Ideas Worth Sharing Webinar Series – February to June 2025

Join the “Ideas Worth Sharing” webinar series, showcasing inspiring presentations from the APT-National Trust Joint Conference 2024 (with CAHP & IHC) in Montreal (Nov 12-16).  

This six-part series features insightful presentations from experts in Canadian heritage conservation, followed by live Q&A sessions.

Thursday, March 27 (12:00 – 1:00pm ET)  Register Now

Heritage, Housing, and Climate Action  Part 1
  • Shelley Ludman (Senior Associate, ERA, Toronto, ON) – Responding to a Housing Crisis through Heritage Conservation  
  • Mitchell May (Associate, Giaimo, Toronto, ON) – High-Carbon Sites: Examining the Impact of Successive Development in Toronto.

Thursday, April 24 (12:00 – 1:00pm ET) Register Now

Heritage, Housing, and Climate Action, Part 2
  • Meghan Lenz (Grants Program Manager, Vancouver Heritage Foundation, Vancouver, BC) – Sustainable Heritage: Enabling Deep Energy Retrofitting in pre-1940 Homes
  • Ya’el Santopinto (Principal, ERA, Toronto, ON) & Graeme Stewart (Principal, ERA, Toronto, ON) – Retrofit and Affordable Housing: The Deep Retrofit of Canada’s Legacy of Modern Residential Towers.

Thursday, May 8 (12:00 – 1:00pm ET) Register Now

Reconciliation, Diversity, and Inclusion, Part 1
  • David Siebert (Researcher, Heritage Saskatchewan) & Jennifer Fitzpatrick (Director, Cultural Services, City of Humboldt, SK) – Relationship Building and Reconciliation through Living Heritage
  • Mandy Kilsby (Museum Curator, Barkerville Heritage Trust, BC) – Decolonizing a Colonial Historic Site: Barkerville and Historic Empathy

Thursday, May 22 (12:00 – 1:00pm ET) Register Now

Reconciliation, Diversity, and Inclusion, Part 2

Dr. Melissa Lee (CEO, Chinese Canadian Museum, Vancouver, BC) – Our Voices, Our Stories: The First Chinese Canadian Museum in Canada

Emma Lang (Executive Director, Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS) & Naomi Kent (Programming Coordinator, Africville Museum, Halifax, NS) – 1 by 1, 2 by 2: How Small Organizations Can Improve Representation in Built Heritage Preservation

Past Webinars in this Series

Tuesday, February 25 (12:00 – 1:00pm ET) 

Confronting Canada’s Heritage Trades Deficit  
  • Nadia Grogan (Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Ottawa, ON), Heritage Masonry: Investigating the Value of Traditional Building Crafts in Canada and Opportunities for Capacity Building   
  • Luke McElcheran (Intern Architect, Architecture49, Montreal, QC) – Heritage Advocacy Gaps for Traditional Trades in Toronto’s Conservation Sector  
Tea & Talk with the 5 Canadian Heritage Organizations  

Join representatives from five leading Canadian heritage organizations— Canadian Museums Association, Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals, ICOMOS Canada, Indigenous Heritage Circle, and the National Trust for Canada— for “Tea & Talk with Five Canadian Heritage Organizations,” an interactive discussion on federal advocacy, the state of heritage in Canada, and more.

Panelists:

  • Andrew Waldron, Executive Director, Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals (CAHP)
  • Janis Kahentóktha Bomberry, Executive Director & CEO, Canadian Museums Association (CMA)
  • Mathieu Dormaels, President, ICOMOS Canada
  • Kisha Supernant, President, Indigenous Heritage Circle (IHC)
  • Patricia Kell, CEO, National Trust for Canada

 

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