Why do we give the Ray Pillman award?
Ray Pillman may not be a household name to many of our members, but his contributions to Coastal Recreation in BC are too many to list in this small space. Ray was a member of the Outdoor Recreation Council of BC and of SKABC. Since the mid ‘80’s he has worked patiently and diligently on many conservation and recreation projects including the establishment of the South Moresby Archipelago National Park Reserve. His contributions that were driven by his love of the outdoors, our coast, conservation, and the amazing province in which we live.
Winner Fred Pishalski
Tribute by Paul Grey presented at the 2024 AGM
The Ray Pillman award this year goes to Fred Pishalski, who is also driven by his love of the outdoors and the BC coast, dedication to the BC Marine Trails and dedication to his home club, South Island Sea Kayak Association. As a member of the Trails Development committee Fred has helped created our BCMT safety mandate, evaluated and used our heatmap system sometimes called gap analysis system between campsites, completed multiple site assessments, and processed hundreds of sites particularly as the Vancouver Island Region Manager. For SISKA he has dedicated countless hours towards workshops, online speaker sessions, managing Facebook, and so on. Another long list of dedication.Today we would like to honour Fred for his contributions to BC coastal recreation.
Past Winners of the
Ray Pillman Award
2022 – Stephanie Meinke
