Three men and a ship will be recognized for their contribution to the province's marine sector next month as the Maritime Museum of British Columbia hands out its first series of the S.S.
Beaver Medal. Naval architect Robert Allan, maritime lawyer Peter Bernard and marine industrialist Dennis Washington will receive the museum's Beaver Medal for Maritime Excellence at a luncheon Nov. 20 in Vancouver. A special award is to be given Black Ball Ferry Line's M.V. Coho, which has connected Vancouver Island and Washington for more than 50 years. "We are most pleased to award the S.S.
Beaver Medal to these outstanding contributors to our vital provincial oceans sector," says awards committee chairman retired Commodore Jan Drent.
"These three are worthy recipients to receive a medal crafted from an iconic ship." The award medals are struck from copper and other materials salvaged from the 1954 wreck of the S.S. Beaver, the first steamship on the West Coast. Built in Britain for the Hudson's Bay Company in 1835, the Beaver worked B.C.'s waters for 53 years.
LOCAL BREWERS DECORATED
Victoria's craft brewers brought back a cask full of hardware from the annual B.C. Beer Awards held in Vancouver. In total, local beer barons won 15 awards, with Vancouver Island Brewing and Driftwood Brewery leading the way with four awards each, while Lighthouse took home three awards, Phillips Brewing two and Spinnakers and Canoe one apiece. Vancouver Island won gold in the strong beer category for Her-mannator Ice Bock, silver for Hermann's Dark Lager in the specialty lager category, silver for the Sea Dog Amber Ale in the session ale category and bronze for Iron Plow Harvest Märzen in the specialty lager section. Driftwood won two silvers for its Bird Of Prey Flanders Red in the sour category and for Old Cellar Dweller 2012 in the strong category, and two bronze - one for its White Bark Ale in the wheat category, and one for its Singularity in the stout category.
Lighthouse won gold in the stout category for Keepers Stout, gold in the wheat category for its Belgian White and silver for its Dark Chocolate Port in the porter category. Phillips won gold for its Skookum Cascadian Brown Ale in the Cascadian Dark Ale category and bronze in the porter category for its Longboat Chocolate Porter. Spinnakers won bronze in the dark ale category for its Cascadia Dark Ale and Canoe won bronze in the pale category for its River Rock Bitter. -
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