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Speech - Niagara Falls Sat Speech - Niagara Falls Sat. February 22nd-14 Good Afternoon....... Thank you for inviting me today ..... and thank you all for attending. It is good to be back in Niagara Falls - and I say that because in years gone by, I spent a lot of time here when we had a Regional heritage group — I was here when you had a tree designated, and I remember how the Mayor complained about how much it cost ! and when you were attempting to save the Bright’s Wines building where a grocery store was to be built - and we had a heritage house tour here one year and they had me stationed in a B&B which I was later told by the owner, was haunted...... and, of course, I have known Kym Cody for years - she is one of the most talented and gifted people I know-- and she has always had a great commitment to heritage preservation. A little known fact is ....this is Heritage Week in Ontario - although you would never know it — Heritage Day has been completely eradicated from the calendar and replaced with Family Day by the province, without notification or consultation. Of course, I have nothing against families, but why did the government steal the one day a year when we actually celebrated heritage. It just illustrates the importance the province places on their heritage ! Your theme for today is “Preserving the Past for the Future” - and that is a very big subject – so I am mainly going to focus on “what steps we have to take” to ensure this preservation, and there are a lot of them. I am starting to feel a bit like Hazel McCallion - I started doing this“heritage thing” about 30 years ago, and it has not become easier ---- it is much more difficult. My dream was always to join Greenpeace - where I could climb high buildings and hang protest banners - and go to jail. This is not a success story - it is about the manner in which our heritage is treated not only in Ontario, but in Canada. How did all of this start for me ? I am a great fan of quotes - all my friends know that .... Yogi Berra had some wonderful and quirky sayings, but there was always an element of truth in all of them. He said “When you come to a fork in the road, take it” — and I think that is what a defining moment in your life is all about - you can look back and see it clearly...... and that defining moment can and does change your life. When I look back over many years, the fork in the road which I took was the road to heritage preservation. It completely changed my life and the way I think about everything. I have to tell this story which I have told so many times .... for those of you who have heard it, please bear with me .... it is the only way I can describe what I do so that it is understood; —I have to draw this mental picture for you---- When I got involved in trying to save our heritage so many years ago, personal computers were just becoming popular, and, I made up my mind that a computer was not going to rule my life ..... well guess what ! But aside from some of the jokes I receive there is some good “stuff” too. One day I got something called “how to succeed in life” - it was illustrated and had different headings - like “commitment” “hard work” “knowledge” -- the one called “persistence” took my eye ..... the illustration was a mouse trap which was baited with an inviting piece of cheese, and beside the trap ...... looking longingly at the cheese......was a mouse ---- wearing a crash helmet ! I have never found anything in these 30 years that described what I do any better than that illustration ! People who work in heritage will understand this. Heritage hangs like a delicate thread and, at best is a fragile situation — everybody loves it – it is like mother and apple pie – except if it costs money and interferes with what we call “progress”. What is heritage anyway – it is the sum total of our inheritance - built, cultural and natural, and that’s just about everything. and Why should we preserve it ? I have been impressed with a man called Richard Moe, who has written books, he is head of the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the U.S., former Chief of Staff for VP Walter Mondale, member of the Carter Sr. Staff - a pretty important guy, and his philosophy on livable cities is the best I have ever read, and I quote : It has been asked - what makes a city livable; well, it has to be safe of course, and attractive. It must provide the services we need, and it should be planned and built in a way that makes it easy to use and move around in. But there is something else - something very important and that is..... a truly livable city is one that makes us feel personally connected to it in a meaningful way. It is hard to feel that kind of connection to a place that has no distinctive character. We have all visited cities like that I am sure. Our built environment is becoming “homogenized”...it has been called “Generica” - a place where you can’t even tell what city you are in. Everyplace looks more and more like Anyplace and eventually they all wind up looking like Noplace. It is hard to feel connected to Noplace, and that is one reason preservation is so important. It is a means of saving and celebrating the history and traditions — the character, in other words, that makes every community unique, appealing and livable, and it is becoming increasingly apparent that community livability is the key to community survival...it is an economic imperative !” End of quote I love this guy ! That says it in a nutshell. No one could say it any better ! Communities need to seriously consider their everyday decision-making. As we are creating a vision for the future, we need to leave room for the preservation of the past. I am going to talk mainly about built heritage .... natural heritage is another long, sad story! Smarter Niagara has named four pillars for a complete Niagara and they are - environment, economic, social and culture - and culture means arts, culture and heritage. And, there is where part of our trouble begins ....... who in our communities will relate heritage to culture — they immediately think of the arts !....it is the unspoken word. We have a Minister in Ontario-Michael Chan, who is in charge of Tourism, Culture and Sports......where is heritage ? He doesn’t know where it is either because we never hear from him and we are all, as volunteers, out there in the field making him look good. It is a real accomplishment if we can coax a letter of congratulations out of him for a property owner who has designated his property. At the federal level, we have a new Minister of Heritage and Official Languages called Shelly Glover, a former policewoman, who has absolutely no experience in heritage, and her Parliamentary Assistant is now Rick Dykstra (St.Catharines) who has never supported heritage. This illustrates what little thought is given to the appointment of some of our Ministers; they are merely political appointments....and heritage is always at the bottom of the list. This is the type of step the Feds. take to make it look as though they are doing something .... I just got a notice from Heritage Canada National Trust. “Canada’s renewed commitment of National Historic Sites cost-sharing program -“ total funding available under this program will be $1 million which will cover up to 50% of eligible costs to a maximum of $100,000. Per project. That means 10 applications for the maximum will use up the funding. This is a disgrace - a drop in the bucket - do you know how many National Historic Sites there are across Canada....over 950 - out of that 167 are administered by Parks Canada. These places shape our identity, create jobs and attract tourist dollars. The Feds. should be ashamed of themselves ! Now everybody will be scrambling to get some of this money. It degrades the meaning of “heritage preservation” and the volunteers who work so hard ! Although I know Britain is an older country they have a thing called “English Heritage” with 400 heritage properties (including sites like Stonehenge) - they have 11 million visitors each year, they have 750 members and give out 24 million pounds (not dollars) in grant monies each year. That is heritage the way it should be managed. Once the Government set the Ontario Heritage Act in place in 1974 and put its contents into action, they pulled back on all financial incentives, they deserted the volunteer workers in the field and left them to fend for themselves. In 2006 they put out what they call a “Tool Kit” and we haven’t heard from them since. This Tool Kit, by the way, lists all the duties of a heritage volunteer - it is overwhelming — sounds like a full-time job to me - check it out ! I have a list of 50 items entitled “The weakening of heritage preservation in Ontario” - and I add to it regularly. It’s a sad state of affairs. Anthony M.Tung, an Urbanist and Author of “Preserving the World’s Great Cities”, researched his book by travelling to 20 of the most architecturally-beautiful cities in the world, and this is one of his conclusions ...
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