THE ADVOCATE 273
VOL. 80 PART 2 MARCH 2022
NEW MASTER
By R.C. Tino Bella
The Honourable Master Kimberley Robertson
Kimberley Robertson was raised in Kitimat. Although
she lived there until she was 16, she knew by
the age of 14 that her life would take her out of the
small town, and she set her mind to achieving that
goal. Unbeknownst to her parents, Kim accelerated
her high school education by taking advanced and
online courses, graduated one year early and was
accepted at the University of Victoria at 16. To her chagrin, her parents were
concerned about their teenage daughter living on her own at university, so
rather than attending UVic, Kim began her post-secondary studies at the
University of Windsor, the only university in a town with family with whom
she could live while she pursued her undergraduate degree, but without the
mountains and ocean, which she missed.
Kim has always been resourceful. To fund her tuition and living expenses
while attending the University of Windsor, she returned to Kitimat each
summer to work in the local pulp mill. Children of mill employees were
paid union wages for summer employment, and the mill paid their tuition.
After graduating from the University of Windsor with a bachelor of arts
degree, majoring in English, Kim moved to Vancouver, thereby accomplishing
her goal of living near the ocean and mountains. She pursued her love
of the ocean by becoming a dive master, logging over 1,000 dives since then
in locations around the world, and by teaching others. She also applied to
study as a paralegal at Capilano College. While waiting for acceptance to
that program, Kim had a few interesting jobs, including as a private investigator.
This sounded very sexy to Kim, but she quickly realized she was not
cut out for that particular line of work, having once walked into a telephone
pole while following a suspect and, on another occasion, fallen down a