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OCTOBER 2016
MACAULAY CONTINUES NOTARY LEGACY Tony MacAulay takes over the reins of McLane & MacAulay Notary Corp
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ARKSVILLE - The story of Parksville based McLane & MacAulay Notary Corp office is one of stability, trust, and friendship. It’s also a story of a new owner, of long-term professional employees and of a continuing legacy of community trust and confidence. Originally launched by Dudley Wickett, the company was sold to Daryl McLane in 1986 who then served clients in Parksville and area for the next thirty years. It was several years ago (ca. 2012) that McLane approached Roland Wickett, the son of Dudley, to ask for ideas as to who might be a good fit as his successor. Besides the professional qualifications required, McLane was looking for someone who would live out the commitment and dedication his clients have come to expect and enjoy. Without hesitation, Roland recommended approaching Tony MacAulay. One of the major questions to be addressed before making a final decision, however, was McLane’s concern that any new owner would be willing to stick
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“Just taking care of peoples’ questions and issues and helping them through life is what intrigued me.” ANTHONY (TONY) MACAULAY
Daryl McLane (L) and Tony MacAulay (R) in front of company logo
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with the business even if other opportunities presented themselves; willingness to put down roots on Vancouver Island was also important to McLane. Those concerns were quickly addressed and resolved. “He was young and smart and he had the ambition to become successful. Also, he looked at Parksville and saw that it was a nice place to raise his family. I was pleased to meet him,” McLane told Business Examiner Vancouver Island. MacAulay, his wife and son (“my second son was born here, on Vancouver Island, in Nanaimo in the Spring of 2015”, MacAulay noted) were living in the Lower Mainland at the time but a call to move to Vancouver Island was a welcome one. His wife already had roots in the Parksville community and he was ready and happy to leave the crowds and traffic of the Fraser Valley life. Things were looking positive for both McLane and
MacAulay. It took little time before MacAulay accepted the offer with enthusiasm but also with the realization that this would entail a major transition for him and for his family. Following his formal acceptance of McLane’s offer, the hard work began, beginning with the gruelling regime of returning to school to achieve the academic qualifications needed for this major shift in his life’s work. Though years of education were just the beginning, MacAulay faced them with enthusiasm. “I hadn’t been thinking about a change [of career] because I was satisfied with what I was doing; when the invitation came, however, it opened new doors of opportunity,” MacAulay said. New doors, new opportunities and a dramatic change of career perfectly described the next several years. Prior to returning to school to prepare himself for his new profession as a notary public
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and his new position as a business owner, MacAulay was employed at a dispatch manager at a trucking company in the Lower Mainland, he’d worked on a commercial fishing boat and at a sawmill as well at several other positions in the timber industry. Now, instead of the great outdoors, he was seated in a classroom. “Although I hadn’t anticipated the change, I could see myself in the legal field. Just taking care of peoples’ questions and issues and helping them through life is what intrigued me,” he continued. The transition wasn’t quick or simple, though. At MacAulay’s request, McLane’s delayed his retirement by a year in order to allow MacAulay to earn his acceptance into the Society of Notaries Public of B.C. and to complete his Master’s of Applied Legal Studies from Simon Fraser University. Throughout that time, he benefited from McLane’s mentorship and the support of the company’s
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