DEFENCE CONTRACT

WEST VANCOUVER-based Av-
cat Training Inc., has been
awarded a $419,430 contract to
develop and test a new training
method for the National Defence
Ministry.

The aim is to create distant
teaching concupts than can be us-
ed to train reserve personnel in
remote locations from a central
area. Work on the contract will
maintain two jobs for about 20
months.

FUEL CELLS

BALLARD POWER Systems of
North Vancouver has received a
$239,333 contract to investigate
the application of fuel cells in
submarine propulsion systems for
the National Defence Ministry.

Ballard, a world leader in fuel
cell technology, will try to find
suitable ways of powering hybrid
submarines that can reduce vul-
nerability to detection.

The contract will maintain 1.5
person years of employment on
Oct. 15, 1991.

PATROL VESSEL

NORTH VANCOUVER-based
Hourston Glascraft Ltd., has won
a $63,470 contract to supply the
Fisheries and Oceans Ministry
with a patrol vessel to be used
along the B.C. coast. .

Work on the vessel, which is to
be delivered by Dec. 15, 1990, will
create two person years of
employment and maintain two
more, .

STARK NAMED
CAPT. NORMAN C. Stark has

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been named port manager and
chief executive officer for the
Vancouver Port Corp., (VPC),
Capt. Hector D. Perry, VPC
board chairman recently announc-
ed.

Perry cited Stark’s global expe-
rience and world-wide shipping
and port industry contacts as
valuable assets for the pert and a
driving factor behind the ap-
pointment.

“As our second in command
since 1985, and as acting port
manager since April, Norman
Stark has demonstrated the vision
and practical flexibility so vital to
this job,”’ said Perry. ‘“We have
every confidence that his experi-
ence will continue to provide
leadership as the port grows in
importance to Canadian trade.”

Stark joined the VPC in 1985 as
assistant port manager and was
named deputy port manager and
the VPC’s chief operating: officer
in 1988. He was appointed acting
port manager in April of this year

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to replace outgoing port manager
Francis MacNaughton.

Stark has guided the VPC into
several new initiatives, including
the introduction of the VPC’s new
land use-land management plan-
ning process known as Port 2010.
He has also been involved in a
variety of environmental pro-
grams, including the hiring of a
full-time environmental services
Manager and the commissioning
of a risk assessment of tanker
traffic in Burrard Intfet.

He has also played a lead role
in the development of a system of
electronic data interchange for the
shipping industry in Vancouver
and across Canada.

Stark launched his international
maritime career in 1964 as a cadet
in the British Merchant Navy.

In the past six weeks Stark has
addressed major international
conferences in Anchorage, Alaska,
Yokohama, Japan and Buenos
Aires, Argentina.

BANK BIRTHDAY

THE ROYAL Bank branch at Se-
cond Street and Lonsdale in North
Vancouver will celebrate its 80th
birthday on Nov. 29,

Taking part in a cake cutting
ceremony, starting at 11 a.m., will
be North Vancouver City Mayor
Jack Loucks and Royal Bank
North Shore area manager Garry
Bader.

TOURISM NEEDED
CANADA MUST increase its

tourism marketing budget to be

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globally competitive as an interna-
tional tourist destination, Minister
of State for Small Business and
Tourism Tom Hockin recently
said.

“We will spend $25 million on
tourism marketing next year but
we need to spend more to be
globally competitive,'’’ Hockin
told a recent meeting of the B.C.
and Yukon Hotets’ Association.

He added that in 1989 the fed-
eral government spent $1.6 billion
through departments and pro-
grams affecting tourism.

A co-operative approach to
tourism marketing by government,
the tourism industry and = the
private sector is needed if Canada
is to be made the ‘most sought
after tourist destination in the
world,’* said Hockin.

Describing tourism as the fastest
growing industry in the world,
Hockin said the federal govern-
ment has recognized tourism as
being central to Canada’s eco-
nomic welfare and named tourism
as a strategic industry.

Hockin said that for Canada to
reach its goal as a popular inter-
national tourist destination, the
federal government must sell
Canada by targeting the interna-
tional marketplace and there must
be co-ordination of all depart-
ments and programs affecting
tourism and a co-ordinated ap-
proach to the environment.

He added that a soon-to-be-
released survey of 9,000 United
States residents gives Canada high
marks as a tourist destination.

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