• 01 Oct 2019
• Economics of heritage
  Archaeology
  Community
• Author: Donovan Rypkema,

Advocates for heritage conservation have traditionally made their case on the basis of architectural character, cultural significance, social relevance, esthetic quality and other values of...

• 17 Feb 2017
• Buildings and architecture
  MyOntario
• Author: Kevin Mannara,

The term symbolkirchen can roughly be translated as a “symbol bearing church.” Such churches point to living realities beyond ourselves and hold the potential to...

• 17 Feb 2017
• MyOntario
• Author: Jim Szilva,

In 1963, a firefighter named Ted Szilva entered a contest organized by the Canadian Centennial Committee in Sudbury. The committee asked residents of the city...

• 17 Feb 2017
• MyOntario
• Author: James Raffan,

Afloat at dawn and inhaling the misty rays of rising late-summer sun. Other days, it might be a sunset paddle with a Thermos of coffee...

• 17 Feb 2017
• MyOntario
• Author: Melanie Pledger,

I’m proud to be a Canadian. I’m also proud to be an Ontarian. Going one step further, I’m proud to be a Falcon. In 2014...

• 17 Feb 2017
• MyOntario
• Author: David Onley,

The photo became an heirloom in our family: a picture of Her Majesty the Queen at Kew Gardens in The Beach, escorted by Toronto Maple...

• 17 Feb 2017
• Black heritage
  MyOntario
• Author: Holly Martelle,

My life as an archaeologist often consists of hour upon hour of painstaking analysis of small bits and pieces of everyday life. But last year...

• 17 Feb 2017
• Indigenous heritage
  Archaeology
  MyOntario
• Author: Jean-Luc Pilon,

In the summer of 1982, I was carrying out archaeological research near the shores of Hudson Bay on the Severn River. One of the sites...

• 17 Feb 2017
• Buildings and architecture
  MyOntario
• Author: Georges Quirion,

Northern Ontario has unique structures, not familiar to many, spread out through small northern communities, reflecting its rich history and its vast wealth of precious...

• 17 Feb 2017
• Indigenous heritage
  MyOntario
• Author: Konrad Sioui,

There are many stories that we can share. Well, first of all, the word “Ontario” itself. Many people don’t know what it means. People try...

• 17 Feb 2017
• Expanding the narrative
  MyOntario
• Author: David Rayside,

At 6 p.m. on December 2, 1986, Ontario’s legislative assembly was scheduled to vote on adding “sexual orientation” to the province’s Human Rights Code. Ten...

• 17 Feb 2017
• Archaeology
  MyOntario
• Author: William R. Fitzgerald,

Suspicion, fear, and intimidation met Jesuit priests Jean de Brébeuf and Pierre-Joseph-Marie Chaumonot during their Mission of the Angels to “la Nation Neutre” between November...

• 17 Feb 2017
• MyOntario
• Author: Eleanor McMahon,

As Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport, I’ve had the privilege to meet many proud, talented and hardworking Ontarians through my participation in a number...

• 17 Feb 2017
• Natural heritage
  MyOntario
• Author: Steve Paikin,

A month before Ontario turns 150 years old, I’ll celebrate my 57th birthday. I’ve lived all but one of those years in the province of...

• 17 Feb 2017
• MyOntario
• Author: Scarlett Janusas,

I’ve always had a passion about archaeology and also about water. I love being on the water and under it. So, what better way to...

• 17 Feb 2017
• Natural heritage
  MyOntario
• Author: Yannick Bisson,

My first visit to Ontario, from Québec, was at about age 8. I have a distinct memory of arriving by car down the Don Valley...

• 17 Feb 2017
• MyOntario
• Author: Deepa Mehta,

When I think of Ontario, I think of inclusion, diversity and the resulting richness it brings to our province. In a world that is becoming...

• 17 Feb 2017
• Indigenous heritage
  MyOntario
• Author: Josephine Mandamin,

When we walk with the water, we pray for the water. The water that we carry, we pray for it, and we pray to it...

