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Heritage Principles
The following statements, adopted by the Heritage Toronto Board, recognize the essential unity between cultural and natural heritage features (Heritage) and provide a foundation for heritage conservation in the City of Toronto.
Definitions
Heritage may include immovable features in a variety of forms such as:
- structures, including buildings, a group of building, ruins, engineering works and bridges;
- sites including archaeological localities (e.g., the remains of aboriginal villages, camps and early Canadian settlements), battlegrounds, cemeteries, quarries, rock formations, and rare species habitats;
- areas including streetcars, neighbourhoods, gardens, lakes, rivers and other natural, scenic, and cultural landscapes.
Heritage may include movable features, such as:
Queen's York Rangers Brandywine Parade - Old Fort York (100 Garrison Road), September 11th, 2010
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The parade, which commemorates both the Battles of Brandywine and Queenston Heights, is open to the general public.
The parade will feature the Queen's York Rangers, plus the Regimental Pipes, the Flute and Drum Corps, the Old Guard (who parade in the unit's Revolutionary War uniforms), and two Royal Canadian Army Cadet Corps affiliated with the Regiment. There will also be military displays from the present day Rangers, as well as a period show by the Regiment's Old Guard. The Patron of the Parade is the Honourable David C. Onley, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario.
The parade takes place at Old Fort York between 4pm-6:15pm, September 11th, 2010.
Thank you. If you need further information, please contact Honorary Colonel Darrell Bricker, PhD 416-324-2001
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FacebookCultural and Heritage Tourism Symposium 2010- October 5-6, Toronto, ON
The Culture & Heritage Institute hosts a Symposium on Cultural & Heritage Tourism. Fourth year in the running, we are delighted to announce this year's fall Symposium!
"Intercultural Dialogue in Tourism: 2020 Vision" - October 5 and 6, 2010
Venue: TBA (Toronto Area)
This year's theme is dedicated to and in collaboration with UNESCO's International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures and International Year of Biodiversity
It is in this spirit that Centennial College's Culture and Heritage Institute's fourth annual symposium will explore how our knowledge, events, institutions and industries in culture, heritage and tourism can be more effective in facilitating and developing platforms for intercultural dialogue in Canada. Our goal is to explore the challenges and synergies for all three sectors - culture, heritage and tourism - as we engage each topic: China ADS, Panam 2015, Geotourism, Dialogue in Intercultural Dialogue, and Progressive Museology to name a few.
To view detailed Symposium Agenda, please visit: http://www.centennialcollege.ca/chi/symposium/agenda10
Register now to take advantage of our early bird pricing! Register at: http://www.centennialcollege.ca/Default.aspx?DN=d030402c-badb-48c6-95e4-...
Speak Out for Heritage
We Want To Hear Your Views on the State of Heritage for our Mayoral Debate
In August, Heritage Toronto, in partnership with the Toronto Historical Association, will be hosting a mayoral candidates' debate on heritage issues.
In anticipation, we want to hear from all those involved in the heritage community to get your views on the state of heritage preservation in Toronto. Do you think the city's current system provides adequate protection of the city's heritage and, if not, how could it be improved?
We have held several meetings across the city with representatives of historical associations, museum boards, resident groups and others involved in the heritage community. We are now inviting all of our readers to send us your views.
A summary of these consultations will be prepared, and used as background information for the debate. We will also circulate the report to the media.
Introduction to Heritage Spinning at Black Creek Pioneer Village
Spend the day at historic Black Creek Pioneer Village and learn to spin!
Spend the day in one of our historic homes with a costumed instructor and learn how to spin! Mixing history with practical techniques, this workshop will teach participants all the basic skills in the process that turns wool into yarn. Begin by carding wool and then learn about different natural dyes. Next, spin the wool into yarn on both the drop spindle and on an antique treadle spinning wheel. End the day by taking home all the yarn you have spun!
Fee: $150 (includes all materials, taxes and parking fees)
Members Fee: $135
For more information, or to register please call (416) 667-6284
Reginald’s Return: A Comedy of Intrigue
A Play with a Wandering Audience!
