Ontario Heritage Conference – Presenters

Lloyd Alter

Lloyd Alter has practiced as an architect and a real estate developer in Toronto. He is an adjunct professor at Ryerson University School of Interior Design and is senior writer for the Discovery Network websites TreeHugger and Planet Green. He is entering his second year as President of the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario.

Bill Beaton

Bill Beaton founded Loyalist Timber Framing in 1999 in order to pursue his passion for post and beam construction which he studied since the late 80’s. As the demand for new timber frame construction has increased, so too have calls for older existing structures. This desire for heritage log and timber frame structures compliments Bill’s interest in the use of traditional building techniques.

James Brown

See Kim Storey bio

Dr. John C. Carter (MCL)

John Carter is an advisor to the Ontario Ministry of Culture. He has a longtime interest in barns, rural schoolhouses and the architecture of the Talbot Trail. He received a B.A. in History and MA in Native Studies from the University of Waterloo followed by a Bachelor of Education in Library and History at University of Western Ontario. He completed his Doctorate in Museum Studies at University of Leicester, in England. John’s diverse career has seen him serve as Curator of the John R. Park Homestead Museum in Essex County Ontario; as a Visiting Fellow at two Australian universities while researching the history of Canadian “Patriots”; and as the guest editor of the Journal of the Ontario Historical Society “Ontario History”.

Tim Compeau

Tim Compeau is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Western Ontario, studying the United Empire Loyalists. He is Consulting Curator for the Arthur Child Heritage Museum and Gananoque Museums Collection. Tim has an MA in Public History from UWO and specialised in the use of digital media to reach a non-academic audience. Interested in the preservation of local history, Tim has worked with a number of small museums and historical societies. In 2006-07 he worked with the Arthur Child Heritage Museum of the 1000 Islands, where he directed the Gananoque Museum Restoration Project, instituted a state-of-the-art digital cataloguing system and was closely involved in the exhibition Gananoque in the Gilded Age: 1863 – 1890. You can see some of Tim’s work from the Restoration Project at collectionresurrection.blogspot.com.

Mark Davidson

Mark Davidson is owner/operator of Whippletree Timberframing near Peterborough. Timberframing is an ancient woodworking craft using large timbers fitted together and fastened with wooden peg. Mark and his team design, cut and raise new timber frames, repair historic Ontario barns and host traditional carpentry classes either at their place or at yours. Their focus is on traditional joinery techniques which will enhance buildings and inspire people for generations to come. http://www.wpltree.ca/

Devon Elliott

Devon Elliott is a Ph.D. candidate of history at the University of Western Ontario. He worked at the Museum of Ontario Archaeology before completing his MA in Public History. Devon currently works with the Lab for Humanistic Fabrication where he experiments with digital technologies as tools for his research into the history of stage magic.

Devon’s blog is located at: http://devonelliott.blogspot.com
Some of Devon’s research can be seen here: http://digitalhistory.wikispot.org/Lab_for_Humanistic_Fabrication

Sean Fraser – BA, BES, MEDS, MCAHP

Sean is Manager of the Ontario National Trust’s Acquisitions and Conservation Services Unit which integrates the Trust’s natural, cultural and archaeological heritage portfolios and programmes. Sean is responsible for the design and supervision of the Trust’s Ontario Places of Worship project launched in September 2009. He also was largely responsible for putting together the strong Places of Worship segment of this conference.

Sean has worked across Canada and internationally in the field of cultural heritage conservation for 20 years. He has undergraduate degrees in Architectural History / Classical Archaeology from the University of British Columbia and Architectural Design and a Masters Degree in Conservation of the Built Environment from Dalhousie University. Sean has worked for the US National Parks Service’s Historic American Engineering Record, practiced as an independent consultant and has been an associate for Commonwealth Resource Management Limited, a Preservation Officer and Heritage Planner for the City of Toronto. He is a former Board member of the Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals (CAHP) and the Association for Preservation Technology International (APTI).

Jim Gilbert

Jim is a retired teacher and school administrator from Chatham-Kent who has been active in public history for the past 30 years. Currently his activities are focused around running Faire Tyme Toys, an historical toy company which takes him all around Eastern North America. Jim has written a number of local history books and contributes weekly heritage columns to two local newspapers. Jim’s tours of Chatham-Kent with a focus on ghosts, on the Thames River and on the War of 1812 are always informed and amusing.

