Coalition goal: To keep the Garden City lands green in the Agricultural Land Reserve and to steward their natural treasure for agricultural, ecological and open-land park uses for community wellness. The coalition is a community of people who cooperate toward that goal as a public service for the citizens of Richmond, as well as the region, the province, and the world.

We are incorporated as a society in the Province of British Columbia. (See the bottom of this page to look over the society's constitution and bylaws.)

Contact us by email at GardenCityLands@shaw.ca.
Or write to Jim Wright, President, at 8300 Osgoode Dr., Richmond, B.C., V7A 4P1.

2012 Annual Gathering

The 2012 Annual General Meeting of the Garden City Lands Coalition Society will be on Monday, June 18, 2012, at 7 p.m. at The Red Barn, Terra Nova Rural Park. If you support our goal, join (or renew) as shown further down this page or at the door. Twenty-five of our members participated in last year's, and it went well. Whether you participated or not, please renew your membership or join. We didn't manage to get a group photo last year, but the one from our 2010 gathering (below) will have a lot in common with what it would have shown.

Become a member of the society and/or Friend of Garden City!

You can be part of the Coalition in two ways:

• By becoming a "Friend of Garden City." That simply involves being on the opt-in/out emailing list for the Garden City News, typically sent out twice a month. To opt in, simply email GardenCityLands@Shaw.ca with "Subscribe" in the subject line.

• By becoming a member of the incorporated Garden City Lands Coalition Society.(All members of the society are also automatically Friends of Garden City.)

The Garden City Lands Coalition Society welcomes new members. New memberships are for the period from now until June 30, 2013. Being a member is a way to act for a good cause. If you support the purposes of the society (listed in the constitution below), you are invited to belong.

Having many members:

• Adds to our credibility as a group speaking for many citizens.

• Helps offset expenses (and maintain a financial reserve) with the $10 membership fee.

• Facilitates quick action, as well as pervasive communication via word of mouth, web, vehicle. . . .

Membership Option: Free Save Garden City logo sticker, while quantities last. Looks like the logo at the top of this page. At 5.7" diameter (14.3 cm), it is a good size for most vehicle bumpers, and it is easily removable.
Please request a logo sticker only if you intend to display it. It will be mailed to you.

Download a membership application and mail it. Or use PayPal.

To use PayPal to become a member:

• Choose your preferred options below.

• Click the Pay Now button. (It is below the options.)

• Fill in the information when the PayPal form appears on your screen. (The information is used only for membership purposes, such as to inform members of any general meetings.)

• Be aware that you are taking out a membership for the period ending at the end of June 2011.

Note: You don't have to have a PayPal account or even to log in to PayPal in order to pay with it. PayPal gives credit card users the option of continuing without logging in.

Options:

Free removable "Save Garden City" sticker?

Yes, please.No, thank you.

Constitution of the Garden City Lands Coalition Society

 1.    The name of the society is the Garden City Lands Coalition Society.

 2.    The purposes of the society are:

1. To promote and advocate for the preservation as open space of the property in Richmond, British Columbia, commonly known as the “Garden City Lands.”

2. To promote, advocate, educate, research and undertake other activities that will further the establishment, maintenance, expansion or preservation of agricultural uses and other appropriate activities on the Garden City Lands.

3. To undertake similar activities or initiatives as recommended by the membership and executive.

The bylaws of the society are those set out in Schedule B to the Society Act.

Web presence and Gardencitylands.ca languages

Besides the Garden City Lands blog and this website, there is a Garden City Lands Facebook group and a Garden City Lands Coalition Google group.

This website is bilingual, since approximately half the people in Richmond speak a Chinese language. The website uses Traditional Chinese, rather than Simplified Chinese, because the Chinese-language media in Canada generally use Traditional Chinese.

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