British Columbia

Vice President & Past President
Jane Boyer
Email: nottinghammaid@gmail.com

Secretary/Recorder
Roger Dawson
Email: rdawson@dawsonlawyers.com

Website: www.stgeorgebc.ca

FORTHCOMING EVENT

WATERLOO-TRAFALGAR LUNCHEON – WEDNESDAY 21^ST OCTOBER 2026

Folks, here is the announcement for our annual fall luncheon to be held at the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club.  The company is great and the food superb.  Enhance trade within the Royal Commonwealth of Nations is certainly a timely topic.  Please be sure to register with Shawn if you plan to attend.  See you there!  Best wishes, Dan, Past President, Royal Society of St. George, BC Branch.

                                      Enhanced Trade Within the Commonwealth

An Idea Whose Time has Come

The Waterloo-Trafalgar Luncheon, 2026

Wednesday, October 21, 2026

Shawn M. Wade, CD, LL.M.

Each year we hold the Waterloo-Trafalgar Luncheon in conjunction with The Royal Society of St. George. It focuses either on an historical topic or the news story of the year. This year's topic is—Enhanced Trade within the Commonwealth.

 The recent actions of the United States Government to create an "America First,” or, "Fortress America,” or to "Enact the Munroe Doctrine," or to execute "Project 2025" have caused the international trade and world political order, successfully in place since 1946, to dissolve.  In the centre of this seeming state of chaos, new alignments of nations, groupings and regions are starting to emerge.  Enhanced Trade within the Commonwealth is one of them.

The Commonwealth is home to an amazing 1/4 of the world's markets and home to 1/3rd of its consumers. It is united by the three Commonwealth Commonalities of Language, Law and Legislative outcome.  The Commonwealth has half a millennium of association and co-operation.  Most of its consumers are under 40 years of age and a significant number of them are located in the emerging, dynamic, Indo-Pacific region.  Simply put—this is a market ready to take off!

Come and join with us as we investigate this concept, the implications, and  scope for changing the rules of International Trade.  Enhanced Trade within the Commonwealth—a concept whose time has come! 

Event:  "Enhanced Trade within the Commonwealth"  Waterloo-Trafalgar Luncheon 2026

Date:  Wednesday, October 21, 2026.

Time:  11:45 for 12:15  

Venue:  The Fireside Lounge, The Royal Vancouver Yacht Club 

3811 Point Grey Road, Vancouver British Columbia

Price:  $71.00; $40.00 for Students. 

RSVP to Shawn Wade at shawnmwade@hotmail.com or 604 522-5134

PAST EVENTS

Sunday 24th August 2025

June 7 2025
Join us at Fairways Golf residence
Pitt Meadows
RSSGB  hosts fashion show with tea
Fundraiser for Cancer BC Research
Light refreshments will be served. Open cash bar available too. Please bring your own cup & saucer Cost $15.00
RSVP denisedewan@yahoo.ca

We welcome everyone to join us for wonderful afternoons to share our love of England, all things English and to hear more of future summer/autumn events.

Submitted by Jayne Boyer Vice President and Past President
RSSGBC

PAST EVENTS

17th May 2025 - Our Queen Victoria Weekend Tea held in The Royal Canadian Legion, Port Coquitlam was a wonderful fulfilled Tea. We had 2 trivia quizzes - a General British quiz and also a wonderful British music quiz. Special prizes were awarded to winners.  We had 5 new members and had a drawer for one prize...a 1200+ piece jigsaw puzzle 4d of The City of London.