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Registration will be open for all delegates to pick up their registration and check into the conference. Open Wednesday through Saturday.

Wednesday October 16th, 1:00pm - 9:00pm & Thursday October 17th, 9:00am - 4:00pm

Presented by National Indigenous Residential School Museum of Canada, National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, and National Trust for Canada

Set at the site of the former Portage la Prairie Indian Residential School, Maamiikwendan aims to connect Indigenous groups and other organizations actively working to preserve Indigenous sites of conscience, and to open up participation to interested NGOs, faith groups, government representatives, and National Trust conference delegates. This event will create a space for dialogue, learning, and networking among groups who are doing similar work in their respective communities. Discussions will highlight challenges, solutions, cultural considerations, and best practices.

Research completed by the NCTR identifies sixteen (16) former Indian Residential Schools that are still standing (or partially standing). One key objective for Maamiikwendan will be to try to ensure that delegates from each of these schools are able to attend this event to share and discuss commemoration activities occurring at the community level including: repurposed buildings, endangered school sites, commemoration of cemeteries, and the links between Sanitoriums and Missing Children. This event addresses multiple Calls to Action issued by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: CTA 72 – National Residential School Death Register; CTA 73 Cemetery Locations: CTA 74-76 – Memorial Ceremonies and Commemoration; CTA 79 – National Commemoration of Residential School Sites.

Maamiikwendan will create the groundwork for an Indigenous network of groups working on commemorating and researching Indian Residential Schools and Cemeteries. It will strengthen community connections and accelerate dialogue, not only among community groups, but for the NCTR, National Trust, governments, church groups, and all others playing important roles in the TRC’s Calls to Action.

Wednesday October 16th, Bus Departs Fairmont Winnipeg at 11:30am and returns after the workshop
Thursday October 17th, Bus Departs Fairmont Winnipeg at 7:30am and returns after the workshop

Speakers and Final Agenda TBA

Presented in partnership with the Exchange District BIZ come explore the trendiest watering holes while learning about the untold history of Winnipeg on this tour. Housed in unique heritage buildings in the heart of Winnipeg’s original downtown, these breweries and lounges offer the best in cocktails, distilled spirits, and craft beer. You will get an in-depth tour of the area while learning about history of the Exchange district you won’t get anywhere else. At each stop, you'll learn about the history and redevelopment of these spaces.

The tour will include a drink at each of the three establishments.

Space is limited.

Tour will depart from the main lobby of the Fairmont Winnipeg at 8:00pm

Downtown Rising will draw on expertise and case examples from Winnipeg and across Canada, inspiring participants to imagine what is possible and arming them with creative solutions and best practices for downtown revitalization. The day will combine inspired plenary presentations with work in teams on the streets of downtown Winnipeg.

Purpose: To share knowledge, insights into trends, strategies and positive actions that are effective in sustaining Canada’s traditional downtown core areas, from large urban cities, to small towns.

• Leader:
• - Jim Mountain (Regeneration Associate, National Trust for Canada)
  
  8:00 - 9:00am: Sign in, refreshments, meet and greet
  9:00am: Welcomes and Introductions
  9:10 - 9:30am: National Trust Main Street/Downtown Regeneration Trends and Approaches
  9:30 - 10:45am: Adaptability, Resiliency and Managing Change - Lessons From Winnipeg’s Downtown BIZ Districts: Winnipeg Downtown BIZ, Exchange District, West End and Selkirk
  10:45 - 11:00am: Refreshments
  11:00 - 11:45am: Action on Main Streets – Towns and Amalgamated Municipalities working to sustain their historic core areas: Virden Manitoba, Saskatchewan’s THRIVE program, Cape Breton’s Sydney , Ontario Case Examples
  12:00 - 1:00pm: Working Lunch: Keynote Speaker to be confirmed
  1:00 - 1:45pm: Bringing a Design Approach To Downtowns.
  1:45 - 2:00pm: Design Charrette Introduction – Case Examples – The Exchange District - Assignment into Teams
  2:00 - 3:00pm: Walkabout to Design Charrette Assignments
  3:00 - 3:30pm: Reconvene, prepare presentations
  3:30 - 4:00pm: Present solutions to plenary
  4:00 - 4:15pm: Wrap up and Concluding Remarks
  4:15 - 5:00pm: Social networking exchange
  

(Presented by Faculty of Architecture, University of Manitoba) Coffee breaks and lunch included.

