Meet newest member of the Rotary Club of Ladner
Posted
on Jul 29, 2014
Wilbur Walrond the newest member of the Rotary Club of Ladner was inducted on July 29th by Denis Denischuk and PDG Penny Offer.
Wilbur Walrond has been a Rotarian for 40 years. He has been a member of the Rotary Club of Richmond and the Rotary Club of Steveston. He served as the president of the Richmond Rotary Club twice.
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Wilbur received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee medal in 2012 for his more than 50 years of continuous service to the community especially in assisting new immigrants from Trinidad and Tobago to settle in Canada.
Wilbur was born in 1938 in Couva, Trinidad, the most southerly island of the archipelago of submerged mountaintops known as the West Indies, which stretches from the southern tip of Florida to the northeast coast of Venezuela, South America.
In 1958, he immigrated to Canada to pursue his studies at the University of British Columbia, and in 1963, graduated with a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Civil Engineering.
In 1962 he married Sylvia Richards and together they have two sons Wilbur Alan and Randall Owen.
In 1968 he started his Walrond Consultants Ltd. Structural Engineers and in 1999 he formed Walrond Realty Inc. specializing in Land Assembly.
In 1987 he was a founding member of The Trinidad & Tobago Cultural Society of B.C. of which he has served 7 terms as its President.
In 2000 he was a founding member of the British Columbia Organization of Caribbean Cultural Associations of B.C. serving as its President for four years.
He has resided in the City of Richmond, B.C since 1965 and served as Chairman of that City’s Design panel.
In 1991 he was a founding member of the World Fellowship of Rotarian Gourmets, which now has three active Chapters in British Columbia.
In January 1985 he became a Freemason and in 2001 he was appointed District Deputy Grand Master of District 25 in the Grand Lodge of B.C. & Yukon.
He and Sylvia are the proud grandparents of three girls, Kennedy, Mikayla (centre) and Keisha.