Hal Kalman has been awarded the 2009 Gabrielle Leger Award for Lifetime Achievement by the Heritage Canada Foundation. The award was presented in Toronto on September 25.Dr. Kalman’s reputation as a heritage conservation practitioner, theorist, writer and educator is internationally recognized. When he opened his practice in Ottawa in 1975 he became Canada’s first professional heritage consultant.Hal has introduced many innovations to...
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Bill S-215,  An Act to Protect Heritage Lighthouses, was passed by Parliament in May 2008.  Passage of the bill was a milestone for heritage conservation in Canada and a triumph for the heritage movement.  S-215 was the seventh attempt, the first being introduced in the Senate in 2000. The new act will do several things:provide a means for the selection and designation of federal heritage lighthousesprevent the unauthorized alteration...
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With the fall election behind us and a second Conservative mandate underway, we still have no clear indication what to expect for heritage from Ottawa under this government. The only new heritage initiative from the Conservatives in their first term was the surprise announcement in the 2007 budget that a National Trust would be created.  Based on the British model, the Minister of Finance said, it will be independent of government and “protect...
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