Ideas Worth Sharing Webinar Series – January – June 2026

Join the “Ideas Worth Sharing” webinar series, showcasing inspiring presentations from National Trust Conference 2025 Halifax (with CAHP & IHC) This five part series features insightful presentations from experts in Canadian heritage conservation, followed by live Q&A sessions.

Thursday, March 5 (12:00 – 1:00pm ET) Register Now

Re-storying Our Past: Case Studies in Black Heritage Preservation

Learn about the creation of the Samuel Adams Memorial in Oakville, Ontario, a powerful example of how heritage places and stories define and ground community identity while elevating historically marginalized voices. And explore the erasure of Black narratives from the internet through digital infrastructures that determine what is searchable, visible, and preserved, and learn how Black communities are actively resisting through digital sovereignty, counter-archival practices and community-based storytelling.

  • Tura Cousin Wilson & Shane Laptiste (Architects, Studio of Contemporary Architecture, Toronto, ON) – The Samuel Adams Memorial: Elevating the Heritage of Underrepresented Communities through Craft and Storytelling
  • Keisha Cuffie (CEO, Black Legacy Collective, Author, Curator, Ottawa, ON ) – Erased and Encoded: Black Heritage in the Digital Age

Thursday, March 19 (12:00 – 1:00pm ET) Register Now

Crucial Lessons from Big Projects: Reimagining, Humanizing, and Advocating for Institutional Buildings

  • Bruce Kuwabara (Founding Partner, KPMB, Toronto, ON) & David Leinster (CEO, Contemporary Calgary, Calgary, AB) – From Cosmos to Culture: The Contemporary Calgary Centennial Planetarium Transformation Project.
  • Vivian Manasc (Principal, Reimagine Architects, Edmonton, AB) – Saving and Reinventing the Former Royal Alberta Museum

Explore the reinvention of two of Alberta’s most iconic Centennial structures for dramatically new social contexts. Learn about turning the “purpose built” and wildly Brutalist Calgary Planetarium into a breathtaking contemporary art destination. Or be inspired by the intrepid Edmonton team that snatched the Former Royal Alberta Museum from the jaws of demolition and is rolling out bold new uses for the mid-century beauty.

 

April 23 (12: 00 – 1:00pm ET) Register Now

Collaborative Action for Coastal Erosion and Disaster Response

Manon Savard (Professor, Human Geography of the Environment, Archaeology and Heritage Laboratory, Université du Québec à Rimouski, QC) – Citizen Science for Monitoring Eroding Coastal Archaeological Sites

Andrea Richardson (Climate Change Coordinator, Nova Scotia Archaeology Sector, Cape Sable Historical Society, Dartmouth, NS) – It’s More than Just Coastal Erosion: Collaborative Action and the Nova Scotia Climate Change Adaptation Strategy (SPARK Presentation)

Dana Murray (PhD Candidate, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto) – Disaster Working Group: Collaboration and Collectivism in Crisis (SPARK Presentation)

 

Thursday, May 21 (12:00 – 1:00pm ET) Register Now

Re-storying Our Past: Queer Heritage & Toronto’s Chinatown West

Kristen Balogh (Structural Engineer, WSP Canada, Ottawa, ON) – Queering Heritage: From Erasure to Embrace

Sharon Hong (Senior Associate, ERA Architects, Toronto, ON) – Community Value is Heritage Value: Toronto’s Chinatown West

 

June (DATE TBA)

Indigenous Consultation in Urban Planning Projects

Lyndsay Francis (Independent Consultant, Kjipuktuk, NS) – Storytelling with the Mi-kmaw and Urban Indigenous Community in Kjipuktuk

Gwen Lane (Indigenous Program Coordinator, SpruceLab, Toronto, ON), Sheila Boudreau (Principal Landscape Architect and Planner, SpruceLab, Toronto, ON) & Kurt Kraler (Architect& Project Manager, ERA Architects, Toronto, ON) – Dawes Road Case Study: Redefining Indigenous Engagement Initiatives for Development Proposals.

Past Webinars

 

Thursday, January 29 (12:00 – 1:00pm ET)

Housing Creation through Adaptation and Relocation

Joe Nickerson (Vice President & Partner, Sidewalk Real Estate Development, Dartmouth, NS) – Reshaping Neighbourhoods While Respecting the Past

Justine Bowles (Principal, ZZAP Architecture + Planning, Halifax, NS) – Relocating, Restoring, and Expanding the Historic Elmwood Hotel

 

 

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