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The Philippine Consulate General
The Philippine Consulate in Vancouver was established in May 1956, the very first Philippine foreign service post in Canada, with Consul Gautier F. Bisnar as Head of Post. The Consulate in Vancouver remained as the Philippines’ lone diplomatic and consular office covering the whole of Canada until the establishment of the Philippine Embassy in Ottawa in 1971. It was upgraded to a Consulate General on 24 August 1962. Hon. Francisco O. Oira served as the first Consul General from 17 December 1962 until 03 August 1968.
Consul General Oira was succeeded by the following Consuls General:
Hon. Gauttier F. Bisnar – 02 December 1968 – May 1971
Hon. Jose Teodoro, Jr. – 01 June 1971 – 04 July 1975
Hon. Vicente Romero – 07 January 1976 – 15 August 1984
Hon. Luz del Mundo – 1984 – 1988
Hon. Rufino Martinez – 18 July 1988 – May 1990
Hon. Eufronia M. Recaido – 07 May 1990 – June 1992
Hon. Lourdes G. Morales – 24 June 1992 – 02 July 1998
Hon. Zenaida T. Rabago – 18 July 1999 – 21 August 2005
Hon. Minerva Jean A. Falcon- 15 October 2005 – 10 March 2007
Hon. Ruth Morales Prado – 24 June 2007 – 2010
Hon. Jose A.P. Ampeso – 16 June 2011 – 30 September 2013
Hon. Neil Frank R. Ferrer – 09 October 2013 – 15 June 2018
Hon. Maria Andrelita S Austria – 16 June 2018 – 3 March 2023
Hon. Arlene T. Magno – 27 March 2023 – 30 September 2024
The Consulate General in Vancouver commemorated its 60th anniversary of establishment on 21 May 2016.
The Consulate General has jurisdiction over British Columbia, Yukon and Northwest Territories.
The Consulate General moved to its current address at Suite 660, 999 Canada Place, Vancouver in August 2014 after fifteen years of holding an office space on the 14th floor of the Pacific Centre, 700 West Pender Street, Vancouver.
Presently, the Consulate General’s officers are:
Consul General Gina A. Jamoralin
Ambassador Gina Alagon Jamoralin, Ph.D, MBA, MPA is a Philippine career diplomat holding the rank of Chief of Mission, Class I in the Philippine foreign service. She joined the service in 1992 and has served in various capacities in the Home Office and several Philippine foreign service posts.
She is currently the Philippine Consul General in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada since November 17, 2024.
As Ambassador to Indonesia she spearheaded the activities for the 75th anniversary of PH-ID relations through a cultural concert featuring Filipino and Indonesian artists last 10 November 2024; organized a lecture on maritime culture by Prof. Ambeth Ocampo; organized a lecture on the West Philippine Sea by former SC Justice Antonio Carpio before students of Bintang Nusantara University (BINUS) and the Maritime Museum in Jakarta; organized PH food festival featuring Chef Pendatun to promote halal cuisine of Mindanao in Jakarta and North Sulawesi; and welcomed the visits of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and First Lady to attend the two (2) ASEAN summits held in May and September 2023 in Indonesia, and again on October 20, 2024 to attend the inauguration of the Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto. Ambassador Jamoralin also helped organize the visits of President Joko Widodo to Manila on 9-10 January
2024 and the visit of then president-elect Prabowo to Manila on 21 September 2024. Ambassador Jamoralin was also deeply involved in the diplomatic efforts to resolve the case of the long-time Filipino prisoner Mary Jane Veloso in Indonesia.
Ambassador Jamoralin was also honored with plaques of appreciation by the Hawaii State Legislature and Mayor of Honolulu in recognition of her contribution in spearheading in passing the “Sakada Day” bill by the Hawaii State Legislature which was signed into law on April 9, 2015 by the Governor of Hawaii David Ige by declaring December 20 of each year as “Sakada Day” to honor the arrival of the first Filipino plantation workers or sakadas in Hawaii on December 20, 1906.
In the Department of Foreign Affairs’ (DFA) Home Office, she served as the Assistant Secretary of the Office of International Economic Relations (OIER), Assistant Secretary of the Office of American Affairs (OAA), Director of the Office of United Nations and International Organizations (UNIO), and Principal Assistant then Special Assistant at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) National Secretariat from 1992 to 1996.
Dr. Jamoralin obtained her doctorate degree in Economics at the University of Santo Tomas. She earned her Master of Business Administration at the McGill University in Tokyo, Japan and her Master of Public Administration as well as a Bachelor’s degree in Economics at the University of the Philippines. She also completed diploma courses in International Relations, Diplomacy, International Trade Law and International Security in The Hague, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo and Honolulu, respectively. She also took law studies in the Philippines up to the third year level.
Deputy Consul General Paul Vincent L. Uy
Deputy Consul General Paul Vincent L. Uy has been serving the Department of Foreign Affairs for 30 years in various capacities. His previous foreign assignments include Germany, Hungary, Qatar, Vietnam, and Chile.
He has a Master’s degree in Foreign Policy (with distinction graduate) from the Universidad de Santiago de Chile. He also earned a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science (cum laude graduate) from the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City.
Consul André Peter C. Estanislao, MBA, MAPsy, RPsy
Consul André Peter C. Estanislao is currently designated as Consul at the Philippine Consulate General in Vancouver, B.C., assuming his post in January 2026. He is a career Foreign Service Officer and a licensed psychologist, having passed the Board Licensure Examinations for Psychologists and Psychometricians in 2025.
His previous DFA assignments include Director of the Cultural Exchanges Division, Office of Cultural Diplomacy; Chief of Staff to the Director-General for Operations of the ASEAN 2026 National Organizing Council – Office of the President; Acting Director of Passport and Consular Records Divisions, Office of Consular Affairs, and postings as Consul in San Francisco, Vice Consul in Shanghai, and Third Secretary and Vice Consul in Paris.
Mr. Estanislao is a summa cum laude graduate of Middlebury College, Vermont (BA in Classical Studies and French) and holds an MBA from the Philippine Christian University-Dasmariñas Campus and a Master’s in Psychology (Highest Honors) from Southville International School and Colleges.
Vice Consul Marco Frederick B. Harder
Marco Harder is a career Foreign Service Officer at the Department of Foreign Affairs. Vancouver is his first foreign assignment.
In the Home Office, he has served in the Office of the Undersecretary for Administration and the Human Resources Management Office.
Prior to joining the Foreign Service, he was a human resources and management consulting professional for sixteen (16) years. He has worked in these domains in several industries such as IT-BPM, Financial Services, Telecommunications, and Building Materials.
Vice Consul Harder holds a bachelor’s degree in Speech Communication from the University of the Philippines in Diliman.