WINTER / HIVER 20192019 CHO CHOQUARTERLY PUBLICATION OF COMMUNITY HERITAGE /PATRIMOINE COMMUNATAIRE DE L’ONTARIO QUARTERLY PUBLICATION OFnews COMMUNITY HERITAGE ONTARIO/PATRIMOINE COMMUNATAIRE DE L’ONTARIO

Missing Designated Properties on the Ontario Heritage Act Register Paul R. King

re all your properties recorded Registrar at the Ontario Heritage Trust, A on the Register? Is all the mentioned in the summer 2017 edition backup documentation (e.g. municipal of CHOnews: bylaws, notices, etc.) referenced and Examining the online available via PDF on the Register? I Register can help to am referring to properties designated identify missing bylaws and under Parts IV and V of the Ontario information. You can fill in gaps Heritage Act which are supposed to in the Register by working be recorded, complete with all backup with your Clerk's office or documentation, on the Ontario planning staff to ensure routine Heritage Act Register administered compliance. It is important to by the Ontario Heritage Trust. I would make sure the Register is up- suggest checking this Register which to-date since it provides an is available online at https://www. administrative backup of key heritagetrust.on.ca/en/pages/tools/ heritage documents. ontario-heritage-act-register. I checked Under sections 29(6)(ii)(A) and all designated properties for St. Marys 41(3)(a) of the Ontario Heritage Act, and found 21 properties missing from it is a requirement to inform the the Register, including the iconic Ontario Heritage Trust of each and property shown in the accompanying every designation once a municipal photo and used by Murdoch Mysteries. Andrews Jeweller building, designation bylaw is passed. This I also found that the Register did not 135 Queen Street East, St. Marys includes the requirement that include all documentation for the 25 Photograph: Paul R. King municipalities submit designation designated properties showing up bylaws, notices and other legal on the Register nor documentation Properties and backup documentation documents to the Ontario Heritage for the St. Marys Downtown Heritage can easily be missed for a variety of Trust as part of the designation process. Conservation District. I did an online reasons such as incomplete information Paul R. King is the Chair of search by simply inputting 'St. Marys' being available at the Ontario Heritage Finance for CHO/PCO. and a second advanced search Trust to properly record properties. As for heritage conservation districts. Erin Semande, the Provincial Heritage

In This Issue

Missing Designated Properties on the Ontario Heritage Heritage is Good Business 5 Act Register 1 Life After the Rails 6 President’s Message 2 Community Heritage Ontario Service Awards 2019 8 Designating the Farm 3 Training Sessions - What Do You Need? 8 Meet the New CHO/PCO Program Officer 4 National Trust Governor's Report 9 Interested in Speaking at a CHO/PCO Workshop? 4 Self-Guided Tour App 12 President’s Message

Bill 66 – Potential Impact on Heritage Conservation CHOCHOnewsnews The Ontario Government has tabled legislation, Bill Winter/hiver 2019 66, Restoring Ontario’s Competitiveness Act, with corresponding amendments to other legislation such as CHOnews is published quarterly by Community Heritage Ontario. the Planning Act, which could have an adverse impact on the conservation of heritage resources. Community Heritage Ontario, 24 Conlins Road, The Planning Act amendment would create a ‘new Scarborough, ON M1C 1C3 economic development tool’, the open-for-business by- 416.282.2710 [email protected] law which would be available to municipalities to act quickly to attract businesses seeking development sites. Contributors permit further copying of their works only for the purposes of educating the public on heritage The Proposed Legislation matters. Copyright remains with the A municipality could pass an open-for-business by-law using a streamlined author or creator. Credit must be given to process for proposals that intend to create at least 50 jobs in municipalities with the author or creator and to the source, CHOnews, on all copies made. No work under 250,000 population and 100 jobs for municipalities greater than 250,000. can be reprinted in any published form The process would allow municipalities to pass such by-laws without having to without permission of the copyright holder. ‘strictly adhere to’ its own official plan or zoning by-law or with provincial policies (e.g., the Provincial Policy Statement issued under the Planning Act) or provincial The content of CHOnews does not contain nor reflect any opinion, position, plans (the Greenbelt Plan or the Niagara Escarpment Plan). Bonusing under or influence of the Board of Directors or Section 37 of the Planning Act (sometimes used to conserve heritage properties) the Editor. would be removed and public discussion would be at the discretion of the The financial support of the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport is gratefully municipality. Decisions of the municipality would be final (no appeal permitted), acknowledged. although the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing could intervene for up to facebook.com/CHOntario 20 days after the by-law is passed. The government is proposing regulations in twitter.com/CHOntario support of the legislation.

