. Chris was well known for his innovating way to implement digital cadastral base maps with high accuracy for many municipalities on the Island including North Saanich, Oak Bay (Upland Area), View Royal and Nanaimo. Chris was also very active outside his work day. He was on Surveying Advisory Boards for both the Saskatchewan Technical Institute and the University of Calgary and he served as a director on the Home Builders Association and served in numerous executive positions in the Rotary Club. In the 1980's Chris ran unsuccessfully as a Liberal candidate in Regina in one of the federal elections. He was also the mid Island Ambassador for 'Shelter Box Canada', an organization that was dear to him. Shelter Box Canada "responds to disasters around the world, providing the emergency shelter and lifesaving supplies families need to survive in the immediate aftermath of a disaster". Chris became accomplished clarinet player and played in the Nanaimo Community Band for two years from 20122014 until he could no longer play due to the stroke he had in 2014. He had also passed his Grade 1 exam at the Royal Conservatory in Vancouver. In his last few years, Chris attended Vancouver Island University working towards a degree in philosophy, but his untimely death saw him one year short of completing his degree. Chris passed away in Nanaimo on August 6th, 2015 and is survived by his wife, Christine Blouin and his two children Mark and Dawn and two grandchildren Laura and Taylor and his sister, Ann Morgan. He was predeceased by his daughter, Hazel, in 2010.

Beyond the Plumbob Face to Face with a Terrorist? By Neil Bennett, BCLS

Barcelona Airport, 4:30 a.m. - me running on auto pilot, Nancy running on nerves. She has a 6:30 a.m. flight to Amsterdam then home. I have a later flight to Amsterdam and a connection to Scotland. We scan our passports in order to aid with the check-in procedure and the computer can't find us. Uh-oh! The lady behind the counter finds our reservations and the tension level decreases - normal travel stuff. 52

The airport is largely deserted. We gravitate towards the security check area, back and forth through the empty lanes directing people towards the one security scanner operating at 4:30 a.m. and there is only one person in front of us. This shouldn't take long and coffee is just ahead.

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Keys and coins into a tray, laptop out of my camera bag for x-ray, no need to take my non-metallic belt or shoes off in this airport. The short line to walk through the scanner stops. The belt taking items through the x-ray machine stops. The one person in front of us, a young man, does not want to remove his jacket. He pulls down the zipper a bit showing a very light t-shirt under the jacket - perhaps he is embarrassed that he is not wearing a shirt. Perhaps he hasn't travelled much and doesn't know he will have to take off his jacket. This is odd. He is asked to take off his watch, which he puts on the x-ray belt right beside my camera bag then he walks through the scanner with no issue. I am summoned through the scanner and in picking up my items I notice the x-ray scan of the young man's hand luggage. There on the screen is something that looks very much like a long barreled hand gun! The young man was being closely questioned by two very serious looking Civil Guard individuals, one of whom was wearing a sidearm. Soon a couple of other Civil Guards arrive and they too are "packing heat". The young man is being questioned in English, seemingly the only common language between all the participants in this group and I can overhear some of the conversation.

This isn't odd any more, this is positively spooky. I check my camera bag to ensure that his watch has not somehow become entangled in one of the straps as I would not unwittingly want to be carrying something I had not intended to carry. The watch isn't there and I decide it is best to leave this scene behind. The Civil Guard men, one of whom hadn't shaved for a few days, looked really serious and the movie "Midnight Express" popped to mind. For sure I wouldn't want to be on the wrong side of those guys. The young man did not look particularly nervous which surprised me. Maybe it wasn't a hand gun but maybe it was. Maybe not knowing the code to the security lock on the hand bag was innocent, but probably it wasn't. Maybe he wasn't a terrorist, but maybe he was. We are very lucky to be able to travel in a relatively safe world. I think any one of us would have to be very unlucky indeed to be the intended or unintended target of a terrorist, but that possibility is out there. So here is a very big "hats off" to the Spanish Civil Guard and security people everywhere for helping to keep the skies safe for us travelers.

Guard: "Can you please remove this lock from your hand luggage?" Young man: "I don't know the code. I just bought it and I don't know the code." Again, more forcefully: "Can you please remove the lock"; again: "I don't know the code."

Fort Steele at Night

By Neil Bennett, BCLS and Nigel Hemingway, BCLS Nigel Hemingway and I were able to have access to Fort Steele for photography after dark during the new moon in September. Both of us have done night photography before, both star trails and light painting, and we had hoped that by being there during the new moon we might be able to capture a picture of the McVittie House under the Milky Way. Unfortunately, there was much cloud and some thunderstorms, so images including the Milky Way did not happen and we undertook night photography with just light painting, which is shooting in the pitch dark and painting the image with flashlight beams.

