GaLTT makes all minutes of AGMs and board meetings available, along with other documents that may be of public interest. (Some documents may only exist in hardcopy formats.)
AGM minutes
GaLTT’s Secretary ensures that complete minutes of AGMs are recorded and they are presented the following year for approval by the membership. Minutes of AGMs are posted here after they are approved.
- Read the AGM minutes from 2010 to 2019.
- Read the AGM minutes for 2020.
- Read the AGM minutes for 2021.
- Read the AGM minutes for 2022.
- Read the AGM minutes for 2023.
- Read the AGM minutes for 2024.
Board meeting minutes
GaLTT’s Secretary ensures that complete minutes of board meetings are recorded. Please email secretary@galtt.ca if you wish to receive a copy of minutes from a Board of Directors meeting.
Newsletters
You can trace GaLTT’s activities through our newsletters: titles indicate publishing dates, the newsletters cover activities in the previous year (or seasons). (Older unlinked files are only available in hardcopy format.)
On the record
When issues arise relating to our mandate, GaLTT may take a public stance. Click the links below to read some recent position documents.
- 2022-10: Letter to the Editor regarding shore accesses
- 2022-03: Joint Gulf Island conservancies response to the Islands Trust Policy Review Statement.
- 2021-10: Letter to the RDN re advancing the planning timeline for Coats Marsh
- 2021-09: Letter to The Nature Trust on the draining of Coats Marsh
- 2021-06: Sounder article on tree-cutting on Gabriola
- 2021-03: Letter to Municipal Affairs supporting the Islands Trust’s appeal for greater authority to implement and enforce environmental protection measures for forest ecosystems
- 2021-03: Letter to the Attorney-General of BC in support of ensuring private recreational access crossing private lands (March 2021) UPDATE October 2021: application to appeal land closure to the Supreme Court of Canada was denied.
- 2021-02: Letter to MLA Doug Routley in support of increased funding for BC Parks
- 2021-02: Letter to the Sounder Editor on shoreline erosion at Pilot Bay
- 2021-01: Letter to MLA Doug Routley asking for action on shoreline erosion at Pilot Bay in Gabriola Sands Provincial Park
- 2021-01: Letter to BC Parks in support for making Saturnina Island a park
- Submission to Gabriola Housing Matters public consultation on conservation threats and priorities
- 2020-05/06: Letters to the Sounder Editor on trail building on government-held lands
- 2019-11: Letter to the Gabriola Local Trust Committee expressing support for establishing a new Ecological Protection (EP) Land Use Designation
Honorary Life Members
From time to time the Gabriola Land & Trails Trust recognizes extraordinary contributions from members by granting them an Honorary Membership. These are all individuals who have gone “above and beyond” in the work they’ve done to support GaLTT and its goals:
- Don McCollum (2014)
- Luanne McCollum (2014)
- Sally Robinson (2014)
- Anne Drozd (2015)
- Leanne Milman (2015)
- John Peirce (2015)
- Lynne Young (2016)
- Randy Young (2016)
- Tom Cameron (2020)
- Kerry Marcus (2022)
- Jenni Gehlbach (2023)
- Anne Landry (2024)
- Frank Shoemaker (2024)
- Rob Brockley (2025)
