About Us

About Maxine

Principal Maxine Demmler is a daughter who has been through the distant-parents situation. She is married with two children and three grandchildren.

Maxine worked 14 years for the University of Toronto library where she developed the research skills necessary to find the best solutions to problems.

Maxine volunteers with Meals on Wheels, the Oak Bay Volunteer Services Society, and is on the Board of Trustees of the Family Caregivers' Network Society.

How Dial-A-Daughter was born

I always wanted to live close enough to my parents to be able to have lunch with them once a week, and to provide immediate support and assistance as needed.

Instead I lived far away, and spent my annual vacations trying to accomplish for them numerous tasks that needed onsite attention. Boarding the plane to return home each year was an occasion filled with anxiety as I wondered what would occur in the next 12 months for which I would not be close enough to help.

My frustration at this situation grew with each passing year until I finally moved west. I realized that there must be other people across Canada in similar situations with parents in Victoria. Thus Dial-A-Daughter was born!

How to contact us

Call or send us a note for more information. We will be pleased to review your particular situation, then suggest a personalized service package that will address your concerns.

Maxine Demmler
Toll free: 1.877.210.8844 or 1.250.381.5599 (please remember that we are on Pacific time)

E-mail: info@dialadaughter.ca
Web site: www.dialadaughter.ca

* Photo credit: Debra Brash, Times Colonist