John Armstrong was very helpful with directing us to the proper person at Fort Steele with whom to talk about gaining access at night. We were granted access and one of the curators, Jessica VanOostwaard attended the site with us on two nights. Not only was she a fountain of information about the site, helped with the flashlight beams and was very supportive of the work of land surveyors with the McVittie House project, but she also identified all the cats onsite for us. Apparently mice are not a problem at Fort Steele as the cats are most assiduous in their moussing duties.

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Night photography with light painting requires a completely different mindset and skill set, than daytime photography. Where daytime photos are fractions of seconds and are commonly shot "hand held", night photography can be a number of seconds, minutes or sometimes hours using a tripod. Sometimes the limiting factor is the battery in the camera. There are many good reference books and websites that give great information on night photography, however both Nigel and I highly recommend Lance Keimig and his site www.thenightskye.com. Nigel and I have taken workshops with Lance in Bodie California and they were informative and fun. Learning the basics, or more, of night photography from a book or website can be done, however for a person who has never tried night photography before a workshop is invaluable especially from someone with the knowledge and experience of Lance. Equipment for night photography has come a long way in the last number of years. Sensors have become much larger and many new cameras can handle quite high ISO numbers, which is especially helpful when trying to capture dim stars in an image. A recent announcement suggests that sensors will be available in the next few years that will be in the billions of pixels as opposed to the 35 million pixels that high end digital SLR's can now capture. Evidently these new sensors will be able to capture individual photons. As much as this will make star photography much easier it will probably mean that lenses will have to be better and, for sure, storage of data will have to be upgraded, as well as processing power in our computers. Night photography, for the purposes of this article, can be broken into two distinct types: firstly the photography of landscape images including buildings and other structures and secondly astrophotography the photography of stars and the Milky Way. The equipment requirements for each of these two types of photography can certainly overlap, but for the person who wants to give night photography a try, moderate equipment will certainly suffice. Those who wish to undertake astrophotography will require high ISO capable camera bodies, fast wide-angle lenses, and other specialized items such as filters with the attendant higher costs involved. Probably the cheapest part of the night photography game is the all important coffee and snacks. Night photography of buildings, like the photography at Fort Steele, is best completed at low ISO values around the native ISO for the camera being used. These values can be in the range of 64 to 200 depending on the camera model and make. Aperture values used are in the mid-range, f8 to f11, to ensure good focus throughout the image. The 54

combination of low ISO, mid-range aperture values and the dark leads to a long exposure time so if you have a camera which will allow you to control the long exposures ("BULB" mode typically) it is likely you would be able to experiment with night photography. Modern digital cameras allow much experimentation at no cost (no film to process) and a quick learning experience (you can see right away what your attempts at lighting have given to the image) so your results can quickly improve. Long exposures at higher ISO's can have more noise (specks in the photo) which can lead to the desire for better cameras, then better lenses and this is like most hobbies I think. Both Nigel and I were using digital SLR's however modern mirrorless cameras give good quality images and have all the capabilities of SLR's. Astrophotography is beyond the scope of this article however we may address this in the future. As noted above, the equipment required for good astrophotography means noiseless or nearly so performance at high ISO's (3200 to 6400) and fast (f1.4 to f2.8) lenses. This equipment can certainly be used in the photography described above, however for the person wanting to give night photography a try, either try some photography with the equipment you already own, borrow from a friend or rent before committing to a large expense. You might really like night photography thus making the expenses justifiable, or you might not, so using equipment you currently own is the best bet. Night photography can be quite challenging when beginning as things done simply in the daylight such as focusing can be quite difficult at night. There are tricks you learn to easily overcome this challenge but it is a very good idea to be very familiar with your camera settings and how to adjust them. If you are out at the New Moon and there is no ambient light (an ideal situation) even walking and not tripping can be problematic. Nigel's first attempt at night photography was at an old abandoned house in open cattle range country. Guess what he stepped into in the dark. One of the cardinal rules of night photography is NO BRIGHT HEADLAMPS and to use weak, red flashlights for assisting with camera settings. This leads to our eyes being accustomed to the dark, as a bright flashlight beam even close to your eyes means your night vision is gone for a few minutes. So how does a person become used to photographing in the dark? Familiarity with your camera and its settings, familiarity of the location and lots of experimentation. It also really helps to do it with someone else. At Fort Steele we often helped light each others images and even Jessica helped with flashlights and shutter releases.

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Fort Steele was great and we were the first people lucky enough to conduct any night photography there. The potential for night photography at this site is almost limitless and we could have spent much more time than the two nights that were available to us because of our schedules. The McVitte house was of particular interest, of course, and we were each able to capture some nice images. Nigel and I have different approaches to night lighting thus our images were somewhat different. Some of my

images are perhaps more clinical and some of Nigel's images are painted with a larger brush you could say. Whereas my brightest flashlight would nicely light certain areas, Nigel had one flashlight that made it seem like a 747 was coming in - especially effective at lighting buildings some distance away. As might be expected, we both like each others styles. We have included images from both of us in this article and hope you enjoy this different look of Fort Steele after dark. Editor's Note: Please be informed that Neil now has a website that illustrates some of the techniques that he has mastered â&#x20AC;Ś neilbennettphoto.smugmug.com.