Winnipeg high school students will battle for adaptive reuse supremacy in this fun and illuminating multi-day workshop. Small student teams will explore what makes old buildings tick, why some fall out of use and into disrepair, and get hands-on with the skills that can help fix them and give them a new purpose. Hackathon teams will dive into vacant historic buildings in Winnipeg's downtown to puzzle through reuse solutions. Their conclusions will be revealed to conference participants at the Conference on Saturday.

Leaders of province-wide heritage organizations from across Canada meet to discuss common issues and strategies.

Linseed Oil Paint Finishes and Window Restoration Workshop (Presented by Parks Canada with Sage Restoration Ltd.)
Featuring Sonja and Hans Allbäck, Allbäck Windowcraft Education, Sweden

This workshop has been designed as a solid introduction to linseed oil paint systems. This day has been tailored to the needs of heritage site and programme managers/officers, project managers, property owners, and design professionals.

• Agenda:
• - Linseed oil; its history qualities, and application;
• - Comparison of modern paint systems vrs linseed oil paint systems;
• - Guidance on how to prepare a linseed oil paint project;
• - An overview of window restoration projects using linseed oil paints;
• - Service life and maintenance planning;
• - Dos and don’ts; troubleshooting.
  
  Will including “hands-on” experience, using restoration equipment and applying linseed putty and paints.
  
  Location: Lower Fort Garry National Historic Site (St. Andrews, MB). Shuttle provided for National Trust conference registrants.

Explore the winding streets, beautiful residential interiors, and the public policy opportunities and challenges of Winnipeg’s first Heritage Conservation District (HCD). Situated in a large bend in the Assiniboine River, this relatively isolated residential district was developed as a suburban haven for well-to-do families in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This interactive field session will delve into the fascinating history of the district, provide insight into the community organization and politics behind its recognition as an HCD, and look to the future in accommodating sensitive infill.

• Leaders:
• - Giles Bugailiskis (Historyworks)
• - Maureen Krauss (Principal, HTFC Planning and Design)
• - Armstrong’s Point Neighbourhood Association

Built in 1962 - 63, Winnipeg City Hall was designed by prominent architectural firm, Green Blankstein Russell (GBR) to accommodate the legislative and administrative functions of the City of Winnipeg. This project was the initial component in a City of Winnipeg Cultural Renewal Strategy which included similar new construction projects including the Manitoba Centennial Centre, (the concert hall, museum, planetarium and Steinkopf Gardens) linked with an underground tunnel to the Civic Centre. The Public Safety Building and parkade were completed in 1966 followed by the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre (National Historic Site) in 1970. Join us to learn about these buildings and their designers. The tour route is fully accessible.

• Leader:
• - Jeffrey Thorsteinson (Winnipeg Architecture Foundation)

This field session takes you to 3 major destinations which illustrate how heritage has played a key role in the revitalisation of Winnipeg’s urban landscape. Launching from Portage and Main, our first stop is the recently restored Fortune and Macdonald Block. The resurrection of this 1883 structure demonstrates how a committed developer has brought back historic structures that most Winnipeggers thought were doomed. Strolling south along Main, we arrive at the nucleus of pre-urban Winnipeg, Upper Fort Garry Provincial Heritage Park. This three acre cultural landscape uses contemporary interpretive techniques such as a pixilated 400 foot steel wall to illuminate key stories associated with the establishment of Manitoba. Transitioning through Union Station National Historic Site, we enter the heart of The Forks, Manitoba’s most successful tourism destination and heritage revitalisation. A meeting place for indigenous peoples for over 5,000 years, The Forks also served as an historic port, railway hub and now a recreational and commercial attraction. This tour will combine historic context with experts who have been personally involved with the planning and development of these heritage resources. Your experience will culminate in your introduction to the magnificent Museum of Human Rights.