Impact on Heritage Conservation ISSN 1201 – 9852 Many municipalities use their official plan, the provincial policy statement (e.g. 2.6.1 – Significant built heritage resources and significant cultural heritage landscapes shall be conserved), their zoning by-law and bonusing provisions under the Planning Act to conserve cultural heritage resources. The proposed legislation would remove the requirement that municipalities adhere to those plans, policies and opportunities when proposals for jobs that meet the criteria are made. At this point, the government is proposing that open-for-business by- laws be limited to uses such as manufacturing and research and development but not residential, commercial or retail as the primary use. So far the regulations are silent on job proposals for office development, warehouse (big box) uses or resource extraction (pits and quarries). Submitted articles must be in Microsoft Word format. Images YOU CAN COMMENT must be sent as .jpg attachments in The legislation has received first reading (December 6, 2018), but you high quality resolution (300 dpi). Do can comment directly to the legislature on the proposed regulations at not embed the images in the text https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/013-4239 until January 19, 2019. You can also of the article. Captions and credits must be provided. submit your comments directly to your member of provincial parliament Newspaper articles as updates and to the member of Parliament who sponsored by the bill, the Honourable to MHC activities cannot be Todd Smith, Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade at used without permission of the [email protected]. newspaper and/or the original author. Text written by the MHC is Until next time, encouraged. Wayne Morgan Articles are published in the language they are received.

2 CHOnews | www.communityheritageontario.ca | Winter / hiver 2019 Designating the Farm Dan Schneider

Ontario’s farms are the creations of immigrants About the rest of the farm there was no agreement. of varied backgrounds who often showed distain, The Town wanted to designate the whole 100- if not outright hostility, for their neighbours. The acre property “including all buildings, cultural landscape mirrors this outlook: no residential farm villages, a system of public roads that bypass farm buildings, and private lanes leading to them. Building sites varied with local conditions but tended to be set well back on the lots. Here was privacy, freedom from the “disagreeable necessity” of gazing at one’s neighbour, and security from passers-by helping themselves to the orchard or kitchen garden.1

nlike many other cultural heritage landscapes, the Illustration from Perth County Historical Atlas, 1879 traditional Ontario farm at least has well-defined U heritage landscape features, and cultivated fields.” edges. Typically, the farm is on a lot of about 100 acres. One The Foundation, which contemplated the sale and property with set boundaries. development of much of the property for residential From a protection standpoint this may make things purposes to support its stewardship of the site, wanted easier — since you’re dealing with a single property the designation limited to the five acres. there will be a single owner. Not surprisingly then, The Board determined that the entire farm warranted the vehicle of choice to protect historic farmscapes designation under the OHA, not so much for its value is individual designation under Part IV of the Ontario as a representative Ontario farm but because of its Heritage Act (OHA), rather than the more cumbersome association with the famous Sir Frederick. heritage conservation district designation, which in In a 2015 case, Quereshi v. Mississauga (City)3 the theory could also be used. In fact, district designation, municipality wanted to designate 2.15 acres at 2625 and the Heritage Conservation District (HCD) plan Hammond Road in Mississauga (expanding an earlier that it requires, may in some ways be more suitable designation that covered the former farmhouse and for farms — large, complex properties with a variety of surroundings). However, most of the original farm cultural and natural resources. had been sold off and the features of a traditional It may surprise you that about 50 Ontario farms have farm — barns and other farm buildings, fences, fields, been designated under Part IV. Although only a few of woodlots, etc. — no longer survived. these are “whole” farms or even large parts of them. The Board recommended against the designation, The most famous farm designated under the OHA concluding that the loss of farm-related attributes is the Banting Homestead near Alliston. The 100-or- was fatal to the argument that a designatable cultural so acre farm was the birthplace and boyhood home heritage landscape extended to the whole 2.15 acres. of Sir Frederick Banting, the co-discoverer of insulin. The main lesson from these cases: To meet the Reg. The whole farm was designated in 2007 following a 9/06 criteria for physical/design value, the argument landmark Conservation Review Board hearing and that a farm property is “a rare, unique, early or report.2 representative example” of a “type” of property known At the pre-hearing stage the Town of New Tecumseth as the traditional Ontario family farm will have to be and the Ontario Historical Society Foundation, the well-developed. And the classic features (or most then owner of the property, agreed to the protection of of them) of an old Ontario farm — farmhouse, barn, about five acres containing “the house, barn, piggery, outbuildings, fields, etc. — will have to still be present. silo, henhouse, implement shed, cow shed, garage, In what should prove to be another instructive case, rail fencing, yard, commemorative markers, and the Conservation Review Board will again confront immediate cultural heritage landscape features.” these issues in deciding on the designation of the

