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…
Saving & Renewing Places/Communities
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…
Heritage and Getting Homes Built: Affordable Housing, Intensification, and Visualizing Change
Housing affordability and supply is at the top of the public agenda, managing change in mature neighbourhoods has become a…
The Heritage Reset: Where Do We Go from Here?
Join a group of heritage leaders who will unpack what they’ve heard about the Heritage Reset, reflect on the critical…
Stone, Tree, River, Path: Re-Thinking an Inclusive Heritage
What do we designate as heritage? What should bear the weight of memory, preserved as memorial? Buildings, monuments, landmarks, ruins,…
The Next Generation: Transforming the Heritage Industry and Workforce
At National Trust Conference 2021 (with CAHP), ACO NextGen led an incisive conversation around what the heritage sector looks like…
Measuring Impact and Asserting Value: Triple-Bottom-Line Tools, Deconstruction, and a Heritage Approach to Ordinary Buildings
Building reuse and retrofit as an alternative to new construction is recognized as the single most effective tool to meet…
Ahead of the Curve: City-Wide Surveys as a Response to Proactive Heritage Planning
An emerging best practice in cities around the globe, city-wide heritage surveys are fast-emerging as a key a part of…
Making Critical Choices (Part 2): Finding Common Cause with the Climate Movement
According to the recent Heritage Reset project survey of the heritage sector, failure to position heritage conservation as a player…
Panel Discussion – The Heritage Reset in Action
Seismic societal shifts exacerbated by a global pandemic have drawn into question many values, structures, and public policies in Canada,…
Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals Award Winner’s Circle (2022)
2022 Conference Session Each year CAHP presents our annual awards to celebrate outstanding achievement in the heritage field across Canada….
National Trust Award Winner’s Circle (2022)
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…
Spark Session
Hold on to your seats! This fast and furious “Spark” session brings you enlightening presentations in a compact session format….
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…
UNDRIP & Indigenous Heritage: In Practice
Large governmental approaches involving legislation and planning are only part of the story of the United Nations declaration on the…
Heritage for Whom? Conserving Community Spaces
While the relationship between architecture and community are intrinsically intertwined, the built form of “community spaces” is not easily defined…
Making Critical Choices (Part 1): Resetting Heritage Practice
In 2012, the National Trust’s Heritage Summit in Montreal resulted in a manifesto that attempted to re-frame heritage conservation. Ten…
Fixing Broken Systems: The Growth Machine, Environmental Plunder, & Expanding the Heritage Conservation Vision
This session seeks to unpack and disrupt key narratives propelling the take-make-waste mind set in Western societies. From the examining…
Resetting Our Heritage Purpose
Seismic societal shifts exacerbated by a global pandemic have drawn into question many values, structures, and public policies in Canada,…
ZERO is a Positive Number: Building Reuse, Climate Justice, and the Pathway to a Bright Future
Presented by National Trust for Canada Conference 2022 and hosted by the City of Toronto. Climate change is not occurring…
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 Adaptation Under Pressure
As the climate crisis intensifies and community values shift, heritage places are being asked to be more flexible, accommodating, and…
Regenerating Places of Faith
Places of faith have traditionally anchored and shaped our communities. Yet many congregations today are facing declining attendance and insufficient…
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…
Practical Approaches to Historic Home Rehabilitation
Rehabilitating historic buildings doesn’t have to be expensive and complicated. Focusing on historic homes, this webinar will present practical approaches…
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…
