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The order was issued Nov. 26, the same day that land titles show Tollstam completed a purchase of a beachfront mansion in West Vancouver. One notable thing about Tollstam’s November purchase of the Bellevue Avenue residence was that, according to land titles, he and his co-purchaser bought the $15,888,888-million property without a mortgage.

At the time of the purchase, Tollstam was only a few months into retirement after 37 years of service to the City of North Vancouver. For more than two decades, Tollstam was the North Van city manager, the most senior bureaucrat for the municipality of 53,000 people, earning as much as $310,000 a year, plus expenses.

When The Vancouver Sun reached Tollstam by phone Thursday and asked about the securities commission investigation, he replied: “You know, I’m not going to comment on that, thank you very much.”

He hung up and did not return a voice message on Friday.

The commission’s November notice referred to the group of 51 respondents collectively as the “BridgeMark Group,” after BridgeMark Financial Group. BridgeMark’s sole director, Anthony Kevin Jackson, is the husband of Tollstam’s daughter, West Vancouver realtor Lisa Jackson.

Property records list “Lisa Michelle Jackson, realtor/business woman,” as the co-owner of the $15.8-million West Van mansion purchased in November, along with “Albert Kenneth Tollstam, chartered accountant.”

Most of the respondents in the case are in Metro Vancouver, including several on the North Shore, although some members of the group have addresses in the Cayman Islands, Marshall Islands, Australia, Hong Kong, the Czech Republic and Switzerland.