1 McIlwraith, T.E. (1997). Looking for Old Ontario. University of Press, Scholarly Publishing Division, Toronto, ON. 2 The CRB decision can be found at http://elto.gov.on.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Banting-Homestead.pdf. 3 The CRB decision can be found at http://elto.gov.on.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/CRB1407.pdf.

Winter / hiver 2019 | www.communityheritageontario.ca | CHOnews 3 Marcolongo Farm in Guelph. The would like to build houses on the Notice of Intention to Designate the property! The CRB will hear the property at 2162 Gordon Street was case in the new year. issued in March of 2018.4 Described Dan Schneider is former senior as Guelph’s first designated cultural policy advisor with the provincial heritage landscape, the designation culture ministry. Now a professional was instigated by the Marcolongo heritage consultant, he blogs family and has their full support. on the OHA and heritage policy Farm scene near Bamberg The objectors here are not the at https://uwaterloo.ca/heritage- Photograph: Dan Schneider owners — but two developers who resources-centre/blog.

4 The very interesting NOID can be found at http://guelph.ca/wp-content/uploads/council_agenda_0627111.pdf#page=577.

Meet the New CHO/PCO Program Officer

ommunity Heritage Ontario several municipalities in Ontario and for a series of workshops that will C recently added a new member has served on the Town of Georgina’s kick off in the new year as Heritage to the team! Starting officially in Heritage Committee. Committees begin their new terms. October 2018, Krista Barclay joined As Program Officer, Krista will be Keep an eye out for workshop notices CHO/PCO as the new Program Officer. working closely with CHO/PCO's in the coming months – we hope to Krista is originally from Education Committee and the board see you there! Northumberland County and has an to help roll out educational initiatives Are you interested in hosting a extensive background in Canadian that bring together heritage planners, CHO/PCO workshop, or speaking history stemming from her graduate Municipal Heritage Committees, at a workshop in your area? work at Wilfrid Laurier University and and members of the public who are Contact Krista at krista.barclay@ the University of . She has interested in heritage conservation. communityheritageontario.ca worked in museums and heritage in She will be arranging guest speakers

Interested in Speaking at a CHO/PCO Workshop?

Community Heritage Ontario is looking for Municipal Heritage Committee members who are interested in sharing their knowledge and expertise with Municipal Heritage Committees and community members. We are looking for subject matter experts who are willing to share their professional experiences at upcoming workshops covering:

Introduction to Heritage Conservation

Building a Heritage Register

Insurance and Designation By-laws

Researching Heritage Properties

Heritage Conservation Districts

Adaptive Reuse of Buildings

Council/Property Owner/Developer Relations

How Does Heritage fit with Planning

If you are a heritage planning consultant, municipal heritage planner, or a Municipal Heritage Committee member interested in sharing your expertise at a workshop in your area, please contact Krista at [email protected]

