We are grateful to our donors and partners whose contributions enable our Society to operate an inspiring community aquarium and to offer engaging educational and community programming – all towards a vision of fostering an educated community that actively cares for the health of our oceans.
This Year’s Community and Corporate Partners
Orca Partnership
($50,000+ cash & in kind benefits)
BC Ferries and SeaForward
Pacific White-sided Dolphin Partnership
($25,000+ cash & in kind benefits)
Barby and Karl Paulus
Harbour Seal Partnership
($10,000+ cash & in kind benefits)
Unni and Fred Claridge
Barb Cochran and Peter Grant
Doreen Oosterhuis & Doug Marteinson
Joanie and David Tara
School District 46 (Sunshine Coast)
Salmon Sponsorship
($5,000+ cash and in kind benefits)
Debbie and Amadeu Amaral
Barby and Karl Paulus
Touchstone at Gospel Rock
This Year’s Rockfish Charm Donors
Each Rockfish charm represents a $500 donation
Schools of Rockfish charms:
100 Women Who Care Sunshine Coast (8 x Rockfish charms)
Bob Crawford (8 x Rockfish charms)
Bruce and Lis Welch and family (6 x Rockfish charms)
Greenwave Marine (5 x Rockfish charms)
Errol Lipschitz and Judy Rother (4 x Rockfish charms)
Sverre Family: Dave, Christy, Carl and John (4 x Rockfish charms)
Sunshine Coast Regional District (4 x Rockfish charms)
Hetherington Family: Joann, Patricia and Sarah (3 x Rockfish charms)
McDonald/Robertson Family: Pete, Michelle and Pam (3 x Rockfish charms)
Betty and Ken Oka and Kenna Danyliw (3 x Rockfish charms)
Doug and Sheila Rogers (3 x Rockfish charms)
Sunshine Kayaking (2 x Rockfish charms)
All Tides Consulting (2 x Rockfish charms)
Amanda Amaral, Simone and Eloise White (2 x Rockfish charms)
Freedom Diving Systems (2 x Rockfish charms)
Sally Graham (2 x Rockfish charms)
RR Smith Community Fund (2 x Rockfish charms)
Individual donors of Rockfish charms:
Penny Albers
Heather Blackwood
Carol Carr-Anderssen
Anne Duffy
John Enveldson
Rhidian Gatrill
Franziska Kaltenegger
Maureen McBeath
Joanne Pearson and Wayne Rowe
Charles Stephens
Adam Sikander
TD Bank
Past Donors and Partners
Community and Corporate Partners:
Debbie and Amadeu Amaral ($5,000)
Schools of Rockfish Charm Donors:
The Rotary Club of Gibsons (8 x Rockfish charms)
Debbie and Amadeu Amaral (2 x Rockfish charms)
Barby and Karl Paulus (2 x Rockfish charms)
Bruce and Lis Welch and family (6 x Rockfish charms)
We are grateful to the generous community supporters who helped us envision and equip our community aquarium:
Our strategic partners: Town of Gibsons, Community Futures and Sunshine Coast Community Foundation
Our amazing 350+ volunteers and hundreds of donors
Our major contributors who supported our capital campaign: Island Coast Economic Trust, TELUS, Government of Canada, Province of BC, Washington Foundation (Seaspan), Craftsman Collision, and the family and friends of Nicholas Sonntag.
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