To all BCPFFA Affiliates
On behalf of the BCPFFA Executive Board, we invite BCPFFA affiliates local leaders and special guests to attend the 12th Annual Robert E. Hall Conference - Educational Session, Monday, March 6, 2023 from 08:00 to 10:00, followed by the 6th Biennial BC Fallen Fire Fighters Memorial at 12:00pm.
We invite all IAFF / BCPFFA members, families and special guests to attend the 6th Biennial BC Fallen Fire Fighters Memorial.
10:00 - 11:00 - Orientation - Family and Union Reps only, Pender Island Room
10:30am - Black Ball Ferry Terminal for Uniformed Personnel
11:25 am- Parade Step off from Blackball Ferry Terminal, east on Belleville St, south on Government Street, ending at Superior Street, Designated areas for General Public on sidewalks along the parade route.
12:00 Ceremony at the BC Parliament Building South Lawn. Seating for Families only and invited guests.
Robert was a fire fighter with Vancouver, Local 18 and he was a leading voice as BCPFFA Secretary-Treasurer in a decade-long lobby to have the BC Government recognize health risks in fire fighters. On October 31, 2005 Robert led us to the Legislature in Victoria and sat in the public gallery for the first reading of the Worker's Compensation Amendment Act. It recognized 7 cancers as occupational diseases for fire fighters {Brain, Bladder, Colo-rectal, Kidney, Ureter, Primary non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, and primary leukaemia}. Since then, Testicular, Lung, Esophageal cancers and Heart Disease have been added as presumptive.
On August 27, 2007 Rob succumbed to Occupational Cancer. BC Fire Fighters will be forever grateful of his leadership and vision in working with the provincial government to recognize and improve fire fighters' health and safety.