4 CHOnews | www.communityheritageontario.ca | Winter / hiver 2019 Heritage is Good Business Tracy Gayda eeds and Grenville Economic Development L recently held their annual summit in Kemptville, Ontario. This 10th anniversary event was celebrated with a record turnout considering the horrid early arrival of winter that day. The Bill Thake Memorial Award for Economic Development Leadership is presented at the summit each year. It was conceived in memory of Bill Thake, a past Warden of Leeds and Grenville County, mayor of Westport and overall promoter of the county. The award recognizes the achievements of volunteers who have shown outstanding commitment and leadership, resulting in the growth and vitality of the Leeds Grenville economy within the ten member municipalities. The award has been presented for the past 8 years and there have been 11 recipients. Heritage has shown its presence, with individuals and groups as nominations and/or winners. Robin Jones, Warden for Leeds and Grenville, This year’s winner was Doug Bond. Doug is well known in presented the award to Doug Bond the Leeds and Grenville area in regards to heritage promotion. Photograph: Deanna Clark, Economic Development Officer, A retired teacher and long-time resident of the Township United Counties of Leeds and Grenville of Rideau Lakes, he has spent many years advocating for also an author. His family has lived in the former township of heritage of the Rideau Lakes region. He has been involved Bastard and Burgess, now part of Rideau Lakes Township, in many heritage events and projects including the Ontario for many generations. His descendents were farmers and Heritage Conference in 2006 which was held at Chaffey’s cheese makers hence the title of his book, Perspectives on Locks. He was also an influencer and researcher for the a Wedge of Cheddar. The second edition of this book was UNESCO designation for the Rideau Canal. released in 2017. It does give some history of local cheese- A driving force behind the township’s famous North Leeds making though mostly recounts many memories and Heritage Map, Doug always seems to have a handful of maps stories of earlier daily life in the North Leeds rural townships. available for attendees at local heritage events. As chair of Congratulations to Doug Bond, a most deserving and the Municipal Heritage Advisory Committee, Doug Bond hardworking promoter of heritage and its key role in has been prominent and has worked with the Canada’s economic development for many places in his area and in Historic Places Registry to include heritage properties in Ontario. their database. Working with the Rideau Lakes Municipal Visit http://www.twprideaulakes.on.ca/heritage/index.html Heritage Committee, Doug assisted in the recently to explore more of the Rideau Lakes Region and Heritage. developed app, Revel in the Rideau Lakes, which can be The smartphone download can be found there as well as downloaded to your phone. It includes tours from past paper the heritage map, local histories and the many projects of pamphlets and website-oriented tours such as walking the Municipal Heritage Committee that Doug has been tours in five Rideau Lakes communities and three driving involved with over the years. tours covering the township’s historical sites. The phone app Tracy Gayda is a Vice-President of CHO/PCO. broadens the scope to include natural trails, boating and cycling adventures so far. A map, descriptions and histories are available for offline viewing after downloading the app. While the committee work has kept him very busy, he is