• 17 Feb 2017
• Francophone heritage
  MyOntario
• Author: Joëlle Roy,

Il est parti au chantierY avait à peine 15 ansY a moyen de s’en sortirPour ça, faut faire d’l’argentY en a en Ontario sous la...

• 17 Feb 2017
• MyOntario
• Author: Ellen Scheinberg,

Over the past decade, I have developed a passion for cemeteries. It started during my tenure as Director of the Ontario Jewish Archives, when I...

• 17 Feb 2017
• MyOntario
• Author: The Honourable Elizabeth Dowdeswell,

Ontario’s Legislative Building, completed in 1893, is a magnificent structure filled with stories from the most significant moments in our province’s modern history. The place...

• 17 Feb 2017
• Indigenous heritage
  Buildings and architecture
  MyOntario
• Author: R. Donald Maracle,

During the American Revolution, the Mohawks were forced to flee their homeland in upper New York State. In 1784, after spending several years in Lachine...

• 17 Feb 2017
• MyOntario
• Author: Larry Richards,

My first views of Ontario were from a passenger train 45 years ago. In 1972, I crossed the border at Detroit and took a train...

• 17 Feb 2017
• Natural heritage
  MyOntario
• Author: Joseph Desloges,

The Chinguacousy (“land of the young pines”) Badlands have been visited by hundreds of thousands of Ontarians. This rapidly eroding clay-shale bedrock at the foot...

• 17 Feb 2017
• MyOntario
• Author: Charlie Fairbank,

Each morning, I open the door of our farmhouse and step into an enduring landscape of beauty, shaped by horse and man. Sheep dot the...

• 17 Feb 2017
• MyOntario
• Author: David P. Silcox,

MY ONTARIO IS: RosalieAbella, RobertAitken, AndréAlexis, LouApplebaum, MargaretAtwood, IainBaxter&, StanBevington, BillBissett, JeanBoggs, DaveBroadfoot, EdBurtynsky, JackBush, JackCostello, DavidCrombie, KikiDelaney, LouiseDennys, MichaeldePencier, RamsayDerry, RupertDuchesne, BuddFeheley, MaureenForester, DavidFrench...

• 17 Feb 2017
• Black heritage
  MyOntario
• Author: Adrienne Shadd,

In the year of the 150th birthday of Canada, I would like to pay tribute to my hometown. North Buxton started out in 1849 as...

• 17 Feb 2017
• MyOntario
• Author: Atom Egoyan,

Whenever I have visitors to Toronto, I take them to the Harris Filtration Plant. This beautiful complex is one of the few remaining examples of...

• 17 Feb 2017
• Indigenous heritage
  MyOntario
• Author: M. Margaret Froh,

Métis youth leader Katelyn LaCroix was recently asked what being Métis meant to her. She replied that “like the sash, we are two cultures coming...

• 17 Feb 2017
• Indigenous heritage
  MyOntario
• Author: Mélanie-Rose Frappier,

Education is key. It will lead to healing as well as social awareness about the Indigenous culture. My ancestors spent hundreds of years fighting for...

• 17 Feb 2017
• MyOntario
• Author: Carl Benn,

I possess 16 photographs from c.1905 of my great-grandparents’ home in St. Catharines. At a personal level, I like these pictures because they record details...

• 17 Feb 2017
• MyOntario
• Author: Manuel Stevens,

My Ontario is the Rideau Canal region between Smiths Falls and Kingston. Having spent many years as the planner for the Rideau Canal – and...

• 17 Feb 2017
• Expanding the narrative
  MyOntario
• Author: Beth Hanna,

Stories are powerful. They reveal our values, pleasures and memories, the rituals and rhythms of our lives, our spiritual natures, our creative selves, our triumphs...

• 17 Feb 2017
• MyOntario
• Author: D'Arcy Jenish,

Our voyage aboard the MV Algomarine began at the Port of Montreal late on a Saturday afternoon in July 2007 and ended early the following...