Fort Steele at Night

Blacksmith'S Home ... by Neil Bennett

General Store and Post Office ... by Neil Bennett

McVittie House ... by Neil Bennett

Blacksmith's Shop ... By Nigel Hemingway

Bunkhouse ... By Nigel Hemingway

City Bakery ... By Nigel Hemingway

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Photos submitted by Robin Kenyon during the Treaty Survey for the Toquaht Nation (at the most westerly reaches of the Empire)

Robin Kenyon BCLS, CLS, driving the boat.

Technician Mike DeGraff on an ever-shrinking set-up.

Recruitment Notice for ABCLS Secretary Position Chuck Salmon is retiring in October 2016 and we have engaged HR Consultant, Lois Looman, to lead the search for his replacement. It was important to the Board to bring in outside expertise to ensure a fair, open and transparent recruitment process, confidentiality for all applicants and access to professional human resource advice, best practices and trends. Chuckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s position encompasses Secretariat duties along with Registrar and Treasurer responsibilities. This position performs various functions as required by the Land Surveyors Act and these have been identified in the job description (posted on our website at www.abcls.ca under employment opportunities). Chuck has given us a long notice period so that we can incorporate an earlier start date to accommodate appropriate training. The Board believes that due to some of the restrictive requirements of the position (i.e. Conflict of Interest, and parttime status), this vacancy may appeal to a limited number of Association members. However for the right passionate individual, this opportunity will afford someone with the prospect of making our Association stronger to ensure its viability long into the future. If you are interested in pursuing this opportunity or finding out more information about the Secretary position, we encourage you to contact Lois directly, before February 15, 2016, at Lois.Looman@telus.net to arrange a time to discuss this position and your interest. Bronwyn Denton, BCLS, President, ABCLS

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SURVEYORS ON BOATS - JULY 2015 (48°53’N 123°24’W) By Ron Johns, BCLS The boats have been winterized and summer is becoming a distant memory. On July 18th/19th Montague Harbour was the home of the "Surveyors on Boats" 3rd annual boating rendezvous (aka SOB’s - boating chapter). Five boats took part this year, three sail and two power. The weather was fantastic and the winds light. Shortly after arrival on Saturday, a challenging scavenger hunt took place, followed by appy's and door prizes aboard Intuwishin. Mark and Bronwyn were the lucky winners of the Grand prize, a pair of boat fenders, kindly donated by All Bay Marine of Sidney. A group BBQ at the marine park provided ample time to socialize. After relaxing on Sunday morning and planning next year’s rendezvous, the boats set off for their home ports.

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FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE BC LAND SURVEYORS FOUNDATION The two primary objectives of the BC Land Surveyors Foundation are to: ď&#x201A;§ create and maintain a library that houses historical and current reference material related to the surveying industry in British Columbia; and ď&#x201A;§ financially assist students who wish to pursue careers in surveying by providing scholarships and bursaries. The Foundation has a number of books for sale - consider purchasing them for members of your staff, local schools, or libraries. They will make a wonderful gift and at the same time, your contributions will help support the Foundation. The following books are available from the ABCLS office: Surveying Central Canada $42.00 (taxes included, shipping extra) Author: Jay Sherwood Surveying Northern British Columbia $30.00 (taxes included, shipping extra) Author: Jay Sherwood Return to Northern British Columbia $42.00 (taxes included, shipping extra) Author: Jay Sherwood Made to Measure $32.00 (taxes included, shipping extra) Author: Katherine Gordon

Furrows in the Sky The Adventures of Gerry Andrews $21.00 (taxes included, shipping extra) Author: Jay Sherwood Surveying Southern British Columbia $42.00 (taxes included, shipping extra) Author: Jay Sherwood Additional information on these books can be found on the Foundation/Books for Sale page of the ABCLS website. The BCLS Foundation Trustees would like to invite all land surveyors to help support these worthy causes through financial contributions. If you are interested and willing to donate, you may contribute by cheque or credit card. You might also like to consider leaving a Legacy Donation through your will to contribute to existing scholarships - or to establish a new scholarship in your name. You can do this by stating in your will that the bequest should be made to: The BC Land Surveyors Foundation, Suite 301-2400 Bevan Avenue, Sidney, BC V8L 1W1 Donations by credit card can be given by calling our Association office: 250-655-7222. All cheques should be made payable to the BC Land Surveyors Foundation and mailed to the Association office. Please provide your name(s) and mailing address so a receipt can be forwarded to you.

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