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8 VOL. 72 PART 1 JANUARY <strong>2014</strong> THE ADVOCATE Left to Right: Business Valuations Personal Injury Claims Economic Loss Claims Breach of contract Business Insurance Claims Business interruption Forensic Accounting Suite 1100 – 1177 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC, V6E 4T5
THE ADVOCATE VOL. 72 PART 1 JANUARY <strong>2014</strong> 9 ENTRE NOUS We recently had occasion to stumble upon a personal reference letter for a Scottish relative written on March 3, 1931, when he was a 25-year-old merchant seaman looking for work in Glasgow. A highland minister of the Church of Scotland wrote: I have known the bearer … and the family to which he belongs, very closely, for the last nine years; and I have great pleasure in certifying that he is the son of most respectable parents, and that his character and conduct have always been in perfect keeping with his home up-bringing. He is thoroughly upright and honest; truthful and reliable; sober and correct in all his conduct; and irreproachable in every way. He will do his work faithfully, cheerfully and efficiently, and will try to please his masters and to improve himself. I have perfect confidence in recommending him for any post requiring intelligence, energy, tact and integrity. The carefully typed letter, now more than 80 years old, is yellowing at the edges, its folds sharpened by decades of being neatly pressed in a folder. It is charming in its directness and, somehow, despite its perhaps somewhat excessive veneration of the subject, manages to convey why it
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