• Leaders:
• - Greg Thomas (Winnipeg Architecture Foundation)
• - Sheila Grover (Historians)
• - Others TBA

Did you know that many of Winnipeg's "stone" buildings are made of clay? Winnipeg’s terra cotta collection is large and essentially complete. It is an unparalleled sampling in North America of the variety, versatility and beauty of this material. Join us for a tour through Winnipeg's downtown to learn more about the history of terra cotta, of Winnipeg's history and to view this wonderful collection of terra cotta architecture. The tour route is fully accessible.

• Leader:
• - Gail Perry (Winnipeg Architecture Foundation)

At less than 160 years old, Winnipeg, Manitoba and its architecture is young. Yet, throughout this city and province, countless buildings are constructed of a 445 million year old material extracted from the depths below. This is Tyndall Stone. Both regionally commonplace and unique worldwide, the mottled, fossil-rich limestone formed 450 million years ago, in the basin of a shallow sea near the equator. For the last hundred years Tyndall Stone has been quarried near Garson, Manitoba and shipped across Canada and as far away as Europe, Australia, China and Japan. Join us for a 90-minute tour exploring several Tyndall Stone buildings downtown. On this tour you’ll learn about the beginnings of the Manitoba quarry industry, how to spot and identify fossils, and the curious story of how Tyndall Stone got its name.

• Leader:
• - Abi Auld (Winnipeg Architecture Foundation)

St. Boniface has long been the home of Franco-Manitobans in the province and ranks as the largest francophone community in Western Canada. The community was first settled in 1818 to meet the cultural and religious needs of the Red River Colony’s French and Métis inhabitants. A Francophone presence was thus established in the region before spreading throughout much of the future Province of Manitoba. St. Boniface became the Catholic and Francophone capital of the Red River settlement. Visit Louis Riel’s Grave, Grey Nuns’ Convent (one of Winnipeg’s oldest buildings), St. Boniface Cathedral, and more.

• Leader:
• - Dr. Philippe Mailhot (Retired Director of the St. Boniface Museum)

Come and explore Winnipeg’s Exchange District National Historic Site with the City of Winnipeg’s Historical Buildings Officer, Murray Peterson, who has over 30 years of experience in Winnipeg heritage field. Find out how the District began and how it has been transformed through city planning, heritage designation, government funding and private sector participation. Tour the successes, the failures and get a glimpse into future development.

• Leader:
• - Murray Peterson (Historical Buildings Officer, City of Winnipeg)

The oldest neighbourhood in Winnipeg, Point Douglas is both a candidate for a Heritage Conservation District (HCD) and a site of future densification. We will explore the nature of the district, key historic buildings and the unique history of social activism in this area. We will be starting at the Old Dominion Bank and visiting Thunderbird House, the Vulcan Iron Works, Manitoba Indigenous Education Centre, Barber House, and North Main Street and the river walks that surround Point Douglas. We will engage in questions including the applicability of an HCD in Point Douglas during a time of urban and social transitions.

• Leaders:
• - Wins Bridgman (Architecture, Bridgman Collaborative Architects & author of Listening to the Community in North Point Douglas: A Five-Year Action Plan 2019-2024 for the City of Winnipeg)
• - Sel Burrows (Point Douglas social activist)
• - Catherine Flynn (Point Douglas historian)

Heritage Academics and students meet to discuss issues relevant to heritage education and training in Canada.

Annual General Meeting for the Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals (CAHP). Open to all CAHP members

Celebratory Reception for Sponsors and Contributors to the Conference (by invitation)

Come grab a drink and a bite to eat and mix and mingle with conference exhibitors.

This discussion-oriented session will explore Standard 11 of the widely adopted Standards and Guidelines for the Conservation of Historic Places in Canada: “Conserve the heritage value and character-defining elements when creating any new additions to an historic place or any related new construction. Make the new work physically and visually compatible with, subordinate to, and distinguishable from the historic place.”

