FROM LINDON COLLARD TOTAL RECALL: THE TRUTH ABOUT MY ONLY IN PERSON CONTACTS WITH THE VANCOUVER POLICE BETWEEN 1974 AND 1979, ALL WERE AT AMJ.

 

AT ADVANCED METHOD JEWELRY MANUFACTURING THE SHOP POLICY WAS TO BE NICE AND TECHNICALLY HELPFUL TO EACH AND EVERY CUSTOMER.

I had an AAA Industrial Credit Rating with the Bank of Nova Scotia.

I had letters from Immigration and Manpower Canada which described my training of an otherwise unemployable woman with disfiguring facial injury. She achieved permanent employment as the most expert Wax Impression producer whom the large manufacturer who hired her had ever encountered. I had cast 50,000 pieces of jewelry at Advanced Method. I sold it in 1978 and bought this property at Otter Point one year later.

Shortly after August of 1979 I began to work on the unfinished and looted house and I did not really leave the house except to get building materials, varnish and paint. I worked on the house every day until June 20 1980. Somehow bad stories began to circulate about me without my ever knowing any of the local residents. 

That is far enough with this line of commentary. This Post is about my actual relationship with the only Police I had ever talked to after May of 1974 when the factory was established after I had been almost entirely at home for 4 years.

The Vancouver Police Robbery Squad came to AMJ asking about whether someone could have made a stolen chain he had. I told them to get a loupe and look at the trademarks and that the chain was made on machines only run in Italy.

Full disclosure: The owner of the building where I had the factory called the Police. I  had struck the wall made of`Hooper Plywood, thin fiberboard, which was installed over the real walls, and it cracked. I said I would fix it. Police left and I glued up the cracks and pulled and pushed the paneling back into place.

WHEN A VANCOUVER POLICEMAN BECAME A DETECTIVE HE WANTED A REAL GOLD BADGE. I TOLD HIM THAT IF HE WENT TO THE BANK AND BOUGHT A PURE GOLD INGOT I COULD LAWFULLY RECAST THE INGOT AS THE BADGE HE WANTED. I MADE A RUBBER MOLD OF HIS BADGE AND INJECTED WAX AND CAST IT.

I CHARGED FOR FACTORY SERVICE  AND GAVE HIM THE MOLD. I SAID YOU ARE A POLICE OFFICER AND YOU CANNOT LET ANYONE ELSE HAVE YOUR BADGE MOLD WITHOUT YOUR BEING THERE. YOU CAN BUY WAX NUMBERS I TOLD HIM, AND THEY CAN REPLACE YOUR NUMBERS SO AS MANY OFFICERS AS SO WISH TO CAN HAVE BADGES CAST IN ANY LAWFULLY USED AND POSSESSED METAL. ANY  UNLICENSED CASTER COULD CLEAN AND MELT BROKEN OR UNWANTED JEWELRY AND LAWFULLY CAST A BADGE.  

How on Earth can the RCMP listen to gossip that is intended to damage me and disparage my reputation without contacting me or anyone in Manpower and Immigration Canada or at the Bank of Nova Scotia or in the Vancouver PD?