2013 Annual General Meeting - Bowen Island Conservancy

The Bowen Island Conservancy’s 2013 Annual General Meeting was held at 10:00 am on Saturday, November 23th, 2013, in the Multipurpose Room at Bowen Island Community School (1041 Mt. Gardner Road).

View the slides presented during the formal business meeting, in PDF form.
View the draft AGM minutes, in PDF form.

This year we continued our tradition of a guest presentation after the formal business meeting.

10:00 am: Formal business meeting

The formal portion of the meeting included:

Approval of the AGM Agenda
Approval of Minutes of the 2012 AGM
Report from the Chair
Consideration and adoption of the Financial Statements (required for filing the annual report to the government)
Directors: election of new and returning directors

11:00 am: Coffee break

11:15 am: “Howe Sound: its natural wonders and environmental change”, presented by Bob Turner.

Howe Sound, our glacier-carved fiord, is a mosaic of the extraordinary. This talk pays homage to its island archipelago, its mountains and volcanoes, salmon rivers and estuaries, forests and marine ecosystems. It also looks at environmental recovery since the early 1990’s. The recent return of herring, dolphin, and whales signal new health to Howe Sound’s waters, and we need to celebrate our remarkable backyard.

About Bob Turner

Bob Turner, a scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada, and former Mayor of Bowen Island, has been exploring the Sound and surrounding mountains for 20 years. He was the lead organizer of the 1991 Howe Sound Environmental Science Workshop. He is also the author of Vancouver, City on the Edge, a popular book on the geology of the region, and Sea to Sky GeoTour, a guide to the geology and landscapes along Highway 99 from Vancouver to Whistler.