• Panelists:
• - Michael McClelland (Founding Principal, ERA Architects, Toronto)
• - Brent Bellamy (Creative Director and Architect, Number TEN Architectural Group)
• - Julia Gersovitz (Founding Partner, EVOQ Architecture)

Speakers:

• - Linda Monckton (Head, Wellbeing and Inclusion Strategy, Historic England)
• - Tomasin Playford (Executive Director, Saskatchewan Archaeological Society)– Digging Deep: Archaeology as a Tool for Reconciliation
• - Marty Donkervoort (Social Entrepreneur and Associate- Renaissance Management Consulting Group Inc.) – Inner City Renovation: How a Social Enterprise Changed Lives and Communities
• - Jan Haenraets (Professor of Practice, Preservation Studies Program, Boston University) – A Museum of Anthropology: Conflicted Iconography, Contested Land
• - Other speaker TBA

Moderator: David Pensato

Speakers:

• - Susan Algie (Director, Winnipeg Architecture Foundation)
• - Ken Kelly (Planning and Community Engagement Consultant, Corinthian Consulting)
• - Mike Scatliff (Principal, Scatlif + Murray)
• - Glen Murray (Entrepreneur & Former Mayor of Winnipeg)

Speakers: Participants TBA from Maamiikwendan: Remembering Residential Schools & Cemeteries as Indigenous Sites of Conscience.

With Simultaneous Interpretation

Speakers:

• - Mark Bauche (Associate, HTFC Planning & Design) & Gerald Friesen (Historian & Friends of Upper Fort Garry) – Upper Fort Garry and Oodena Celebration Circle – The Forks
• - Other speakers TBA

Depart the Fairmont hotel by bus at 8:30 am for the Manitoba Legislative Building. Join Dr. Frank Albo, creator of the Hermetic Code for an unforgettable tour of decoding the famous symbols and architecture that makes the building truly unique. Meet inside the Manitoba Legislative Building and begin your understanding of this magnificent building.

Dr. Albo will uncover trails of occult clues concealed in the building’s architecture including: hidden hieroglyphic inscriptions, numerological codes, and Freemasonic symbols so intelligently masked it has escaped historians and visitors for nearly a hundred years! You will learn that the building is a library of coded messages and secret techniques inscribed in a Masonic language. Is it possible that the Legislative Building is really a conduit of magical power? Is the building’s location in the centre of North America a site for numinous earth energies? Come and find out for yourself! The Hermetic Code Tour is part of the Signature Experience Collection with Destination Canada.

• Tour Includes:
• - Exclusive guided one and half hour tour of the Manitoba Legislative Building by Dr. Frank Albo
• -  Tour escort throughout
• -  Transportation by coach

With Simultaneous Interpretation

Speakers:

• - Marianne Amodio and Harley Grusko (MA+HG Architects) – Modernizing and Contrasting Heritage Sites
• - James L Curtiss (Senior Architect, EVOQ Architecture) - From Archaic to High-Tech: A Continuum of Design, Materials, Construction The West Block, Parliamentary Hill, Ottawa, Canada
• - Daniel Durand (Senior Architect, DFS Architecture) - La restauration du clocher Saint-Jacques de l’UQÀM – Nouveau regard sur un monument historique classé
• - Douglas de Gannes (Associate, ERA Architects) - Adapting the Major FA Tilston Armoury for the University of Windsor’s New Downtown
• - Megan Torza (Partner, DTAH) - Master Planning New Development in Heritage Contexts

Regenerating Places of Faith - Finding the Right Use(s) to Make it Work

Revitalizing a place of faith is a complex undertaking, with multiple considerations, constraints and opportunities. This session will focus on the lessons learned in cases where finding the right new use(s) for a place of faith is supporting their long-term sustainability.

