{"id":850,"date":"2017-01-21T21:36:03","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T21:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrisbrownrealestate.ca\/blog\/?p=850"},"modified":"2017-01-21T21:43:41","modified_gmt":"2017-01-21T21:43:41","slug":"north-shore-peak-named-after-search-and-rescue-leader-tim-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisbrownrealestate.ca\/blog\/north-shore-peak-named-after-search-and-rescue-leader-tim-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"North Shore peak named after search and rescue leader Tim Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Taylor and Curtis Jones address the media and gathered dignitaries on the official naming of Tim Jones Peak.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\nBRIAN MORTON<\/span>(Vancouver Sun)
\nPublished: <\/strong>January 20, 2017
\nUpdated: <\/strong>January 20, 2017 11:53 PM
\nFiled Under:\u00a0<\/strong>The Province > News > Local News<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Taylor Jones will\u00a0be reminded of her father \u2014 the\u00a0longtime leader of North Shore Rescue who died in 2014\u00a0\u2014 whenever she hikes a North Shore peak that will bear his name.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo this day, we feel he\u2019s always with us in the mountains,\u201d she\u00a0said at a news conference with Premier Christy Clark in North Vancouver on Friday night.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re so thankful for this recognition.\u00a0Our family will hike and ski-tour to Tim Jones Peak regularly\u2026 and be reminded of how lucky we were to spend part of our lives with such a caring, compassionate and adventurous father.\u201d<\/p>\n

The province will introduce legislation in March to rename one of Mount Seymour\u2019s peaks to Tim Jones Peak in honour of Jones, who died after collapsing on that mountain,\u00a0Clark said.<\/p>\n

Jones\u2019s son Curtis, also a longtime member of North Shore Rescue, called his father a \u201cmountain\u201d of a man.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot particularly tall, but a presence when he walked into a room. He\u2019d be unbelievably proud of this honour. This will have a profound impact on us as a family. He is now immortalized on a mountain he loved.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe lost a real B.C. hero in Tim Jones,\u201d Clark said. \u201cThe wilderness Tim Jones loved so much will bear his name forever.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mike Danks, who succeeded Jones as leader of the rescue team, called it an \u201cincredibly fitting tribute.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was a mentor to me and to so many others on our team. He took us from a two-car garage to a state-of-the-art rescue base. Renaming the peak keeps Tim\u2019s legacy alive.<\/p>\n

The peak is\u00a0known as Second Pump Peak, although that name was never officially adopted. The 1,425-metre peak is within the boundaries of Mount Seymour Provincial Park.<\/p>\n

Tim Jones was an advanced life support paramedic and unit chief with the B.C. Ambulance Service\u00a0and team leader with the volunteer North Shore Rescue for many years.<\/p>\n

Born in Edmonton, his family moved to North Vancouver when he was six years old. He spent the rest of his childhood exploring the local mountains.<\/p>\n

Jones, the 57-year-old leader, face and voice of the 40-member North Shore Rescue \u2014 among the busiest such teams in Canada \u2014 died on his way down from the team\u2019s\u00a0cabin on Mount Seymour. Jones was walking with Taylor, who tried to resuscitate him, and paramedics, firefighters and police were also unable to revive him. Jones was later pronounced dead at Lions Gate Hospital.<\/p>\n

Jones was widely respected for the many contributions he made to the volunteer component of search and rescue activities and to outdoor safety projects and programs in B.C.<\/p>\n

He\u00a0was instrumental in helping North Shore Rescue become the first search and rescue team in B.C. to adopt\u00a0helicopter longline rescue techniques.<\/p>\n

In 2014, the federal government recognized Jones by establishing a national search and rescue tax credit in his name.<\/p>\n

In recognition of his pioneering work, Jones was presented with the Order of British Columbia, a Queens Diamond Jubilee Medal and an honorary doctorate from Capilano University.<\/p>\n

\u201cMoms, dads, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters are alive today because of Tim\u2019s selflessness and dedication,\u201d Clark said.<\/p>\n

North Vancouver-Seymour MLA Jane Thornthwaite said Jones was a friend who she misses every day. \u201cTim Jones\u2019s legacy on the North Shore and in British Columbia is legendary and I am proud to stand with his family and give him this honour.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gilles Valade, executive director of Avalanche Canada, said Jones \u201cdedicated his life to public service and to safeguarding the lives of people venturing into the mountains that he knew so well.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019re so thankful for this recognition. Our family will hike and ski-tour to Tim Jones Peak regularly\u2026 and be reminded of how lucky we were to spend part of our lives with such a caring, compassionate and adventurous father.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[28,40,343,27,345,344,319],"class_list":["post-850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-neighbourhood-stories","tag-north-shore-search-and-rescue","tag-north-vancouver","tag-nssr","tag-tim-jones","tag-tim-jones-peak","tag-time-jones-memorial-peak","tag-west-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbrownrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbrownrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbrownrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbrownrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbrownrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbrownrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":854,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbrownrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions\/854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbrownrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbrownrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbrownrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbrownrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}