2010 ANNUAL REPORT Photo: Geoff Fandrick Photography JUNE 1, 2011 EDMONTON HERITAGE COUNCIL 2010 CONTENT ANNUAL REPORT Contents page 01 Vision, Mission, & Mandate page 02 2010 Board page 03 EHC Staff page 05 Message from the Acting Chair page 07 VISION Executive Director’s Report page 09 The vision of the Progress Since the Art of Living page 11 Edmonton Heritage Programs and Projects page 12 Council is of a place where heritage is MANDATE Financial Statements page 25 understood and valued The mandate of the Edmonton Appendix page 33 by all members of the MISSION community as an Heritage Council is to: integral part of life. The mission of the Edmonton Heritage is the legacy Heritage Council is to support Provide a forum for analyzing, of our past, informing the work of individuals and discussing and sharing heritage issues in Edmonton. our present, and organizations that: shaping our future. Advocate for a vibrant heritage Research, preserve, protect community and heritage and present Edmonton’s programs that benefit all unique heritage. Edmontonians. Promote an understanding of Unify Edmonton’s heritage how this distinct place and community and give it a voice. community came to be. Promote the awareness and development of Engage with the past in effective, informed and planning for the future. recognized heritage. principles and practices. 1 JUNE 1, 2011 JUNE 1, 2011 2010 BOARD heritage field with the Arts and Heritage Foundation of Alberta, serving as the Grants Committee Chair INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS of St. Albert, the City of Edmonton Archives, and for before becoming President in 2009. the past two years as the Audio-Visual Conservator Juliette Champagne - is a historian and heritage con- with the Provincial Archives of Alberta. Crystal Willie (Alberta Museums Association) - is the sultant working on a range of projects related to Al- Operations Director for the Alberta Museums Asso- berta’s Francophone communities and peoples. She 2010 Vice Chair - Virginia Stephen - is currently Exec- ciation. She is also currently the editor of Alberta Mu- has served as a board member with Franco-Albertan utive Director, Liberal Studies, Faculty of Extension at seums REVIEW. heritage organizations such as La Société Géné- University of Alberta. She has just completed a term alogique du Nord-Ouest. as Acting Director of the Arts and Cultural Manage- ment Program at MacEwan. EHC STEERING 2010 Treasurer - Lan Chan-Marples - is a research facilitator at the University of Alberta and a volun- COMMITTEE MEMBERS teer with Family and Community Support Services, ORGANIZATIONAL the Chinese Benevolent Association, the Canadian Bob Caldwell Multicultural Education Foundation, and the China MEMBERS Jim Marsh Pavilion at Heritage Day Festival. Catherine Cole Bob Caldwell (Old Strathcona Foundation) - has 35 Heather McRae 2010 Secretary - Myles Chykerda - is a recent gradu- years of work experience as a professional planner Linda Collier ate of the University of Alberta’s MA program in Hu- and municipal manager, 28 years of which was in Dr. Michael Payne manities Computing and Classical Archaeology. He the City of Edmonton administration. He is currently Lynn Fogwill is also an active poster, moderator, and columnist the Associate Director of Long Range Planning for the Lori Sokoluk with Connect2Edmonton. University of Alberta. Robert Geldart The Prince of Wales Armouries Heritage Centre Virginia Stephen Photo: Pixelens Photography Linda Collier - is a retired school teacher and director 2010 Chair - Wendy Luther (Edmonton Historical Dr. Zohra Husaini of the Queen Alexandra History Centre. A member Board) - owns, and is preserving and restoring a Dr. Frances Swyripa of the Historical Society of Alberta (HSA) and the Ed- provincially and municipally significant designated Wendy Luther (Chair) monton and District Historical Society (EDHS) for over consultant with Sumera Management Consulting. heritage home. She is presently Manager of Reverse Crystal Willie forty years, Linda is Past President of the HSA and Logistics Supply Chain Management with EPCOR. current Treasurer of the EDHS. Beverly Lemire - is Professor and Henry Marshall Tory Thank you to the above noted citizens and City of Chair at the University of Alberta in the Department Tim Marriott (Edmonton & District Historical Soci- Edmonton staff who served on the steering committee Satya Das - is Principal of Cambridge Strategies and of History & Classics and the Department of Human ety) - is serving or has served as an executive board that lead to the successful creation of the Edmonton advises senior levels of the Government of Canada Ecology. She is founding director of the Material Cul- member of the Alberta Museums Association, the Ed- Heritage Council. and the Alberta Government along with a wide range ture Institute at the U of A, which hosts annual spring monton and District Historical Society, the Edmonton of other public, private and voluntary sector organi- symposia on subjects related to material