• 17 Feb 2017
• Indigenous heritage
  MyOntario
• Author: Susan Bryan,

I’m standing on the deck of a small boat, riding the swells of the Nipigon River where it widens into Lake Superior. In front of...

• 17 Feb 2017
• Arts and creativity
  MyOntario
• Author: Thomas H.B. Symons,

Homer Watson’s paintings and drawings captured the spirit of pioneer Ontario much as, in a later generation, the work of the Group of Seven captured...

• 17 Feb 2017
• MyOntario
• Author: Arlene Chan,

Toronto’s Chinatown East has a beautiful gateway – a Chinese architectural tradition first introduced in British Columbia in the 1880s. As a writer and Chinatown...

• 17 Feb 2017
• MyOntario
• Author: Michael Bliss,

I first saw the Camp Ahmek waterfront on Canoe Lake in Algonquin Park in 1951. I saw it again last summer – 65 years later...

• 17 Feb 2017
• Arts and creativity
  MyOntario
• Author: Todd Stewart,

I feel the deepest connection with a place when I’m alone in it, surrounded by silence, the rest of the world far away. The stillness...

• 17 Feb 2017
• MyOntario
• Author: Kathleen Wynne,

Ontario is Canada’s largest and most diverse province – home to ingenuity, inclusiveness and optimism. Our province’s 150th birthday is a chance to reflect on...

• 17 Feb 2017
• Black heritage
  MyOntario
• Author: Karolyn Smardz Frost,

In 1985, the Toronto school board and Ontario’s culture ministry created the Archaeological Resource Centre. There, schoolchildren and volunteers could dig into their own city’s...

• 17 Feb 2017
• MyOntario
• Author: The Honourable James K. Bartleman,

Every evening when I was a kid in the 1940s, I’d manoeuvre rough logs up onto a sawhorse and use a small bucksaw to cut...

• 17 Feb 2017
• Sport heritage
  MyOntario
• Author: Philip Pritchard,

Hockey is Canada’s national sport, and there is nothing more synonymous with hockey than the Stanley Cup. The tradition, the aura and the respect it...

• 17 Feb 2017
• Black heritage
  MyOntario
• Author: Dr. Afua Cooper,

Peggy Pompadour haunts me. I walk through the streets of Ye Olde Towne Toronto and I feel her presence – this Black enslaved woman who...

• 17 Feb 2017
• MyOntario
• Author: Paul Yee,

I am inspired by something intangible: the past, especially the history of Chinese Canadians. I grew up in Vancouver, knowing little about it. But once...

• 17 Feb 2017
• Natural heritage
  MyOntario
• Author: Michael Runtz,

Being a lifelong naturalist whose goal has been to explore Ontario’s natural history, I’ve come to appreciate just how rich this province’s biodiversity is. The...

• 01 Feb 2017
• MyOntario
• Author: Sam Steiner,

As a historian of Mennonites in Ontario, I have always enjoyed wandering through Mennonite and Amish cemeteries. Whether plain Old Order Amish or Old Order...

• 09 Oct 2015
• Archaeology
• Author: Dr. Robert I. MacDonald,

While buildings are among the most visible elements of heritage landscapes, they are frequently like the tip of the proverbial iceberg, associated with vast underground...

• 09 Oct 2015
• Archaeology
• Author: Patryk Weglorz,

Online Archaeological Institute of America Canadian Archaeological Association Canadian Conservation Institute Canadian Museum of History Council for North Eastern Historical Archaeology (CNEHA) Historic England Huronia...

• 09 Oct 2015
• Archaeology
• Author: Dr. Neal Ferris, Dr. Rhonda Bathurst, Michael Carter and Namir Ahmed,

Archaeology has a long history of turning to new technologies to advance the pursuit of understanding our ancient past. From measuring the decay of carbon...

• 09 Oct 2015
• Archaeology
• Author: Archaeology Program Unit at the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport,

Archaeology is an important part of the planning and development process in Ontario. Each year, thousands of archaeological assessments are completed by licensed archaeologists to...