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Winter / hiver 2019 | www.communityheritageontario.ca | CHOnews 5 Life After the Rails Erin Semand with Research by Lucy Lu ailways fostered the growth of industries, expanded the station for the 300,000 commuters that pass through R settlement and created new geographies of on a given weekday. prosperity. The decline of railway service in the 20th Mudtown Station Brewery and Restaurant is located in the century coincided with the advent of automobiles and the former Owen Sound CPR Station (bylaw 2010-1999 and OHT building of highway infrastructure. However, the remnants easement). This rectangular one-storey brick and limestone of an extensive railway system remain etched in collective building was constructed in 1946-47 as part of the CPR’s memory of the Ontario landscape. The history of railways is modernization program which began after the Second both a controversial and sentimental narrative fundamental World War. After the station's closure, it remained vacant to our heritage and identity. The culture of railroads may for a number of years. The former station was purchased by have declined but railway infrastructure remains intrinsic to the City of Owen Sound and was recently brought back to many communities across Ontario by finding a new, viable life as Mudtown Station Brewery and Restaurant. Countless use. hours were spent hand cleaning, polishing and restoring the Historic railway stations not owned by a federally regulated existing wall coverings, hardware, tile floors and bathroom entity and protected by the Heritage Railway Stations fixtures and restoring the ticket wicket that all lend to the Protection Act are often protected with an Ontario Heritage vintage vibe of the brewery and restaurant. Trust conservation easement and/or designation under the Ontario Heritage Act. In the Ontario Heritage Act Register, there are 80 section 29 (Part IV) designations related to railway infrastructure – the majority being stations. The transition of railway stations to an alternate or enhanced use is often complex and the process can take years. In some cases, after a station is closed or transferred to a new owner, they sit vacant for lengthy periods of time until there is some combination of proactive ownership, community buy-in, partnership opportunities and financial incentive or investment. Stations in the Greater Toronto Area have undergone Mudtown Station Brewery and Restaurant, modest enhancements to serve as commuter hubs for located in the former Owen Sound CPR Station Go Transit passengers. For instance, the 1871 Markham Train Station (bylaw 204-91) and the Art Deco former Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway Station (bylaw 94- 125) in Hamilton serve thousands of commuters on a daily basis. Most commuters are heading to Toronto (bylaw 948-2005 and Union Station HCD) which is undergoing an extensive construction project to modernize

Located in northwestern Ontario, the former Sioux Lookout CNR Station (bylaw number 38-01 and OHT easement) was constructed in 1911 and served as a source of employment, transportation, communication and delivery of goods until permanent roads were constructed in the 1960s. The Sioux Lookout station, now owned by the municipality, is still used for passenger service and as a refueling stop by . Parts of the building have been adapted to alternate uses including a community museum on the second floor and Union Station commercial tenants on the main floor. Fun fact: the Sioux 6 CHOnews | www.communityheritageontario.ca | Winter / hiver 2019 Former Sioux Lookout CNR Station Former North Toronto Station, now Summerhill LCBO Lookout Railway Station is also the northern-most OHA converted this wooden railcar into a school to live and travel designated property. between 1926 and 1965. The School on Wheels program was There are a number of other examples from across the supported by the Ontario Department of Education in an province including: effort to educate Northern Ontario residents. The program • The former Kingsville Railway Station (by- set out to build a stronger sense of national identity amongst law 31-1994), a Romanesque style building new immigrants from Eastern Europe and Scandinavia. constructed of fieldstone has been a While it was a progressive education campaign that restaurant for a number of years. The former brought educational resources to the Northern population, railway tracks are located directly south of it also reflected the Anglo-conformist attitude of the time. the station and form part of the Chrysler The railcar now serves as a museum to the School on Greenway, a recreational trail. Wheels program. The multifaceted purpose of this railcar is a symbol of both the unique history of education and of • The former North Bay CPR Station (bylaw immigration 2004-151) houses the North Bay Museum and These examples of designated railway stations show offers regular programming and exhibitions, creative adaptive reuse that retains the heritage features and rental for special events or corporate and historic value of railway infrastructure. functions. Erin Semande is Provincial Heritage Registrar at • The former (CPR) the Ontario Heritage Trust. Research completed by Station in Peterborough (bylaw 12-077 and Lucy Lu, Assistant Registrar (Co-Op) and a Master of OHT easement) now houses private offices Information Candidate at the University of Toronto. and the local Chamber of Commerce.

• The impressive CPR North Toronto Station (bylaw 526-6) was built in 1916 and has been repurposed as an LCBO

There are even examples of “rolling stock” designated under the OHA. The Canadian Northern Railway School on Wheels is now permanently located in Clinton (now Central Huron, Bylaw 13-1984). Fred Sloman and Cela Sloman

CHO/PCO Mission Statement To encourage the development of municipally appointed heritage advisory committees and to further the identification, preservation, interpretation, and wise use of community heritage locally, provincially, and nationally.

Board Meetings CHO/PCO Board of Directors meetings are open to any MHC member. Please contact the Corporate Secretary to confirm each date before attending. Scheduled meetings will be held at 6282 Kingston Road, Scarborough.

