Wednesday, April 29, 1992

Your business Is
our business
Jonathan Green
365-7266

SHREWD
' AT CRUDE

Vancouver-
based

International
Petroleum Corp.
is fast making a
reputation for
being able to
attract the big
boys of the oil
world as
partners.
Although a
relatively small
company with a
market
capitalization of
just $170 million,
IPC is working
with such giants
as Amoco, BHP,
Phillips and
Lasmo - from
Somalia to
Ethiopia to
Malaysia. Since
1984, more than
“S. 50 farm-out
transactions
have been
signed by IPC
involving 26 oil
and gas
companies as
partners.

TRADE

TALK

Chief negotiators
from Canada, the
United States
and Mexico
opened their
ninth meeting
Monday to thrash
out details of an
ambitious trade
pact that would
link their
countries in the
world’s largest
regional trading
bloc. A Canadian
official said “the
negotiations are
continuing at
quite a steady
pace and good
ress has
been made.” But
the official said
that negotiators
are still trying to

WorkRPLACE

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Findin
Marg Creegan
works to shed

some light on
a dark subject

Jonathan Green
NEWS REPORTER

Being the recipient of a
phone call at three in the
morning would probably annoy
most of us.

For Marg Creegan, it’s all in
a day’s (and night’s) work.

“You get the call, you've got to
go,” she. said. “They’re
depending on you to be there.

Since last June, Creegan has
been the city’s coroner, and
phone calls in the middle of the
night are all part of her job.

“It’s a 365 day-a-year, 24
hour-a-day job,” she said.

For the television trivia buff,
talk of a coroner might conjure
up thoughts of Jack Klugman in
his role as Quincy, M.E.

Creegan acknowledges that,
but says what she does and
what Klugman’s TV character
did are two totally different

S.

She said that in the U.S., a
medical examiner performs both
the autopsy to determine the
cause of death and. the
subsequent investigation.

“In Canada, we tend to
function with separate persons,
a pathologist and a coroner,”
she said.

A former RCMP constable,
Creegan says she didn’t grow up
with designs on being on a
coroner.

“I don’t think I was aware of
such a service until I entered
the force,” she said. -

Creegan left life as a Mountie
behind in 1990 to raise a family,
and was approached last year to
fill the retiring Paul Oglow’s
shoes.

She said her 10 years with
the RCMP were an asset in
taking the job.

“It gets you thinking along an
investigative line,” she said.
“That’s what a coroner is, an
investigator for the community.”

Working under the direction
of provincial chief coroner Vince
Cain, Creegan says she and all
other coroners in B.C. react
primarily to one type of death.

“If it’s sudden and
unexpected,” she said.

During the investigation
following a death, the coroner
deals with numerous outside

g Out How And Why

Like it or not, death is something we'll all have to deal with at least once in our lives. When that death is
considered suspicious, former RCMP officer Marg Creegan goes to work as Castlegar’s coroner.

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News photo by Jonathan Green

sources, including the police
and hospital.

“It’s a team effort is the best
way to sum it up,” she said.

From there, information is
assembled and a report is put
together, a process (reegan
says takes roughly a month.

“For an inquiry, about 30
days,” she said. “That gives you
a chance to get all your
information in and digest it.”

In 11 months on the job,
Creegan says she_ has
investigated about 40 deaths,

“yet no frequency pattern has
developed.

“It’s really irregular,” she
said. “It can be nothing or it
can be everything.”

Appointed by the lieutenant-
governor of B.C., there are
about 90-coroners in the
province.

To work in such a sensitive
field, Ed Hourigan says Cain’s
office looks for a specific type of
person when a coroner position
becomes available.

“We look for someone who is
open-minded, unbiased and has
a lot of compassion,” said the
deputy director of judicial
services for the province. “We're
like an ombudsman for the
dead.”

As someone who has seen
death through the eyes of two
different professions, Creegan
says what a coroner sees is no
different than what a Mountie
sees.

“You never get blase about
the death aspect of it,” she said.

Although attempts are made
to distance herself from the job,
Creegan says one part is hard to
leave behind at day’s end.

“The fact that some deaths

appear so senseless,” she said.

“That would apply to seat belts
and drinking and driving on a
large scale.”

And though automobile
deaths are just a small part of
her job, Creegan says they are
no easier to deal with when it
comes to initial communication
with the faimily. s

“(It’s hard) to make sense of it
for them when you don’t have
all the information,” she said.

Although trying to make
sense out of something
senseless may not be for
everyone, Creegan says the
people she deals with and the
fact that what she discovers
may save a future life make
coming to work worthwhile.

“Maybe you'll see something
that will make a difference.”

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