Acknowledgements 2012
We gratefully acknowledge the financial assistance of the Government of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage and Service Canada. Also thanks to our Presenting Partners, Media Sponsors, Corporate Donors, Event Sponsors and individual sponsors.
Donors & Sponsors:
Festival Supporters:
How you can contribute
There are many ways in which you can be a part of the Festival. Contact the Festival office for more details.
Government Support
We gratefully acknowledge the financial assistance of the Government of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage (Canada Arts Presentation Fund) and Service Canada (Canada Summer Jobs).
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts which last year invested $20 million in writing and publishing through Canada.
Nous remercions de son soutien le Conseil des Arts du Canada, qui a investi 20 million dollars l'an dernier dans les letters et l'édition à travers le Canada.
The Province of British Columbia through
the British Columbia Arts Council
Presenting Partners
Corporate Donors
- Investors Group Matching Gift Program
- D. Lewis Contracting
- Harbour Publishing
- Pierrot To Go
Event Sponsorships 2012
- Event 1 — Investors Group
- Event 2 — Lehigh Materials
- Event 3 — D&M Publishers
- Event 4 — Jane Darling
- Event 5 — J. Wayne Rowe
- Event 6 — Talewind Books
- Event 7 — Lois A. Potter
- Event 8 — Capilano University
- Event 9 — Sunshine Coast Credit Union
- Event 10 — The Coast Group
- Event 11 — Sunshine Coast Bed & Breakfast, Cottage Owners Association
- Event 12 — Extras
- Event 13 — Insightful Visions
- Event 14 — Driftwood Inn / Pebbles Restaurant
- Event 15 — DundeeWealth
- Event 16 — Gael Johnstone / RBC Dominion Securities
- Event 17 — Strait Coffee
- Event 18 — One O One Office Supply
- Event 19 — Coast Reporter
- Event 20 — Women & Money Inc.
- Event 21 — Clayton's Heritage Market
Program Advertisers
- Sunshine Coast Arts Council
- Fresh from the Coast
- Coast Books
- Harbour Publishing
- Today's Entree
- Gibsons Building Supplies
Community Partners
Sunshine Coast Association for Community Living
In Kind Support
- BC Bookworld
- Casey's Country Gardens
- Clay Hepburns' Electrical Services
- Les Fleurs de Fi
- Petals Flower Farm
- Pierrot To Go
- Sunshine Coast Nursery
- Ulrike & Berndt Rindt
Thank You to our Festival Supporters
* = 30th Anniversary Legacy Endowment Donors
Roll of Honour
- Jean Bennett *
- Dr. Donald R. Bland
- Heather Forward *
- Michael & Diane Goldberg *
- Phyllis Janeway *
- Maureen McBeath *
- Bryan & Rose Norton
- Len & Lynn Pakulak *
- Maurice & Vi Roden
- Jane Sheil *
Benefactors
- Stan & Diane Anderson
- Debbie Mealia & Jim Budd
- Bonnie & Eric Paetkau *
- Susan & Lonnie Propas *
- Jim & Doreen Rainer *
Festival Donors
- Elinor Ames *
- Patricia Charles
- Peter & Elaine Clayden *
- Yvette Cormier *
- Don & Patti Gunning
- Kristina Haedrich
- Sahra Hailey *
- Joan Harvey *
- Leslie Henderson
- John & Shelley Hilditch
- Wendy Hunt & Chris Staples *
- Helen Ible *
- Connie Johnston
- Katherine Johnston *
- Mary Actor Kelly & James Benton Kelly *
- Kathy Kennedy
- Julie Kirkland
- Janelyn Kotaska *
- Eleanor Mae *
- Keith & Linda Maxwell
- Noriko McKee
- Karen C. McKenzie *
- Barbara Nelles
- Jean Parker *
- Susan Phillips
- Joan Pratt *
- Margaret Ratcliffe *
- Phyllis Robb
- Sheila Rogers *
- David Rushton *
- Maureen Sawkins *
- Andrew Scott *
- Heather Smith *
- Margaret Taylor *
- Margaret Thorne
- Chieri Uegaki *
- George Waddell
- Hal Wake
- John & Gail Watson
- Jane Whiteley
Book Mark
- Robert A. Bennie *
- Sue Biddle
- Lynn Chapman
- Marion Chell
- Isobel Cole
- Bev Craig
- John Denham
- Maurice Egan
- Claire Finlayson
- Linda Graham
- Karen Hameling
- Nika Hansen *
- Sally Haugen
- Clyde Hertzman
- Rita Howie
- Suzanne Indridson *
- Nancy Inglis *
- Eve Johnson
- Fern Keene
- Judith Kenly *
- Mary Lang
- Alison Leaney
- Carol LeBlanc
- Helen Maberley
- Marjorie Ann Malcolm
- Sandy McLeod
- Bonnie Michel
- Margaret & Larry Moore
- Carol Muller
- Deidre Munro
- Larry Musser
- Susan Nelson
- Margaret O'Coffey
- Licia Paddison
- Marion Proulx *
- Flo Rublee
- Clare Saadien
- Donna Shugar *
- Helen Smith
- Nancy Standfield
- E. E. Wall
We thank the following for their donations of books:
Ampersand Inc.
Caitlin Press
ECW Press
Freehand Books
Harbour Publishing
McClelland & Stewart
Nightwood Editions
Ronsdale Press
University of Alberta Press
Special Thanks
- Joan Graham, Rockwood Lodge and Seaside Centre
- Perry Schmitt and Crew, Parks Department, District of Sechelt
- St. Hilda's Anglican Church and our neighbours
- Teresa Nightingale, Attention Web and Graphic Design
- Marje Umezuki
- Karen Weissenborn, Karen Weissenborn Design
- Sharon Brown and Andreas Schroeder
- xwamstut Dance Group
- Boyd Norman, Office Alternatives
- Pat Dallin
- Rosemary and Bill Terry