Lisa Gilbert

Lisa is Co-Chair of the 2010 Ontario Heritage Conference and our liaison to Community Heritage Ontario. She is a retired teacher who has been involved with local history in Chatham-Kent for all of her life. She currently chairs the Chatham-Kent Heritage Committee and the Friends of the Tecumseh Monument. She creates historical clothing for her business Faire Tyme Fashions and helps her husband Jim in his various activities.

Laurence Grant

Laurence Grant works as an historian for the North America Railway Hall of Fame and for its major restoration project, the Canada Southern Station, and the Elgin County Railway Museum. He holds a B.A. in anthropology from the University of Toronto and an M.A. in the same discipline from Carleton University. He is Treasurer and one of the founders of the ACO St. Thomas-Elgin Branch, and has worked at various national historic sites and museums over the past 30 years.

Beth Hanna – facilitator/moderator

Beth Hanna is the Ontario Heritage Trust’s Director of Heritage Programs and Operations. She has worked in heritage, arts and culture management for more than twenty-five years. She leads the team responsible for the acquisition and stewardship of the Trust’s natural and cultural heritage trust properties, conservation easements, cultural collections, public education programs, advocacy and community development initiatives.

Beth has served on advisory committees for the Ministries of Culture, Health Promotion and Natural Resources. She works closely with other levels of government, First Nations and a broad range of community groups and conservation organizations.

Chris Harvey

Chris Harvey joined the North America Railway Hall of Fame as Executive Director in 2007 where he has worked to restore the Canada Southern Railway Station and to fulfill the organisation’s vision to recognise, honour, and preserve our railway heritage. He is a graduate of the University of Windsor with a B.A. in history. He began his professional career in 1995 with Community Living Chatham-Kent as Manager of Fund Development and Community Relations where he was involved in a number of projects that raised money and awareness to support people who have intellectual disabilities.

Candace Iron

Candace Iron, who was born and grew up in Chatham, is a PhD Candidate in the Division of Humanities at York University. Her primary interest is 19th-century religious architecture in Canada and its heritage. Candace has published several articles which focus on Ontario architectural history and has presented at more than 15 national and international conferences. Candace travels throughout Canada studying architecture and its relationship with Canadian cultural history. Her current research focuses on the Ontario architecture of Henry Langley (1826-1907) and his mentor, William Hay (1818-1888).

Paul S. King, Moderator

Paul King has been President of Community Heritage Ontario (CHO) since 2004. His interest in built heritage began when he worked as a summer student at Fort Henry in Kingston, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. He has also been a member of the St. Mary’s municipal heritage committee for over 10 years. Paul is a Partner and practice group leader in the Toronto Real Estate Department of Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, one of Canada’s largest law firms with offices in throughout Canada and abroad.

James Knight M.Sc.F., P.Eng

James Knight is a professional engineer who specialises in wood structures and wood as an engineering material. He conducts analysis and investigations into wood structures; determination of species and grade; assessment of decay, insect damage, chemical deterioration, etc. His work also determines allowable stresses for species, grades and connectors not in the building code. James is a member of the Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals. His firm James Know & Associates is in St. George, Ontario.

James Lindberg

James Lindberg is Director of Preservation Initiatives in the Mountains/Plains Office of the American National Trust for Historic Preservation where he is involved in their wide-ranging programmes. These include heritage-based rural development, Main Street Revitalisation, heritage tourism, Rural Heritage Collaboratives, Prairie Churches of North Dakota and the BARN AGAIN! Programme. The organisation’s mission is in partnership with local, state and national organizations to help rural communities protect historic places and implement sustainable, heritage-based development strategies which will help build more sustainable local economies and increases quality of life.

Mike Marcolongo

Mike Marcolongo is an economic developer with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) where he helps communities analyze their downtown economies using market analysis tools. Mike earned his Main Street Manager Certification (CMSM) through the U.S. Main Street Centre at the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Mike has restored a number of historic buildings including a circa 1860 Dutch-Pennsylvania bank barn, an 1850’s English barn and his own 1921 Arts & Crafts home.

Glenn Miller, Moderator

Glenn Miller was the Team Leader of the Innovation Team tasked by OMAFRA in 2006 to explore ways to restore and reintegrate the Canada Southern Railway building in St. Thomas into a plan for revitalisation of the downtown. He is Director, Education & Research of the Canadian Urban Institute in Toronto.

