Professional Activities

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Awards

Outdoor Writers of Canada, Book Award of Merit, 1996

Outdoor Writers of Canada, Book Award of Merit, 1995

Northwest Outdoor Writers’ Association, Second Place Award (Book on any Outdoor Subject) Excellence in Craft Contest, 1993-04

Nikon-Canadian Recreational Canoeing Association Photographic Contest, Western Canada Winner, 1988

Outdoor Writers of Canada, Nisson Book Award, 2nd in Canada, 1990

NAUI Canada Special Recognition Award for dedicated, unselfish and outstanding service given to the diving community in 1978

Media Club of Canada Award, Vancouver Branch, for Best Feature in a Magazine, 1975

Organization Affiliations

The Writers’ Union of Canada

Outdoor Writers of Canada

Northwest Outdoor Writers’ Association

Invited Speaker

BC Great Outdoor Show, Vancouver, 1990

Great Literary Dinner Party, Vancouver Public Aquarium, 1990

Paddle Fest, Vancouver, 1988

Paddle Fest, Vancouver, 1987

Periodical Writers Association of Canada, Vancouver, 1985

Sea State ’82 Dive Seminar, Portland, 1982

Parks Canada, National Marine Park Workshop, Ottawa, 1979

Alberta Scuba Divers Council Annual General Meeting, 1977

After a discussion/
slide-show
by Betty at Alberta Scuba Divers Council AGM, members treated her to a remarkable week of October diving including a night dive through a sunken dam in Lake Minewanka, Banff National Park; a dive to see a small wreck with metal “beaver” relics scattered around it at Waterton Lake National Park where the beavers served as money in the early days; beaver money relics and an exotic dive in Patricia Lake near Jasper to explore the prototype of a ship built of ice following — it is said — the inspiration of Winston Churchill who thought an aircraft carrier of ice might be as unsinkable as an iceberg is. When World War Two ended the incomplete aircraft carrier model was scuttled — under water it looked like the back of a giant refrigerator.
Who knows — it might have worked!