<div dir="ltr">Oh no -- I am so sorry to hear this.<div><br></div><div>We were all gifted by his presence, his patience and his guiding light.  He will be missed.</div><div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>all the best, Tracey</div>-----------------<div>Tracey Axelsson</div><div>Executive Director - <b>Vancouver Community Network (VCN)</b></div><div>280 - 111 West Hastings Street,    Vancouver, BC    V6B 1H4</div><div>t: 778.724.0241    </div><div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">                             <b>Consider the environment before printing.</b></span></div></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">VCN offers great services to all for IT support and web development at very affordable rates. <br>We deeply appreciate your referral of </span><a href="https://www.techteam.vcn.bc.ca/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">Tech|team</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> & </span><a href="https://www.webteam.vcn.bc.ca/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">Web|team</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> services. </span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"></span><br>Our social enterprise work supports VCN's 
charitable efforts; providing free access to the Internet, email, and 
computer access to youth, seniors and vulnerable people in our community.<span style="font-size:12.8px"></span><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">--------------------</span></div><div><br></div><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 9:42 PM James Van Leeuwen <<a href="mailto:jvl@dusk.ca">jvl@dusk.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Thanks for this Marita. <div><br><div>Brian was a pioneer in the most meaningful and respectable sense of the word.</div><div><br></div><div>I will remember him, and I will celebrate his legacy.</div><div><br></div><div>He was indeed a remarkable man.</div><div><br></div><div>James</div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Oct 8, 2021, at 6:25 PM, Marita Moll <<a href="mailto:mmoll@ca.inter.net" target="_blank">mmoll@ca.inter.net</a>> wrote:</div><br><div>
  

    
  
  <div dir="ltr"><p>I am so sorry to say that Brian Beaton has died. Brian was an
      active member and supporter of TC (Telecommunities Canada) right
      into early this year. I will miss his acute insight and
      perspectives grounded in the community contexts he knew so well.
      He was a remarkable man who had a vision of community-owned
      infrastructure from early days. I always wanted to be a fly on the
      wall in the National Broadband Taskforce discussions. He came out
      of that with some serious telco/gov't contributions to First
      Nations owned communications networks -- back in the late 1990s.</p><p>Here are a couple of articles about his life.<br>
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                        Brian Beaton – NB Media Co-op</a></div>
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                    Brian Beaton passed away peacefully in Fredericton
                    Hospice on Saturday, October 2, 2021. Before going
                    into his final sleep, Brian spoke of his love for
                    his children and grandchildren, his pride in what
                    they managed to make of their lives, and his
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