INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH: CONSERVING CANADA’S INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE

PROGRAM

21 TO 24 October, 2009 Liuna Station 360 James Street, Hamilton

DAY 1: Wednesday, October 21

1:00 p.m. Pre-Conference Tour 2:00 p.m. McMaster University Nuclear Reactor 3:00 pm Pre-registration required due to limited spaces.

EVENING Opening Reception 7:00 pm - Hamilton Museum of Steam and Technology 10:00 pm 900 Woodward Avenue, Hamilton, Ontario (at the QEW) Registration Conference delegates are invited to The Hamilton Museum of Steam and Technology for an evening reception that will celebrate the 150th anniversary of municipal drinking water in Hamilton. Tours of the original 1859 steam engines that first pumped water to the city will be provided.

DAY 2: Thursday, October 22 At Liuna Station, 360 James Street North Built as the Canadian National Railway Station in 1929 to 1931, this monumental structure designed in the classical Beaux-Arts style has been beautifully restored by the Labourers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA). It is also a National Historic Site of Canada.

8:00 a.m . Registration

9:00 a.m. Welcome/Introductions

9:15 a.m. Session 1: New Site Development: Brownfield’s to Heritage Sites Chair: Christopher Andreae, Senior Built Heritage Specialist, Golder Associates

1.1 Deloro Mine Site Cleanup Project Heather Hawthorne, Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Tamara Anson-Cartwright, Ontario Ministry of Culture

1 1.2 Buildings in the Balance: Assessing the Case for Keeping Heritage Buildings on a Brownfield Site Sarah Gray, P. Eng., Halsall Associates, Ltd 1.3 Evergreen Brickworks – An Industrial Strength Case Study David Stonehouse, Director of Site Development, Evergreen Brickworks

10:35 a.m. Break

11:00 a.m. Session 2: Inventories, Evaluation and Awareness Chair: Louise Trottier, Consultant in Museum Research, Ottawa

2.1 Development of a Database for Industrial Heritage in Nova Scotia Donald S. Wyllie, Bedford, Nova Scotia

2.2 L’Association Quebecoise pour le Patrimoine Industriel (Aqpi): 20 Years of Awareness Building and Networking Lise Noel, President of Aqpi and Director, Bell Historical Collection

2.3 Historic Machinery of Ontario: What, Where and Whither? Shawn Selway, Millwright, Hamilton, Ontario

12:00 pm . Lunch

1:00 p.m. Session 2 (Continued)

2.4 Working Heritage: Managing Industrial Heritage Still in Use Industrial Strength: Maintaining Use Claudine Déom, Université de Montréal and Marie-Josée Deschênes, Hydro-Québec

1 :30 p.m. Session 3 : Industrial Heritage of Hamilton Chair: Mac Swackhammer, Hamilton Museum of Steam and Technology

3.1 Hamilton’s 19 th Century Industrial Heritage: From Water Power to

Steam to Electricity Anthony Butler, Anthony Butler Consulting Inc.

2:00 p.m. Break

2:20 p.m . Session 4: Conservation, Adaptive Reuse and Economic Viability: A Case Study of the Distillery Project Chair: Edwin Rowse, ERA Architects Moderator of Panel Discussion: Michael McClelland, ERA Architects

2 4.1 Introduction and Background to the Distillery Project Edwin Rowse, ERA Architects

4.2 Adaptive Reuse of Industrial Heritage: A Developer’s Perspective Jamie Goad, OAA MRAIC, Cityscape Development Corporation.

4.3 Architecture, Economics and Process: A Tale of Two Malthouses Chris Andreae, Golder Associates. Ltd.

4.4 Adaptive Re-use and Archaeological Preservation: Balancing Goals David A. Robertson & Ronald F. Williamson, Archaeological Services Inc.

4:45 p.m . End

5:00 pm to ICOMOS Canada Meeting to be held at Liuna Station 7:00 pm (All participants are invited to attend)

DAY 3: Friday October 23 SHERATON HAMILTON HOTEL

9:00 a.m. Keynote Address Pier Giorgio Di Cicco Sponsored jointly with the Ontario Museums Association At the Sheraton Hamilton Hotel, 116 King St W, Hamilton

10:30 a.m . Return to Liuna Station Shuttle bus available or a 10-15 minute walk from the Sheraton Hotel

11:00 a.m. Session 5: Industrial Landscapes Chair: Susan Bronson, Heritage Consultant, Montreal

5.1 Heritage Corridor of the Lachine Canal: Ten Years Later Pauline Desjardins, Archaeologist, Montreal, Quebec and Gisele Piedalue, Archaeologist, Saint-Tite, Quebec

5.2 Oil Heritage District: Lambton County Ontario Wendy Shearer, Landscape Architect, Kitchener, Ontario

5.3 Cite de l’Or: Protection & Development: A Challenge of Reconciling Objectives Marc-Antoine Jette, Development Officer, Cite de l’Or, Val d’Or, Quebec

12:30 p.m. Lunch

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6.1 Building Community Connections in the Industrial Heritage Sites of Maritime Canada: Personalized Heritage and the Search for Memory and Authenticity in the Visitor Experience Robert Summerby Murray, Mount Allison University

2:00 pm Session 7: Industrial Heritage Museums: Issues in Conservation, Interpretation & Sustainability Chair: Donald Luxton, Donald Luxton & Associates, Vancouver

7.1 Britannia Beach BC: An Orphan is Given a Chance Kirsten Clausen, Executive Director, BC Museum of Mining

7.2 Historic Clay District: Medicine Hat, Alberta Barry Finkelman, Executive Director & General Manager, Historic Clay District, Medicine Hat, Alberta

7.3 North Pacific Cannery, Port Edward, British Columbia Andrew Hamilton, President, Port Edward Historical Society

3:40 pm Wrap up Discussion An Industrial Heritage Network: Do we need one? What should it look like?

4:30 pm End of Session

5.00 - ICOMOS Canada Annual General Meeting at the Liuna Station 7:00 pm (for ICOMOS Canada Members only)

EVENING Evening Reception 7 pm - Paper Box Studios 10 pm 468 Cumberland Ave, Hamilton

Food, refreshments and live music at the Paper Box Studios, a former industrial building that manufactured paper boxes. The building was recently renovated into 8 artists studios by the Imperial Cotton Centre for the Arts in partnership with Dalton Developments.

Shuttle bus from downtown will be available

DAY 4: Saturday, 24 October 2009

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8:30 am - Tours 5:00 pm Departure point to be determined

Industrial Heritage of Toronto: Downsview and the Distillery District Tour Organizers: Edwin Rowse and Michael McClelland of E.R.A. Architects Inc.

Over the Waterfalls and Around the Bay Tour Organizers: Anthony Butler, Anthony Butler Consulting Inc., and Mac Swackhammer, curator, Hamilton Museum of Steam and Technology

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