Updated 2023-09-13, removing Jaymee Sidel from the list of umpires since she is no longer a member of our club.
Updated 2023-04-28, removing umpires Harnam Grewal and Louise Mason who have both retired as umpires this year after many years of service to the sport.
Club Umpires
Becoming an Umpire
Notes on Measuring for Umpires
Becoming an Umpire
Interested in becoming an umpire?
Bowls BC publishes details about Umpires courses from time to time.
As yet, we have no information about any umpire courses in the upcoming 2024 season. Any member interested in taking an umpiring course, please contact David Mathie of Juan de Fuca LBC at davidmathie@shaw.ca
Notes on Measuring for Umpires
Bob Akins
The nine pages of notes shown below were copied from a document prepared in 1999 by the late Bob Akins, an umpire and long-time member of the Oak Bay club. Bob was a surveyor by profession and naturally interested in precise measurement. He bowled into his nineties!
Faith Magwood found the document in 2018 and has given it to the club. It is shown online here for easy reference.
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