culture. Historical Board and the Edmonton Regional Histori- zations. The City of Edmonton recognized Satya’s cal Fair, which organizes an annual history event for service to culture, heritage and arts with a 2001 Ci- Ben Moses - is a member of the Saddle Lake Band. elementary and middle school students. He is a proto- tation Award. His grandfather is regarded as the last hereditary col officer with the Province of Alberta. chief in Blue Quills Band. Currently, Ben is working Karen Gabert - has worked on a number of heritage on his post doctorate degree in indigenous knowl- Debby Shoctor (Archives Society of Alberta) - became and public history research projects in Ottawa and edge frameworks and ideology. the archivist for the Jewish Archives and Historical So- Edmonton, including oral and archival research for ciety of Edmonton and Northern Alberta in 2001. In the Ukrainian Village. Karen currently works as a Terry O’Riordan - has worked professionally in the 2004, she joined the Board of the Archives Society 3 4 JUNE 1, 2011 JUNE 1, 2011 EHC STAFF travel, and has lead several international art history tours. Prior to joining the non-profit world 20 years ago, Allison worked in banking and finance. Lawrence Herzog (Heritage Writer) Lawrence Herzog joined the Edmonton Heritage Council as the first Heritage Writer in May 2011. He writes a biweekly column, Herzog on Heritage, for the EHC update and website. Lawrence has been writing about history and heritage for more than 25 years. He is the author of two Edmonton community history books and his columns on heritage issues ap- peared in Real Estate Weekly from 1991 to 2011. Lawrence has served as a member of the Edmonton Historical Board, and has chaired the city’s Historic Resources Review Panel. Chris Hutchison (Project Assistant) Chris Hutchison has been a project assistant for the Edmonton Heritage Council since February, 2011. EHC Staff (From left to right) - Mieke Higham, Shirley Combden, He graduated from the University of Alberta in 2010 Jasper Avenue at Night, 1934 Allison Argy-Burgess, David Ridley, Mary Oakwell, Chris with a Bachelor of Design Degree in Industrial De- City of Edmonton Archives Hutchison EA-160-711 sign. Currently, he resides in an artist-run co-op on the historic Alberta Avenue in Edmonton, Alberta. Chris is fascinated with the idea of social history and strives to find unique and exciting ways to connect the past Alberta, she can be found renovating a current home. United Church Historical Society and is currently ac- PERMANENT STAFF with the present. tive with his neighbourhood’s community league. David Ridley (Program Manager) Allison Argy-Burgess (Executive Director) Mary Oakwell (Administrative Officer) David began as EHC staff in April 2009, working EDMONTON ARTS Allison Argy-Burgess joined the Edmonton Heritage Mary Oakwell joined the EHC staff in October 2009, with the EHC’s steering committee before the official Council in June 2010 as the first Executive Director. just in time to assist with the coordination of the Found- founding of the Council in November 2009. His COUNCIL / She is a professional visual artist who continues to ex- ing Meeting. She is a professional writer who has been past work in heritage has been as a cultural com- hibit locally and nationally. She is also a partner and working on a variety of writing projects and has pub- munity researcher with the Royal Alberta Museum EDMONTON HERITAGE editor of the online magazine for Alberta visual art- lished articles in the Globe and Mail, Alberta’s Legacy and director of research with the Heritage Commu- ists, Artrubicon. Allison is a graduate of Grant MacE- and Westjet’s Airlines magazine. She is the author of nity Foundation. He has worked on several projects COUNCIL (SHARED STAFF) wan’s French program and has also studied at the Tea Time in Alberta, a Guide to 54 great tea rooms in documenting, interpreting and writing about local Banff Centre for Management, University of Quebec, Alberta, and Many Foundations, Historic Churches of cultural life and religious tradition in a number of Shirley Combden (Bookkeeper) University of Waterloo and University of Victoria. She Alberta. When she is not writing, travelling around the Alberta communities. He has served as a volunteer Mieke Higham (Office Manager) is strong believer in life-long learning and the value of province or taking history classes at the University of director with historical Rundle’s Mission Society, the 5 6 We try to comprehend the soul of the city, JUNE 1, 2011 too, and the way its citizens relate to their environment. Our work reminds almost a million individuals settled around MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR Edmonton that they belong to a specific place in the wold - that they are wanted and needed, right here, right now - even if they plan to board a plane for Lagos or t seems both a long time ago and just yesterday ing Committee activities and the first few challenging that the Founding Meeting of the Edmonton Heri- months after the founding meeting.