Operating a Historic Place

National Trust Winner’s Circle (2023)

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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“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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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Reconsidering Museums

What do Canadians see as the value of museums for them, their communities, and for Canada? Reconsidering Museums, a three-year…

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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….

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Heritage Education Reset

With heritage linked increasingly to achieving goals of environmental, social, economic, and cultural sustainability, what is missing in teaching still…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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