Winter / hiver 2019 | www.communityheritageontario.ca | CHOnews 7 Community Heritage Ontario Service Awards 2019

Community Heritage Ontario is pleased to present our Annual Heritage Service Awards. The board invites nominations for 2 awards to be presented at the Ontario Heritage Conference in Bluewater & Goderich (May 30- June 1)

One award given annually to an individual in each category.

1. Service to CHO/PCO—members are encouraged to submit the names of CHO/PCO members who have provided a minimum of 5 years of service to CHO/PCO, have shown leadership in CHO/PCO, and have furthered the cause of heritage in Ontario.

2. Service to Municipal Heritage Committees who are members of CHO/PCO—members are encouraged to submit the names of members of their Municipal Heritage Committee (MHC) who have provided a minimum of 5 years of service to their MHC; have shown leadership in the MHC; have furthered the cause of heritage in their local community. MHC’s must be members in good standing with CHO/PCO.

The nominator should submit the following: Category of Nomination Name and Contact Information of Nominee Number of Years of Service Contributions made in the nominating category Name and Contact information of the Nominating Member(s) or Municipal Heritage Committee

Nominations from the previous year are being accepted and encouraged. A new nomination information sheet must be submitted.

Standing Board Members are not eligible for the awards.

Please send your nomination to: CHO/PCO 24 Conlins Road Scarborough, ON M1C 1C3 or by email to [email protected]

Deadline for nominations is Wednesday, March 20, 2019.

Training Sessions - What Do You Need? Paul R. King s Mick Jagger and the Stones just been appointed. the Heritage Resources Centre at the A said: “You don't always Please fill out the Survey Monkey University of Waterloo in developing get what you want, but you get at your earliest convenience during training sessions that meet your what you need.” In order to set up January 2019. You will see from the needs. Results of the survey may also relevant training sessions, we need survey that it can be filled out by lead to further, more in-depth research your assistance. What training do municipal employees responsible for in order to refine the training. The you need in order to fully carry out heritage matters, heritage advocates, deadline for completing the Survey your municipal heritage committee and heritage property owners, as well Monkey is January 31, 2019. Thank you role? We want to do what we can as members of municipal heritage for your time and cooperation. We are to ensure that municipal heritage committees. It takes less than five trying to ensure that you “get what you committees are functioning to minutes to complete the online survey need”! their full potential. Focusing on at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ Paul R. King is the Chair of training is particularly relevant H7GZ9D5. The information gathered Finance for CHO/PCO. now because many new municipal will be very helpful to Community heritage committee members have Heritage Ontario in conjunction with

8 CHOnews | www.communityheritageontario.ca | Winter / hiver 2019 CHOnews Deadlines Membership Renewal is Due March 10 June 10 We have payment options for our 2019 membership fees. Pay by October 10 PayPal from the website or an invoice can be sent for electronic December 10 transfer. Article submissions www.communityheritageontario.ca/membership always welcome.

