New Land Surveyor

Both the GIRBC Strata Property Act and Boundary Resolution workshops were held as two half-day online webinars in the second half of 2021. While we intend to return to in-person learning, workshops are currently being held virtually, so please follow the biweekly Association emails for news about GIRBC.

Other webinars that were held over the course of the year included Web Filing, Natural Boundaries, and Changes to the Survey Rules, and we are grateful to Katie Hannah and her colleagues from Surveyor General Operations as well as ABCLS staff members Peter Goodier and Nigel Hemingway for their efforts delivering our CPD program. Moving into 2022 the committee is hoping to offer webinars covering surveys under the Mineral Tenure Act, deformation monitoring and hydrographic surveys. We are always looking for other opportunities to bring meaningful and relevant CPD to members, and if you have any suggestions on topics or potential presenters, then please reach out to the committee by sending us an email at office@abcls.ca.

As always, the committee continues to promote GeoEd as a convenient provider of quality online CPD material made available by other provincial and federal land surveying regulators and academic institutions from across the country. Further information about GeoEd can be found at their website www.geoed.ca.

2021 is rapidly coming to a close, and that means that practising land surveyors are reaching the end of another 3-year CPD cycle. Please ensure that you have completed your 45-hour requirement and reported all your relevant CPD hours by December 31 using the GeoEd CPD Reporting Tool which can be accessed via the ABCLS website.

On behalf of the Continuing Professional Development Committee, I would like to wish you all continued good health, happiness, and prosperity for 2022. ✥

Photo (L-R) Dave Rutherford, Olivia Sabo, and Cade Brown. Olivia Sabo, BCLS #1039 Olivia Sabo was commissioned on September 20, 2021, by Dave Rutherford in Burnaby. She was born in New Westminster and grew up in Mission. Olivia was commissioned as a Canada Lands Surveyor in 2019.

Pursuing land surveying as a profession appealed to Olivia because she wanted a career with a mix of office and outdoor work, and an opportunity to travel and see remote areas of British Columbia. She enjoys the variety that the profession offers and finds the historical aspects of the profession very interesting. Olivia would like to thank Cade Brown for his continued professional guidance and her friends and family for their support. When Olivia is not working, she enjoys hiking, skiing, and travelling. ✥