Reginald’s Return: A Comedy of Intrigue
A Play with a Wandering Audience
Wednesday July 22 & Thursday July 23, 2009
Doors open at 7:30pm
Performance begins at 8:00pm sharp
Reginald’s sudden return is mysterious. Will he be in time to save his farm from the land-hungry railway developer or will it be gone forever? And where on earth did his wife disappear to?
Watch as the plot unfolds in our candle-lit historic buildings. Enjoy an
evening of Victorian suspense and intrigue followed by a scrumptious 19th
century dessert in our outdoor Event Pavilion.
Ticket prices: Regular: $17.00 • Member: $15.00
For more information and to reserve your seat call: 416 - 667- 6295
Black Creek Pioneer Village thanks Young Canada Works, an initiative of the Department of Canadian Heritage, for their support of this evening's performance.
Celtic Family Garden Party - celebrating 75th Anniversary of O'Connor Estate
Sunday 24 August 2008 family, friends and neighbours are welcome
Sunday, August 24th 2008 from 1 - 4pm at O'Connor Estate located on the grounds of Senator O'Connor College School, 60 Rowena Drive (Victoria Park & Ellesmere area).
Celtic Family Garden Party
Adult $10
Children: a Twoonie
Silent Auction, Prizes, Irish kitchen
Welcome popular entertainer, Hugo Straney together with traditional musicians Loretto Reid and Jim Fay. Irish dancing with Maureen Mulvey-O'Leary
This event is an awareness and fundraiser to save the historic O'Connor Estate/formerly Maryvale Farm --- built in 1933 by Frank O'Connor who founded the Laura Secord Candy company and went on to become Senator O'Connor in 1935.
Tickets and enquiries: Monica 416-498-0227 Christine 416-484-6274 also email: info@irishheritagehouse.com Web: www.irishheritagehouse.com
All are welcome (please consider bringing your own chair)
On Heritage, and other things ‘so yesterday'...
Are we building a shared sense of space and memory today?
I've resisted blogging, preferring to save my ruminations for unsuspecting dinner companions, so this is a first of what I hope will be many, minus the food, but do take it with some wine and a pinch of salt ;-)
I wrote an op-ed piece many, many moons ago, when my head had no salt and only pepper in it, on what I then called the ‘jesus fulcrum'- how a single birthday became the benchmark for how we measure time and history, and how so many different cultures (and faiths) had their own pivots on which they balanced their teetering constructs. At some point one end of the seesaw gets too heavy, and through minor, bloody upheavals, we find a new event to prop it up with for a few more generations.
Unlike in the visual, performing and literary arts, where today is being recorded through the memorable lilt of a figure etched in paint or prose, the shape and form of our cities are left to the ubiquitous imaginings of nobody, leaving nothing of collective value to the future.
Wedded Bliss? A play with a Wandering Audience
An evening of romance and drama followed by a 19th century dessert!
Wedded Bliss?
A Play with a Wandering Audience at Historic Black Creek Pioneer Village
Tuesday July 22, 2008
Doors open: 7:30pm
Play starts: 8pm
An Original Black Creek Pioneer Village Dramatic Performance!
Join us on the evening of July 22, 2008 when Black Creek Pioneer Village will come alive as a theatre with a wandering audience.
Visitors, led by costumed guides, will watch as the courtship of Robert and Katy unfolds in our candle-lit historic buildings.
Robert’s dastardly brother comes to town the night before the wedding. What will Katy do? Choose the charming brother or marry the
staid but financially secure Robert?
TICKETS $12/each
To reserve your ADMISSION please call: 416-667-6295
www.blackcreek.ca
Hip Hub for Hid
The need for history, information and debate
The turnout at Toronto the Good - the annual bash at the Distillery - is a sign that not all is bad in the city. A passion for history, architecture, planning and public space was clearly on display during this Festival of Architecture and Design (fAd) event, thanks to Spacing Magazine and its generous and creative partners. Thinking about an "urban centre," as explained by Shawn Micallef in the Toronto Star, was its theme: creating a place for history, information and debate; a beginning point for telling the story of Toronto.