Don’t miss the National Trust’s Award Winner’s Circle session, where the individuals and organizations behind this year’s award-winning projects and…
Operating a Historic Place
Rethinking Material Values: Reuse, Deconstruction, Embodied Carbon, and Social Justice
For about two decades, the heritage conservation sector has been trying to define, assert, and leverage the relationship between conservation…
Cracking the (Construction) Code Barriers for Existing Buildings
The Building Code is “sometimes” viewed as a major barrier when it comes to building reuse. This session provides an…
Heritage and Housing: Resolving the Designation and Density Tension
Propelled by a growing housing crisis, Canada’s urban areas rapidly need more density and old buildings are said to be…
Diagnostics and Retrofits as Climate Action
The race to net zero is heating up and heritage buildings are being pressed to prove their worth. This in-depth…
Transforming Heritage: How Far Will We Go?
Launched by words of welcome from the Anishinabe Algonquin Nation and other dignitaries, this rapid-fire opening plenary will inspire and…
Challenging Existing Narratives and Conventional Heritage Practice
Heritage places have often served to preserve and protect cultural assets that contribute to official narratives of national and civic…
“Changing the Narrative”: Commemorating Canada’s diverse and complex history
Parks Canada’s efforts to commemorate and interpret history are guided by The Framework for History and Commemoration. This Framework outlines…
Ownership and Sustainability Models – Planning for the Future
This session is for you if you are interested in keeping heritage places supported, financially sustainable and ready for the…
Cultural Tourism: Regenerating Tourism, Post-Pandemic
Cultural tourism has been hard hit during the pandemic. Walk away from this session with a better understanding of regenerative…
A New Model of Stewardship for Historic Places: Four Local Case Studies
What happens when historic places we take for granted suddenly come at risk? Often this is due to development pressures…
New Financial Solutions and Business Models for Heritage Development
Risk, return on investment, construction costs, tax treatment, ease of property development… Property owners plotting the future for heritage places…
Climate Action: Embodied Carbon Calculation and Adaptation Strategies
The Canadian heritage conservation sector is simultaneously working to help decarbonize the economy through building reuse/retrofitting and helping heritage places…
Rethinking Revenue Development: Innovative Ways to Save, Sustain and Grow Your Historic Site
This session features three unique approaches to sustaining and growing revenue to evolve and save historic places. The speakers will…
Accelerating Building Reuse, Retrofits, and Adaptation for Challenging Buildings
This session explores creative approaches at four uniquely challenging properties related to conservation and protection, accessibility and inclusion, business modelling,…
Telling a Fuller Story: Transforming Heritage Places and Processes
While heritage conservation practices have successfully empowered people to protect heritage places, many communities and perspectives have been marginalized or…
Reconsidering Museums
What do Canadians see as the value of museums for them, their communities, and for Canada? Reconsidering Museums, a three-year…
Engaging Indigenous Partners in Cultural Heritage Management
Parks Canada is seeking to tell broader and more inclusive stories that represent the diversity and complexity of Canadian history….
Getting to Zero: Energy Retrofits, Mitigation, and LCA at Heritage Places
The race to net zero is heating up and heritage buildings are being pressed to prove their worth. This in-depth…
Getting to Yes! Building our Heritage Through Accessibility
How do ‘Accessibility’ and ‘Heritage’ work together? What opportunities exist for making our heritage buildings more welcoming and inclusive of…
Resilient and Sustainable Historic Sites
‘Resetting’ historic sites requires breaking out of traditional models and adapting to ever-changing contexts. Whether through their innovative programming, communications…
Heritage Education Reset
With heritage linked increasingly to achieving goals of environmental, social, economic, and cultural sustainability, what is missing in teaching still…
Historic Sites Post-COVID Regenerating Tourism and Attracting New Audiences
As the tourism sector “hits the reset button” in the aftermath of COVID 19, what are the implications for Cultural…
Heritage Conservation and Real Estate Economics: Unpacking Factors Affecting Heritage Property Investment
The decision by property owners to retain and reuse, or to demolish heritage buildings, doesn’t happen in a vacuum. This…
Heritage Served Up Virtually: Navigating the New World of Online Events and Programming
Are you exploring moving events or programming online? Is this the right fit for your historic site? As physical distancing…
Recruiting and Engaging Volunteers for your Historic Place
In the heritage sector we rely on volunteers to be our advocates, story tellers, champions and fundraisers. In this webinar…
Insurance Issues at Heritage Sites
The current COVID-19 crisis is presenting multiple challenges to historic sites that cannot currently provide their usual in-person activities and…
Climate Change in Heritage Places
This webinar will explore the impacts of climate change and extreme weather events affecting Canadian heritage places and will gain…
