Event Calendar
Col E.P. Green, CD - Speaker’s Coordinator
| 14 April Meeting |
| Speaker: | Major Richard H. Eaton, CD |
| Topic: | Low Intensity Warfare |
| Place: |
The Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary's)
Officers' Mess, Room 314, Bay Street Armoury,
715 Bay Street, Victoria, BC.
(South entrance on Field Street) |
| Time: | 1130 for 1200 hrs luncheon |
| Cost: | $15 (pay at the door) |
| Biographical Sketch: |
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Major Richard H. Eaton is ‘A’ Company commander, The Seaforth Highlanders of
Canada; a militia regiment in Vancouver. Although born and raised in
Vancouver, he joined the British Army, attended Sandhurst and served between
1981 and 1989 as an officer with the Parachute Regiment. He also completed a
two-year exchange with the Royal Marines. In addition to serving in Norway,
the Middle East and elsewhere in Europe, Richard completed three tours of
duty in Northern Ireland. There he was a platoon commander, company
operations officer and acting company commander in various areas including
Belfast, Fermanagh and South Armagh.In civilian life, Major Eaton is a
partner in his own Victoria based management-consulting firm, Berlin, Eaton
& Associates Ltd.
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| 12 May Meeting |
| Speaker: | Victoria Chief Constable Paul Battershill |
| Topic: | Policing The City of Victoria |
| Place: |
The Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary's)
Officers' Mess, Room 314, Bay Street Armoury,
715 Bay Street, Victoria, BC.
(South entrance on Field Street) |
| Time: | 1100 for 1130 hrs luncheon
Note the time change for this once! |
| Cost: | $15 (pay at the door) |
| Biographical Sketch: |
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Chief Battershill was appointed Victoria Chief of Police in 1999 after
serving 23 years with the Vancouver Police Force. Amongst his many duties, is
chairman of both the Steering Committee implementing the PRIME BC police
database for BC and the RCMP Foundation that recognizes outstanding media
achievement in BC. He also chairs the RCMP National Forensic Laboratory
Committee. In 1997 in Vancouver, he was a founding director of the E-Comm
Corporation in the lower mainland. E-Comm established the first integrated
multi-agency public safety service in North America including police, fire
and ambulance in wide area radio information systems, 911 and post disaster
facilities. In 1993, he was a member of the Justice Oppal Royal Commission on
Policing. He was an elected police union official in the 1980s.
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| 8 September Meeting |
| Speaker: | BGen (Ret) Jim Hanson |
| Topic: | Some ways of looking at the World |
| 13 October Meeting |
| Speaker: | RAdm Jean-Yves Forcier, OMM, CD |
| Topic: | Current Operations |
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