• 09 Oct 2015
• Archaeology
• Author: Dr. Alicia Hawkins,

Huronia – the point of land jutting out into the southern end of Georgian Bay – has caught the imagination of historians and archaeologists for...

• 09 Oct 2015
• Archaeology
• Author: Lena Rye,

On a July morning in 2010, an 11-year-old girl arrived at Toronto’s Spadina House. Excited and only slightly scared, she wondered what the next two...

• 09 Oct 2015
• Archaeology
• Author: Martha Latta, Richard Zane Smith and Michel Savard,

Every archaeological artifact tells its own unique story. But what it says can be – and is – interpreted differently, depending on who is examining...

• 09 Oct 2015
• Archaeology
• Author: Ron Williamson,

What is archaeology? This may seem like a straightforward question, but you would be surprised with the answers that Canadians give to this question. In...

• 05 Dec 2014
• Archaeology
  Buildings and architecture
• Author: Dena Doroszenko and Romas Bubelis,

When the Trust conserves a property as complex as Macdonell-Williamson House, we consider a variety of perspectives related to the site as an artifact –...

• 15 Feb 2013
• Archaeology
  Arts and creativity
• Author: Katherine McIntyre,

Reprinted with permission (Windspeaker, Volume 28, Issue 4, 2010) North America’s largest collection of petroglyphs remained undisturbed for centuries. Then in 1954, three geologists out...

• 10 Nov 2011
• Black heritage
  Archaeology
• Author: Dena Doroszenko,

Many have forgotten how influential Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin was at the time of its 1852 publication. It was a catalyst for...

• 31 May 2011
• Archaeology
  Tools for conservation
• Author: Dena Doroszenko,

As population growth results in substantial impact to Ontario’s landscapes, efficient and cost-effective methods to locate, map and acquire information from archaeological sites are needed...

• 11 Feb 2010
• Indigenous heritage
  Archaeology
• Author: Robert Pearce,

Southwestern Ontario has an extremely rich and diverse cultural history dating back 11,000 years. We can follow human history and settlement through archaeology in this...

• 10 May 2007
• Archaeology
  Natural heritage
• Author: Dena Doroszenko and Sean Fraser,

Identifying and protecting places in our communities that have cultural heritage value is an important part of managing change. Heritage buildings, archaeological sites and cultural...

• 15 Feb 2007
• Archaeology
  Cultural objects
• Author: Dena Doroszenko,

In a wooded area near Coldwater, an archaeological site known as Thomson-Walker lies beneath the forest floor. The property on which the site is situated...

• 07 Sep 2006
• Archaeology
• Author: Dena Doroszenko,

Built in Perth in 1823, Inge-Va represents one of the finest Neo-Classical Georgian houses in Eastern Ontario. In its refined, park-like setting, the house also...

• 16 Feb 2006
• Archaeology
  Buildings and architecture
  Cultural objects
  Tools for conservation
• Author: Romas Bubelis,

Wallpapers first appeared in Canada as early as the mid-17th century. These oldest papers were block-printed, hand-painted or stenciled. Pattern and colour was applied to...

• 16 Feb 2006
• Archaeology
  Buildings and architecture
• Author: Ontario Heritage Trust,

It was announced on December 21, 2005 that the site of Ontario’s first parliament buildings in Toronto has been saved. The Ontario Government, in partnership...

• 16 Feb 2006
• Archaeology
  Cultural objects
  Tools for conservation
• Author: Dena Doroszenko,

Reesor live on a property near Bass Lake, Ontario that is protected by an Ontario Heritage Trust natural heritage easement. They lovingly care for this...

• 08 Sep 2005
• Archaeology
  Buildings and architecture
• Author: Dena Doroszenko,

Built in 1817, Macdonell-Williamson House in eastern Ontario reflects the ambitions and aspirations of retired fur trader, John Macdonell. His life was fraught with financial...