National Trust Governor's Report Michael Seaman t seems like yesterday that I by our regional distinctiveness and the I attended my first National Trust awareness that our local heritages are Conference in St. John’s Newfoundland not pieces in isolation, but part of the in 1999. It was there that I became aware larger national heritage fabric that is of this great national organization, Canada. The stories we tell through founded in 1973, in the tradition of the our heritage buildings and landscapes English and US National Trusts, that are part of Canada’s national story. plays a unique role in the heritage Heritage practitioners, volunteers and conservation movement and practice donors should take pride in this good in Canada, binding us all together work that those of you who are reading from Vancouver Island to the Avalon this, do. Peninsula, and from Peele Island to I was also struck by the many ways Tuktoyaktuk in pursuit of a common the challenges and obstacles we face cause. to preserve, protect and educate about While I was in St. John’s I was moved the heritage of this great country, Winter / hiver 2019 | www.communityheritageontario.ca | CHOnews 9 are so similar. The need for funding, access to heritage https://cahp-acecp.ca/ for the delivery of the national specialist trades and professionals, the need to engage and conference, providing an opportunity to showcase the motivate the broader society to care and become involved, work of various heritage practitioners, from architects to resonate everywhere. Heritage conservation is very much a stonemasons and researchers to carpenters, whose work locally-focussed field. By putting our heads together at the is the backbone of heritage conservation in Canada. The conference and supporting the other work of the National fact that heritage restoration work is largely undertaken Trust, we learn of innovations and best practices from all and managed by Canadian practitioners using Canadian parts of the country that help us achieve success in our local materials, underlines the inherent sustainability of restoration work. as an industry and one which is truly an investment in This past October, I had the privilege of attending the Canada. One of the greatest challenges to achieving success most recent conference, held in Fredericton, New Brunswick in heritage conservation in every part of Canada is often the under the theme Opportunity Knocks: Heritage as an Social, lack of supply of practitioners to do the necessary work. It Economic and Place making Force. The conference brought is clear that by investing in development of new talent, that together dynamic speakers such as former Winnipeg jobs will be created, the national economy will be stimulated Mayor, Glen Murray, now Executive Director of the Pembina and the ability of communities and property owners to Institute; Janet Hansen, Deputy Manager of the City of conserve heritage resources and places will be significantly Los Angeles, Office of Historic Resources; and performer, enhanced. composer, activist and musicologist, Jeremy Dutcher, a Next year’s conference will be held in Winnipeg, Manitoba, member of the Tobique First Nation in New Brunswick who from October 17-19. It will provide an incredible opportunity uses music to transcend boundaries and create awareness to see how a focus on heritage is playing a major role in the of indigenous culture. It also provided an opportunity to revival of Canada’s Chicago of the North. showcase outstanding and innovative efforts in conservation  in the Fredericton area, including Marysville, one of Canada’s This past June I was privileged to be on hand in Port last intact 19th Century mill towns; the restoration and Dalhousie to present the final $40,000 This Place Matters adaptive reuse of an historical railway roundhouse, now the (2016) prize installment, to the organizers of the Save Lock thriving Picaroons Brewery and Entertainment Centre; and One campaign. the Fredericton Railway Bridge, a 581 m span of abandoned This Place Matters is a National Trust project started railway, now a keystone and landmark of the Fredericton in 2015 with the goal of directing much needed funding recreational trails system. to community groups who work hard to give beloved In recent years the National Trust has partnered with community landmarks a new lease on life. Since then, 1.4 the Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals Million dollars has been directed to 89 worthy projects across

