2012 Sponsors

The Everett Crowley Park Comimittee thanks all of our volunteers, and acknowledges these sponsors for their generous financial support of Earth Day Vancouver 2011:

Presenter of Earth Day Vancouver 2011:

• ParkLane Homes, Wesgroup – Wesgroup Properties is a family-owned real estate company based in Vancouver, BC, that specializes in the development of sustainable, intelligently conceived, mixed-use spaces.
  (Web: www.wesgroup.ca)

Sponsors of Earth Day Vancouver 2011:

(Sponsors listed in alphabetical order.)

• City of Vancouver – In the 1870s, Vancouver was founded as a sawmill settlement called Granville. In 1886 the City was incorporated and renamed "Vancouver," after Captain George Vancouver, a British naval captain who explored the area in 1792. The City of Vancouver is governed by a provincial statute called the Vancouver Charter.
  (Web: vancouver.ca)
• Encorp – Encorp Pacific (Canada) is a federally incorporated, not-for-profit, product stewardship corporation with beverage container management as their core business. Encorp's mandate is to develop, manage and improve systems to recover used packaging and end-of-life products from consumers and ensure that they are properly recycled and not land-filled or incinerated.
  (Web: www.encorp.ca)
• Vancity – Vancity is Canada's largest credit union. Formed in 1946 today we have $14.5 billion in assets, more than 400,000 members and 61 branches throughout Greater Vancouver, the Fraser Valley, Victoria and Squamish. Vancity and its subsidiary companies are guided by a commitment to corporate social responsibility, and to improve the quality of life in the communities where we live and work.
  (Web: www.vancity.com)
• Vancouver Board of Parks & Recreation – The first resolution of the first City Council in 1886 was to petition the Federal Government for the use as park, a 1,000-acre (404 hectares) peninsula which we now know as Stanley Park. Council designed an appointed Park Committee to manage its new charge by building trails and gardens. By 1890, the Park Board had become an elected body and remains the only Canadian board of its kind.
  (Web: vancouver.ca/parks)
• Vancouver Courier – The Vancouver Courier is a Canadian semi-weekly local newspaper published in Vancouver, British Columbia by Postmedia Network Inc. Currently, it is Canada's largest distributed community newspaper, with a weekly distribtuion of 265,000. Various editions of the paper are distributed from UBC to Boundary Road. The newspaper began as the Eburne News in 1908. The paper has twice been named "Best Community Newspaper in B.C." and was the second runner-up in the Canadian Community Newspaper Association's general excellence competition.
  (Web: vancourier.com)