• Moderator:
•   Rob Pajot (National Trust for Canada)
  
  
  • Speakers:
  • -  Prince Nwigwe Orakwue (Intern Architect, AAA & Ordained Minister) & Patricia Glanville (Heritage Architect) – Regenerating B’Nai Tikvah Synagogue (Calgary) and St. Chad’s College Cathedral (Regina)
  • -  Marcel Piché (VP Finance and Administration, Carleton University) & Barbara Myers (Senior Planner, SvN Architects + Planners) – Carleton University Shows Unique Leadership in the Regeneration of Historic Dominion Chalmers United Church
  • -  Roberto Chiotti & Michael Nicholas-Schmidt (Larkin Architect Ltd.) - Regenerating Places of Faith: Focusing on “Worship” as the “Character-Defining Element.”
• -  Graham Singh (Executive Director, Trinity Centres Foundation)

Speakers:

• - Andrew Murphy (Developer & President, Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia) - The Business Case for Heritage: Lessons from the Halifax Experience
• - Natalie Voland (President, Gestion Immobilière Quo Vadis) - Preserving the Integrity of an Asset from a Triple-Layer Approach: People, Planet, Profit
• - Other Speakers TBA

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This lunch hour presentation will provide information on three Canadian Heritage programs that support the heritage sector. It will primarily focus on the Canada Cultural Spaces Fund, an infrastructure program that supports eligible not-for-profit arts and heritage organizations to undertake renovation and construction projects, purchase specialized equipment and carry out feasibility studies related to cultural spaces. In addition, information will be provided on the Museums Assistance Program and the Building Communities Through Arts and Heritage program.

• Leaders:
• -  Andrea Philp (Regional Manager, Arts and Infrastructure, Prairies & Northern Region, Department of Canadian Heritage)
• -  Erin McIntyre (Senior Program Advisor, Canada Cultural Space Fund, Prairies & Northern Region, Department of Canadian Heritage)

Speakers:

• -  Royden Loewen (Chair, Mennonite Studies, University of Winnipeg) - TBC
• -  Linda Monckton (Head, Wellbeing and Inclusion Strategy, Historic England)
• - Natalie Voland (President, Gestion Immobilière Quo Vadis)
  
  With Other Speakers TBA

Depart the Fairmont hotel by bus at 1:30 pm. Join local music historian and author John Einarson as he guides you through the streets of Winnipeg on a very unique one-of-a-kind tour of the city’s illustrious rock ‘n’ roll history.

See the house where Neil Young lived and began his song writing career, where he made his first recordings and played his first live performances; see the house where Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman of The Guess Who wrote These Eyes, No Time and others as well as where Burton Cummings composed Share The Land, Rain Dance, and more; see the school where Neil Young sat on the steps and “dreamed of being a star”; where Bachman Turner Overdrive (BTO) was first conceived; the house Terry ‘Seasons in the Sun’ Jack grew up in; the spot where Neil Young met Joni Mitchell; plus much more.

The tour features a video of vintage photos and music as well as John’s colourful stories and points of interest. In the 1960’s Winnipeg was the rock ‘n’ roll capital of Canada. See and hear why on this exciting tour.

• Tour Includes:
• - Exclusive guided 3-hour tour by John Einarson
• -  Tour escort throughout
• -  Transportation by Mini-coach

With Simultaneous Interpretation

Speakers:

• - Marie Eve Beaudette (MA Candidate, Laval University) – Transformer le patrimoine cloîtré en catalyseur social urbain
• - Jerry Dick (Executive Director, Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador) – Developing a Heritage Paint Colour Chart for Newfoundland and Labrador
• - Martin Lavoie (Creadditive Solutions 3D) – Les technologies 3D au service de la sauvegarde du patrimoine bâti
• - Catherine Precourt (Quarry Park Manager, Town of Stonewall) - In the Limelight: A Town and Its Industrial Heritage
• - Jason Rioux (Entrepreneur) – Creating a Carbon-Free Chapleau Hub
• - Other Speakers TBA

Speakers:

• - Susan Ratcliffe (Former President, Architectural Conservancy of Ontario)` and Mike Marcolongo - “You can’t keep ‘em down on the farm. . .”: The interface of Cultural Heritage Landscapes and Development Pressures in a Fast-Growing Area of Guelph
• - Will Teron (Director, Heritage and Investigation, Tacoma Engineers) – Moravian Mission Complex: Reflections and Projects of the Complex’s Significance and Opportunities for the First Nations Agvituk Sivumuak Society in Hopedale, Labrador
• - Patrick Donovan, Lorraine O’Donnell & Brian Lewis (Associate Coordinator, Quebec English-Speaking Communities Research Network QUESCREN) – Entry at a Crossroads: Revitalization of and Island Community through Heritage.
• - Mary Jablonski (Jablonski Building Conservation) – Ghosts of Inhabitants Past: Conserving Interior Finishes

Can Heritage Organizations Do a Better Job of Telling Their Story Attracting Potential Philanthropists, Government Partners and Investors

Speakers:

• - Richard Frost (Executive Director, The Winnipeg Foundation)
• - Jane Nicholson (Secretary, Annapolis Royal Wharf Association)
• - Other Speakers TBA

Pimachiowin Aki World Heritage Site & Other Manitoba Sites

Speakers:

• - Alison Haugh (Executive Director, Pimachiowin Aki Corporation & Other Speakers TBA
• - Jill Taylor-Hollings (Postdoctoral Researcher, Dept. of Anthropology, Lakehead University) - Collaborative Archaeology along the Bloodvein River (Miskweyaabiziibee) Cultural Landscape in Northwestern Ontario: Finding and Protecting Heritage Sites

Workshop on Demonstrating the Value of Historic Places

Have you been looking for good evidence of the contributions of historic places to Canada and to Canadians? Are you interested in exploring what data and research are currently available in Canada that demonstrate the economic, well-being, socio-cultural and/or environmental contributions of historic places?

This workshop offers an opportunity to hear about a current research initiative, talk with others about what is happening across Canada to build an evidence base for the value of historic places, and express your opinion on what is needed to convince decision-makers, funders and all Canadians to support historic places.

Leader: Mary Lou Doyle (Manager, Cultural Heritage Policies and Legislation, Parks Canada)

Many Winnipeggers only think of Chinatown as a slightly exotic urban pocket where they occasionally go for dim sum. But the few square blocks around King Street and Alexander Avenue, just north of the Exchange District, are steeped in more than 135 years of significant history. Chinatowns were enclaves where Chinese political groups organized and dramatic troupes performed. They were havens where a Chinese newcomer who had just got off the train could get help from fellow countrymen. They attracted Christian missionaries who sought to convert "heathen" Chinese. They were seen as "exotic" and "sinful," and thought to be associated with gambling and opium dens (Marshall, Winnipeg Free Press, July 28, 2012).

• Leader:
• -  Alison Marshall, Brandon University professor and author of two books on Chinese Canadian history on the prairies, will lead a walking tour of Winnipeg’s Chinatown and its key historical buildings and sites.

Downtown Public Art Walk: From Indigenous Art to Commemorating the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike

This wide-ranging walking tour will take in significant public art pieces in the downtown such as the new This Place: On Treaty 1 Territory & the Homeland of the Métis Nation, a playful mid-century Winston Leathers mural, a restored Gothic Revival fountain, and the dramatic 1919 Winnipeg General Strike streetcar sculpture.

• Leader:
• -  Alexis Kinloch (Project Manager, Public Art, Winnipeg Arts Council)

Celebratory Reception for National Heritage Award Winners (by invitation)

Join us for a presentation of annual heritage awards by the National Trust and Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals and enjoy musical entertainment from Manitoba artists.

This national heritage event only happens once a year, so you need to dig deeply into your energy stores and stay up late! Come meet new friends and get connected at this fun social event in The Forks Market building – created in 1989 by joining two historic cartage company stables. Food provided and enjoy pay-as-you-go microbrewery beer brewed on site.