Dr. Gordon Nelson

Gordon Nelson is an acclaimed ecologist, geographer, planner and policy maker. He retired from a 37 year distinguished academic career during which he developed innovative ideas on land use history and landscape change in Canada. As a member of the Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas he helped develop improved planning and management of parks and protected areas. Gordon developed the ABC resources appraisal methods, utilizing information about abiotic, biotic and cultural environmental elements to guide policy decision making. Gordon is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Waterloo University. His achievements have been recognised with numerous awards including the Massey Medal of the Royal Canadian Geographic Society. He has served as Chair Of Carolinian Canada Coalition since 2005. His latest book is Places, Linking Nature, Culture and Planning.

Bryan and Shannon Prince

Bryan and Shannon Prince are from the historic Canadian Elgin Settlement and Buxton Mission which was a haven for fugitive slaves prior to the American Civil War. They are both active with the Buxton National Historic Site & Museum where Shannon is Curator and Bryan is an Historian and long-time Board member.

Both are members of several organisations in Canada and the United States that research and promote the North American story of the Underground Railroad. Bryan is the author of many works on the subject including the book “I Came As A Stranger: The Underground Railroad” and television documentary “A Thousand Miles to Freedom”. Shannon is also a well-known historical Storyteller, speaker and participant in historical re-enactments. They have lectured and performed throughout Canada and the United States.

Bryan and Shannon have been married for thirty one years and, along with their family of four children, continue to farm in the area where their ancestors settled several generations ago.

Dan Reaume

Dan Reaume has been a professional photographer since 1980. He has run his own business since 1989, concentrating on architectural, food, industrial and product photography.

Dan works with both a 4×5 view camera and a professional digital camera sometimes using Photo Shop to do retouching to enhance the photos. Dan emphasised that lighting and composition are the two most important elements of photography. For architectural exteriors natural lighting should accent the building’s best features while professionally staged lighting brings out interiors’ details.

Erin Semande, MA, CARP

Erin Semande holds an undergraduate degree in History from the University of Windsor and a Master of Arts in Public History from the University of Western Ontario. As a researcher at the Ontario Heritage Trust, Erin conducts property specific heritage investigations, as well as thematic research in support of the Historic Places Initiative, cultural property acquisition and Ontario’s Places of Worship Project. She is well versed in the history of faith in Ontario and has an interest in the social memory of heritage sites. In addition to writing for the Trust’s publication Heritage Matters, Erin has organised and coordinated the site recording of over 700 religious heritage sites all across the province. Erin has worked at Windsor’ Community Museum and Banting House National Historic Site. She was a Parks Canada intern responsible for planning and outreach initiatives for the Rideau Canal National Historic Site and the co-coordinator of the National Historic Sites Alliance for Ontario. She is a member of the Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals in the category of Historian.

Barry Stephenson

Barry Stephenson teaches at Wilfrid Laurier University in the Religion and Culture Department. He also conducts research on ritual, religion and literature, and over the years has taught a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses. He considers that sites like Highgate United Church would make for a great documentary film. In collaboration with Dr. Ronald Grimes, the colleagues use a combination of ethnographic, visual, and historical methods to examine the dynamic of “abandonment” of sacred sites, explore the process of what happens to historic places of worship during moments of crisis and change – a process which offers valuable insight into the religious dynamics of contemporary society.

Peter Stewart, B.Arch., OAA, MRAIC

Peter Stewart is a heritage architect with George Robb Architect of Toronto. His conservation experience dates from an award-winning 1984 restoration of a stone cottage in Cambridge for a local insurance company. His services have included building condition reports, feasibility analyses, compliance retro-fit studies and design solutions for restoration and adaptive re-use programmes. Recent projects include: Duff Baby House, Sandwich; Knox Presbyterian Church, Toronto; Our Lady of the Rosary Church, Windsor; Coach House, Oakville Museum; La Maison Francois Baby, Windsor; Lincoln County Courthouse, St. Catharines. Peter is a member of the Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals.

Alysson Storey

Alysson Storey is Manager, Culture and Special Events for the Municipality of Chatham-Kent where she is responsible for managing all municipal cultural facilities and staff as well as facilitating the municipality’s ongoing cultural planning process.

