W H O L I S T E N S T O T H E R I V E R S ?
Third Annual Rivers Canada Forum
Saturday, September 28, 1996
9:00 am - 7:00 pm
First Nations House of Learning
(Longhouse)
University of British Columbia
COSTS
Admission: $15.00 (does not include meals -
limited support available on request)
Students: Admit Free
Lunch: Self-pay
Evening Banquet: $18.00 (includes tip and taxes)
Children half price
ORGANISED BY:
SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF RIVERS AND LAKES IN CANADA RIVERS CANADA
RIVERS CANADA
Box 29, 1450 Johnston Road
White Rock, BC, V4B 5E9
Ph/Fax: 604 - 535-5555
email: riverscanada@eznet.ca
S P E A K E R S
Wendy Holm
P. Ag.: Resource Economist; leading authority on water, agriculture,
CUSFTA and NAFTA; Rivers Canada board member.
Andy Russell
River activist for fifty years; founding member, spokesperson and
Chair, Friends of The Oldman River; author and guide.
Tom Perry
MLA of B.C. Legislature 1989 - 1996; Minister of Advanced Education,
Training & Technology 1991 - 1993; winner - Roderick Haig Brown Award
for his efforts to preserve the Skagit Valley; Rivers Canada board
member.
David Boyd
Lawyer with the Sierra Legal Defence Fund; Director of the Canadian
Parks and Wilderness Society and the Northwest Ecosystem Alliance;
Rivers Canada board member.
Ric Careless
Program Director, B.C. Endangered Spaces Campaign; WWF (Canada);
Executive Director, B.C. Spaces for Nature (formerly Tatshenshini Wild),
Chair, Tatshenshini International; Director, B.C. Wild; Rivers Canada
board member.
Ian Kean
Director of the River League; River Expedition Guide; Rivers Canada
board member.
Maggie Paquet
Director, newsletter editor, Friends of the Stikine Society; Member,
Canadian Mining Caucus (CEN); Canadian Oceans Caucus (CEN), and
Provincial Water Caucus (BCEN); former B.C. Parks Naturalist; Rivers
Canada board member.
Peter Rowlands
Director, Friends of the Stikine Society; member, Water Caucus (BCEN);
Rivers Canada board member.
George Smith
Director, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society; Involved in
Tatshenshini, Northern Rockies and Campaigns Tetrahedron.
Lynn Noel
Developer of educational programs for the Canadian Heritage Rivers
System (CHRS); Editor, Voyages, Canada=92 s Heritage Rivers; Past
Director, Rivers Programs for the Quebec Labrador Foundation (QLF);
Eastern Coordinator, Rivers Canada.
David Marshall
Executive Director, Fraser Basin Management Program; President of the
International Association for Impact Assessment, 1989 - 1990; Rivers
Canada board member.
Mark Angelo
Prominent B.C. rivers activist and conservationist; Head, Fish,
Wildlife and Recreation Department, BCIT; Founder, B.C. Rivers Day;
winner, 10-year National River Conservation Award; board member, B.C.
and Canadian Heritage Rivers and Rivers Canada.
Thomas Cassidy Jr
General Counsel American Rivers since 1989; Legislative Representative
for the Mono Lake Committee, 1979 - 1982.
Kevin Coyle
President, The National Environmental Education and Training=20
Foundation; Facilitator, Rivers Canada Steering Committee, September
1995, February and September 1996; past President of American Rivers;
past Vice-President, River Network.
Don Elder
Director of National Programs, River Network.
Phil Wallin
President and Founder, River Network.
Peter Lavigne
Deputy Director, For the Sake of the Salmon, Environmental attorney,
writer, educator and non-profit manager.
Terry Glavin
Journalist; ten-years, Native Affairs and Fisheries writer, Vancouver
Sun; Research Associate; Author, Tribal Fisheries of the Fraser Basin
for the Royal Commission of Aboriginal People; Author, Dead Reckoning;
Confronting The Crisis in Pacific Fisheries, 1996.
Rick Bailey
Commercial salmon and herring Fisher; instrumental in the formation of
the Pitt Watershed Network; Band Council member Katzie First Nation.
Ernie Crey
Executive Director of the Sto:Lo Fisheries Authority; former President
of the United Native Nations; previously Economic Development Officer
for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans; panel member with the
Pacific Salmon Commission.
David Ellis
Conservationist, former commercial salmon troller.
Fred Fortier
Chairman, Shuswap Nation Fisheries Commission; Chairman, Canadian
Columbia Inter-tribal Fisheries Commission; member, North Thompson
Indian Band Council.
Leonard George
Spiritual, cultural leader and Chief Tsleil-Waututh (Burrard) First
Nation.
Craig Orr
Executive Director, Steelhead Society of B.C.
Catherine Stewart
Fisheries and oceans campaigner for Greenpeace Canada; Rivers Canada
board member.
Chestor Moore
Nisga'a artist, musician and story teller.
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