Presenters:

• - Bruce Tascona (Founder, Military History Society of Manitoba) – Designating Camp Hughes National Historic Site
• - Al Thorleifson (Curator, Pembina Manitou Archive) - Crossing the Generations: Digital Context for an Architectural Heritage Site
• - Adrian Soble (Research Assistant, NSERC CREATE) - Modeling and Analysis of Indoor Environmental Quality and Energy in Built Heritage: A Case Study
• - Amanda Sherrington (Candidate, MArch, University of Toronto)- Re-Imagining the Mall PARKing
• - Sarah Righi (Candidate, MArch, Laval University) - Centre des loisirs Molson : Reconversion de la brasserie en site multifonctionnel pour lapérennisation d’un emblème culturel de Montréal
• - Kristian Falkjar (Candidate, Master Architecture, Carleton University) - Effects of Casein Protein Additive in Historic Lime Mortar in Masonry Walls
• - Michael Gutland (PhD Candidate, Civil Engineering, Carleton University) - Understanding Heritage Building Aided by Energy and Hygrothermal Modelling

Speakers: Gerry Humphreys & Others to be announced

Regenerating Places of Faith – Having an Impact in Rural and Urban Contexts

This session will explore how the regeneration of historic places of faith can be tailored to their specific contextual needs – such as new social housing in an urban setting, or the preservation of a critical rural ‘third space’ – and the potential negative impact that church closures will have on the community groups housed within them.

• Moderator:
•   Rob Pajot (National Trust for Canada)
  
  
  • Speakers:
  • -  Jennifer Miltenburg (Dairy Farmer, Municipal Councillor, Director of St. Joseph’s Kingsbridge Community), Marianne Hogan (Program Manager, Kingsbridge) & James Van Osch (President, Kingsbridge) – Kingsbridge Centre Project Revitalizes Rural Ontario: Sustaining Former Church as a Community Heart
  • -  Jamie Posen (Senior Planner, Fotenn Consultants), Barbara Myers (Urban Planner, SvN Architects and Planners Inc.) & Marcella Poirier (Chief Development Officer, Real Estate Development, University of Winnipeg) – Regenerating Places of Worship (30 minute presentation)
  • -  Kendra Fry (Regeneration Works Advisor, Faith and the Common Good) – Counting the Social Good Being Done by Non-Profits and Community Groups in Faith Buildings: The “Third Space” Survey and Research

The Tools in the West: Heritage Revitalization Agreements and Protecting Heritage with Only Carrots

Speakers:

• - Cheryl Mann (Candidate, Masters of Planning, University of Manitoba) - Student Presentation – Stopping the Wrecking Ball: Addressing Demolition By Neglect in Winnipeg
• - Amber Knowles (Heritage Planner, City of Vancouver) – Heritage Revitalization Agreements: The Way of the West
• - Andrew Mok (Senior Planner, City of Brandon) - Brandon’s Municipal Heritage Incentive Program: Success in the Making
• - Christina Karney (Associate, mcCallumSather) & Cecilia Nin Hernandez (Designer, mcCallumSather) – Creating a Business Case for Conservation
• - Rina Ricci (Heritage Planner, City of Winnipeg)

Don’t miss the Winners Circle session where the individuals and organizations behind this year’s award-winning projects and places will share the lessons behind their success. Join us for a showcase of transformation projects, inspiring communities, and resilient historic places that illustrate the viability of heritage buildings and sites for traditional or new uses.

Raising Democratic Discourse: Accessibility Upgrades to the Manitoba Legislative Chamber.

The Manitoba Legislative Building, an iconic Winnipeg landmark, was constructed from 1913 –1920 and is one of the province’s most impressive heritage structures. The legislative chamber is unique among provincial legislatures in that the members’ seats are arranged in a horseshoe-shape, with the Speaker situated separately at the opening. This arrangement admirably encourages open dialogue and communication, however the original design did not accommodate universal access, making it challenging, if not impossible, for a differently abled person to serve in such key roles as Premier, Speaker, Senior Minister, or Leader of the Opposition. In 2018, an important, large scale renovation was completed that opened desks to persons with physical limitations, including accommodations for wheelchairs and other mobility aids.
Join this field session and explore how the heritage rehabilitation meticulously preserved the original design intent and integrity, allowing the space to retain its original appearance with exactitude while utterly transforming it. Discover the process, key features, and many challenges and successes of the renovation project. Space limited due to security considerations.

