Greg Hamilton Toasts the Rotary Club Of Vancouver
The Rotary Club Of Vancouver is in Rotary District 5040; and was chartered on 1 April 1913 as the second Club in Canada and the first in British Columbia (their sister Club is Tokyo Setagaya South). The one hundred and three (103) members led by President William Davidson, meet at the Terminal City Club, 837 Hastings Street West, Vancouver, BC on Tuesday from 12noon to 1.30pm. Their achievements include: founding the Rotary World Help Network comprising 38 Clubs in British Columbia; shipping more than CAD 89million worth of medical equipment and computers to third world countries; being active in Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA), Rotary Youth Exchange (RYE), Adventures in Citizenship, Literary Programmes, sponsoring Interact and Rotaract, and making individual grants of CAD7,500pa to assist two students to complete years 11 and 12. Their current major project is the Rotary Hearing Foundation financed from an annual Bike-A-Thon which has so far raised in excess of CAD 2million.