Fredericton Railway Bridge Little Italy in Copper Cliff Photograph: Michael Seaman Photograph: Michael Seaman 10 CHOnews | www.communityheritageontario.ca | Winter / hiver 2019 the country. This Place Matters also gives participating immigration and in the case of Copper Cliff, improvements teams the tools they need to expand their social media reach, in local transit. Local Historians like former hill resident, learn fundraising techniques and find new supporters. Franko Mariotti are working to keep the story of Copper In Port Dalhousie, the prize money is being used to help Cliff’s Little Italy, alive. One of the ways he is doing this, is the Kiwanis Club of St. Catharines and its partners, the by recording and retelling the oral history of the community Niagara 4H Club and the City of St. Catharines, to restore as it once was, as he did for our tour group at the recent historic Lock 1, which was established in 1829. Once part of Ontario Professional Planners Conference. Franko’s personal the second Welland Canal, the lock is becoming a public stories were invaluable in bringing the distinctive winding gathering place and interpretive site. For more information lanes and houses of the hill, to life. about This Place Matters, and how you might be able to help Last October at the Fredericton Conference of the the National Trust help even more communities to conserve National Trust for Canada, I was proud to be elected to serve their historic places, contact the National Trust for Canada at as the Chair of the Board of the National Trust for Canada. [email protected] I look forward to helping communities across Ontario and  Canada with their conservation efforts, through this role. I One of the most enjoyable parts of serving on the Board want to take a moment to thank my predecessor, Richard of Governors of the National Trust for Canada, is speaking Moorhouse, for his outstanding leadership which has seen in various places around Ontario and Canada. In 2018, I was the organization significantly improve its ability to carry privileged to be invited to the Ontario Heritage Conference out its mandate as Canada’s national charitable not-for- in Sault Ste. Marie and the Ontario Professional Planners profit organization that leads and inspires action for places Conference in Sudbury. This gave me the opportunity to that matter, and forges a national movement to conserve, experience Ontario’s north for the first time. In Sault Ste. interpret and advocate for the resources and cultural heritage Marie, the rich heritage of Ontario’s Metis community was landscapes of Canada. Richard was also instrumental in in focus, as was a fascinating talk about the search for the working with our outstanding staff, to further expand our Group of Seven Painting Sites in the Algoma District. network of sites. These sites can be accessed for free across In Sudbury, I toured historic, Copper Cliff, part of Greater Canada and around the world using your National Trust for Sudbury that was a former company town centred on the Canada Membership card. ongoing mining and smelting industry. It is perhaps best As Chair, I look forward to the opportunity to work with all known for the INCO super stack, tallest chimney in the of you to continue the work of the National Trust in helping Western Hemisphere. Nestled at the base of the Superstack Canadians to conserve and educate about our national is the micro neighbourhood of Little Italy, a remarkable heritage, that continues to grow with every moving story, cultural enclave of Italian Canadian culture, reminiscent of an every building that reminds us of who we are and every Italian hilltop town with its winding streets and charm. The place that matters to Canadians, as part of the endless heyday of Little Italy on “The Hill” was probably around fifty thread that is Canada. years ago, but like many immigrant communities in Canada, Michael Seaman in Chair of the Board of Governors the neighbourhood has experienced changes brought for the National Trust for Canada. about by evolving economic circumstance, out-migration,

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Winter / hiver 2019 | www.communityheritageontario.ca | CHOnews 11 Self-Guided Tour App Paul R. King n order to bring attention to heritage properties, properties. I municipalities need an easy to use self-guided tour app. The goal is to enable Canadians to take a direct role, Do members of municipal heritage committees know of first by identifying important community cultural any apps with the following capabilities: heritage assets using a standardized process and medium, and second by sharing the information that  useable on computers or smartphones will be easily accessible online. Building Stories uses tools based on national  usable at home or for driving or walking tours standards such as the Canadian Inventory of Historic  easy for the public to download and use Buildings, to enable students, volunteers and  usable for individual heritage properties (whether professionals to capture, record, map, share and designated or not), heritage conservation districts and promote their built and cultural heritage. Users can do cultural heritage landscapes this using their computers or Smartphones.  capacity for audio commentary Building Stories was an excellent initiative and,  capacity for inputting current and historic photos going forward, the best approach may be to improve and update this platform. If we want to create greater  capacity for inputting text and videos interest in and understanding of heritage properties  mapping function linked to Google maps plus encourage tourism in Ontario, it would be  capacity for local control and input of information beneficial to have one system on a common platform that can work for municipalities throughout Ontario (if A number of years ago the Heritage Resources Centre not throughout Canada). If you have any information or at the University of Waterloo developed Building Stories ideas about this initiative, please let me know. Thank (http://www.buildingstories.co) which is described as: you. An online interactive inventory for historic sites in Paul R. King is the Chair of Finance for CHO/PCO. Canada. It goes beyond existing databases to recognize any sites of historic interest, not just designated

2018-2019 Board of Directors

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE DIRECTORS President Bob Martindale Wayne Morgan Ajax 905.683.8703 Sutton West 905.722.5398 [email protected] [email protected] Matthew Gregor Scarborough 647.204.7719 Vice-Presidents [email protected] Tracy Gayda Ian MacLean Toledo 613.275.2117 Almonte 613.406.2356 [email protected] [email protected]

Ginette Guy Dennis Warrilow Cornwall 613.363.5312 Barrie 705.797.1410 [email protected] [email protected]

Chair of Finance CORPORATE SECRETARY/TREASURER Paul R. King Rick Schofield St. Marys 416.274.4686 Scarborough 416.282.2710 [email protected] [email protected]

Program Officer Krista Barclay [email protected]

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