Leader: Evan Hunter (Architecture, Republic Architecture)

Lunch with Manitoba Heritage Showcase – Come meet heritage groups and artists from Manitoba and beyond.

APT Technical Committee on Sustainable Preservation OSCAR Info Session - Online Sustainable Conservation Assistance Resource (OSCAR)

The Online Sustainable Conservation Assistance Resource (OSCAR) is an innovative web application that guides you through the process of designing the sustainability improvements that are most appropriate to your heritage building. OSCAR consists of a series of databases of design strategies and best practices integrated within an overarching framework to generate a holistic intervention strategy. OSCAR functions as both a design aide for industry professionals as well as a learning tool for students, academics and others in related disciplines.

In this information and demonstration session you will:

- learn about OSCAR and how to use it;

- learn about various strategies to repair and improve the sustainable performance of steel and aluminum windows;

- learn about our crowdsourcing method of developing content.

OSCAR is an initiative of the Association for Preservation Technology International's Technical Committee on Sustainable Preservation.

• Leader:
• -  Carly Farmer (Member, APT Technical Committee on Sustainable Preservation & Intern Architect, MTBA - Mark Thompson Brandt Architect & Associates Inc.)

Pick up you lunch at the buffet line and come to the Ballroom for exciting updates on the heritage sector’s work and to participate in the National Trust’s Annual General Meeting. All are welcome. Trust members may vote on resolutions using the gold voting card provided in their registration envelopes.

This discussion-oriented session will explore Standard 11 of the widely adopted Standards and Guidelines for the Conservation of Historic Places in Canada: “Conserve the heritage value and character-defining elements when creating any new additions to an historic place or any related new construction. Make the new work physically and visually compatible with, subordinate to, and distinguishable from the historic place.”

• Panelists:
• - Steve Barber (Senior Heritage Planner, City of Victoria)
• - Other Panelists TBA

Canada’s heritage places have always been defined by the stories they tell. However, these places are increasingly being defined by the stories that are absent – particularly the stories of Indigenous Peoples who made use of these places since time immemorial and for whom many of them remain sacred.

Parks Canada is working to deliver on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Call to Action 79, which calls on the Government of Canada integrate Indigenous history, heritage values, and memory practices into Canada’s national heritage and history, and to commemorate the contributions of Indigenous peoples to Canada’s history.

Join Parks Canada and Indigenous community leaders to discuss initiatives underway across the country to include multiple perspectives, share storytelling authority and engage Canadians with broader, more inclusive stories.

Join buildings materials reuse experts, project architects, and contractors as key projects in downtown Winnipeg are explored. The field session will include such sites as the Red River College Exchange District Campus (opened in 2003) which adapted and recycled 19th century warehouse buildings, and the Mountain Equipment Co-op (303 Portage Avenue) opened in 2002, which incorporated an extraordinary 96% of the materials from the deconstructed buildings on the site. Other sites such as the Dalnavert Museum’s Visitors’ Centre, Public Safety Building, West End Cultural Centre, and James Street Pumping Station, will be included if possible.

• Leaders:
• -  Mark Gorgolewski (Ryerson University)
• -  Gerry Humphreys (Milestone Project Management)
• -  Susan Ross (Carleton University)

Sustaining Working Class Heritage: Hong Kong Roots and the Winnipeg General Strike 1919.

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• - Dr. Yu Ka Sing (Architect, Hong Kong University) – The Award-Winning Blue House Project: Inclusive Conservation of Marginalized Local Heritage in a Global City with High Development Pressure.
• - Danny Schur (Writer, Composer, Producer of STAND!: The Musical) – Taking the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike from Stage to Screen

Cap off the conference and toast your new friends at an evening of finger foods, libations, and conversation in the breathtaking Canadian Museum for Human Rights. The building will be closed to the public during this time and delegates of the conference will have access to the entire museum.