Spring 2009 Volume 18 Number 1 For a PDF of the entire issue, please Click here. To read the articles individually, please scroll downthrough the Table of Contents below. ______________________________________________ COVER STORY: Working Together for Excellence To see the entire magazine in PDF format, please click on the Cover photo. FEATURES Educating BC Notaries the preSident Educators Lead Our WaySusan Davis Learning is OngoingSusan Davis the SeCretary and eXeCutiVe direCtorVision, Value, and VerveWayne Braid keynoteBC Notaries: In Hot Pursuit of EducationVal Wilson Meet Our MAALS Educators! The Class of 2009Cheryl Vavra The Journey to Success: The Class of 2004Kate Manvell priVate reCipeS “Best Ever” MeatloafChocolate Cake What Does it Take to Become a BC Notary Public? The Scrivener: What’s in a Name? Services a BC Notary Can Provide Wills Drafting for BC Notaries Filippiniana: Vancouver Chapter’s Spring DinnerDoug Parton The Flavour of Life in the Philippines profile of a BC notary: Coquitlam Jim Robinson: Continuing BC Notaries’ Tradition of Trust North to Alaska and the YukonJim Robinson Where are they noW? Ian Macnaughton: Enjoying His Ongoing Passion for Learning A Miracle Brings Us Here This EveningAbrahim Tahsili Hot Off the Press from Joe Quan! BUSINESS TO BUSINESS Spotlight on good WorkS: The Vision of BC CEAS:Pearl McKenzie BC Dispute Resolution Practicum Society Celebrates 10 Great YearsKari Boyle BC land SurVeyorS Update: Labour MobilityChuck Salmon The 2009 Board of the Association of BC Land Surveyors The S.O.B.s: Time Well WastedAlan Comfort Strata laW Hardship under Strata Property ActDaniel Boisvert notarieS around the World The Private Notaries in VietnamSteven Le hiStory Roman Civil Law, Part IBernard W. Hoeter, PhD SeniorS New Canadian Centre for Elder LawLaura Watts LETTERS A Tale of Two CohortsJohn Crawford traVel Travelling through Canada’s Diverse Northwest PassageCharles and Joy Carter hiStory of BC The Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway and Robert DunsmuirBob Reid inVeStment Strategy Strategic InvestingLarry Jacobson intelleCtual property BaSiCS TrademarksTony Wilson taXeS Tax Breaks for Families and Individuals: The 2009 Federal BudgetKathryn Edwards WillS & eStateS Revocation of WillsTrevor Todd Judith Milliken Editor’s Advertise in The Scrivener teChnology Springtime Fun/Work TechAkash Sablok honourS & eVentS PEOPLE Where in the World Has The Scrivener Been?
To read the articles individually, please scroll downthrough the Table of Contents below.
Educating BC Notaries
the preSident Educators Lead Our WaySusan Davis
Learning is OngoingSusan Davis
the SeCretary and eXeCutiVe direCtorVision, Value, and VerveWayne Braid
Meet Our MAALS Educators!
The Class of 2009Cheryl Vavra
The Journey to Success: The Class of 2004Kate Manvell
What Does it Take to Become a BC Notary Public?
The Scrivener: What’s in a Name?
Services a BC Notary Can Provide
Wills Drafting for BC Notaries
Filippiniana: Vancouver Chapter’s Spring DinnerDoug Parton
The Flavour of Life in the Philippines
profile of a BC notary: Coquitlam Jim Robinson: Continuing BC Notaries’ Tradition of Trust
North to Alaska and the YukonJim Robinson
Where are they noW? Ian Macnaughton: Enjoying His Ongoing Passion for Learning
A Miracle Brings Us Here This EveningAbrahim Tahsili
Hot Off the Press from Joe Quan!
BUSINESS TO BUSINESS
Spotlight on good WorkS: The Vision of BC CEAS:Pearl McKenzie
BC Dispute Resolution Practicum Society Celebrates 10 Great YearsKari Boyle
BC land SurVeyorS Update: Labour MobilityChuck Salmon
The 2009 Board of the Association of BC Land Surveyors
The S.O.B.s: Time Well WastedAlan Comfort
Strata laW Hardship under Strata Property ActDaniel Boisvert
notarieS around the World The Private Notaries in VietnamSteven Le
hiStory Roman Civil Law, Part IBernard W. Hoeter, PhD
SeniorS New Canadian Centre for Elder LawLaura Watts
LETTERS
A Tale of Two CohortsJohn Crawford
traVel Travelling through Canada’s Diverse Northwest PassageCharles and Joy Carter
hiStory of BC The Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway and Robert DunsmuirBob Reid
inVeStment Strategy Strategic InvestingLarry Jacobson
intelleCtual property BaSiCS TrademarksTony Wilson
taXeS Tax Breaks for Families and Individuals: The 2009 Federal BudgetKathryn Edwards
WillS & eStateS Revocation of WillsTrevor Todd Judith Milliken
Editor’s
Advertise in The Scrivener
teChnology Springtime Fun/Work TechAkash Sablok
honourS & eVentS PEOPLE
Where in the World Has The Scrivener Been?
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