Alysson graduated from Queen’s University with a double major in Art History and History and has spent the majority of her career in the cultural sector in Canada and abroad.

She founded the Joseph Storey Architectural Conservancy to preserve, protect and promote the impressive collection of mid-century modern architecture designed by her grandfather.

Kim Storey

Kim Storey and James Brown are founding partners in the office of Brown and Storey Architects Inc. They have been involved in local and international design projects as architects and urban designers for thirty years. The Brown and Storey practice focuses on a wide range of architectural and urban design projects that look at precincts of cities in both Southwestern Ontario and the greater Toronto region.

Both graduates of the University of Toronto, Kim and James have taught Architecture and Urban Design studios at the School of Architecture, Landscape and Urban Design in Toronto, the University of Waterloo and at Ryerson University. Their work has received awards from Progressive Architecture magazine, Places magazine, City of Toronto Urban Design Awards, Canadian Architect magazine, the Design Exchange and the Ontario Association of Architects.

Kim and James have recently opened an office in Chatham-Kent at the recently renovated Armoury.

www.brownandstorey.com

Professor Dr. Malcolm Thurlby, FSA

Malcolm Thurlby is an internationally renowned specialist in medieval art and architecture and Canadian architectural history. He teaches art and architectural history at York University, Toronto. He was born in London, England, and educated at the University of East Anglia where he received his PhD in 1976, with a dissertation on Sculpture in England 1140-1250. He is author of two books and over 150 articles on aspects of medieval architecture and sculpture, and Canadian heritage buildings. The Herefordshire School of Romanesque Sculpture (Logaston Press 1999), is now in its fifth printing. Malcolm is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. His passion for architecture extends to fine food and wine, soccer, the Muppets, and driving his wife’s BMW Z3.

Edward Vandermaarel

Ed J. Vandermaarel is a principal architect and heritage consultant for SJMA Vision Based Architectural Solutions. He is a graduate of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Syllabus Programme, Vancouver, British Columbia (RAIC) and a Registered Architect with the Ontario Association of Architects. Ed has over 22 years experience in the field. His focus is heritage restoration and preservation.

Mark Warrack

Mark Warrack recently joined the Ontario Heritage Trust as Manager, Special Projects responsible for the development of a series of province-wide cultural heritage conservation projects. Previously, he held the position of Senior Heritage Coordinator, City of Mississauga where he provided a wide variety of municipal heritage planning, including museum development, historic site interpretation, exhibits, heritage site recognition, development of heritage planning policy in the Official Plan, comment and direction on planning applications, liaison and advisor to the City’s municipal heritage advisory committee and Council, liaison to the Mississauga Heritage Foundation, responsible for the development of the City’s Heritage Register, including an extensive study and inventory of cultural landscapes. Mark also provided comment and direction to the City on archaeological matters. Prior to working in Mississauga, Mark was the Curator/Director of the Enoch Turner Schoolhouse, now a heritage site under the Ontario Heritage Trust. Mark is on the Board of Directors, Heritage Toronto and Chair of the Heritage Conservation Committee.

James W. S. Young, PhD

Jim is President of Jim Young Atmospheric Services Inc., affiliated with the global environmental firm SENES Consultants Limited, where he has worked on numerous international air quality projects since 1990. He also served as Director General, Research at the Atmospheric Environment Service of Environment Canada for over 12 years and was Chief of the Air Quality Section for the Province of New Brunswick. Jim’s global experience spans issues from climate change and meteorology to acid rain and pollution abatement from local to global scales. He served as the Canadian Co-Chair of the Air Quality Advisory Board, International Joint Commission from 1985-1997 and is a Past President of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society.

Penny Young

Penny Young is a Heritage Planner in the Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Culture Services Unit where she reviews land use planning applications and provides technical advice and training on cultural heritage and archaeological resource planning matters. She has been involved in archaeology and cultural heritage conservation employed with government ministries, local historical sites and archaeological consulting firms in Ontario, Canada, Mexico and in England since 1986. From 1999-2008, she was a Regional Archaeologist at the Ontario Ministry of Transportation. From 1994-99, she worked at the Ontario Ministry of Culture managing the registered archaeological sites database. Her MA and BA were from McMaster University, in Hamilton, Ontario.