SUPPORTERS
UNESCO Victoria World Heritage ProjectUNESCO VICTORIA WORLD HERITAGE PROJECT WORKING GROUP
PROJECT HON. CHAIR:
Hon. Dr. David Anderson PC, OC, OBC
Former MLA, MP, Cabinet Minister (Fisheries, Environment, Heritage, Revenue etc.)
WORKING GROUP MEMBERS:
Marie Elliott M.A.
Historian and author, special interest in BC Goldrush & Women’s history
Winifred Grey, and Gold in British Columbia
Douglas Franklin M.A.
Senior Executive Officer, National Trust for Canada (ret.)
Chris Gower AIBC, FRAIC, MCIP, RPP
City of Victoria Architect/Planner (ret.)
Chair AIBC, Vancouver Island Chapter
Hamed Yeganeh Ph. D. candidate in Art History and Visual Studies, UVic.
Research Assistant
Ken Johnson B.A., PBD
Heritage Consultant, Pres. Hallmark Society
Lindsay Kaisla M.A.
Design Consultant
David R. Leverton M.A.
Former Exec. Dir. Maritime Museum of British Columbia
Bjorn Simonsen M.A.
British Columbia Provincial Archaeologist and Director, BC Heritage Conservation Branch (ret)
Martin Segger M.Phil. F.R.S.A.
Architectural Historian (Group co-ordinator, pro tem)
UNESCO VICTORIA WORLD HERITAGE PROJECT STEERING GROUP MEMBERS
Steve Barber BES, MEVDS
Senior Heritage Planner, City of Victoria Heritage Planner (ret.)
Prof. Colin Browne M.A.
Emerit. SFU, film historian, film-maker, poet, curator
Richard Collier
Landscape archt. restoration consultant.
*John Dam
Heirtage bulding conservation engineer
Dr. Joy Davis
Historian, heritage consultant, author: Complicated Simplicity: Island Life in the Pacific Northwest’
Patrick A. Dunae
Archives consultant & public historian
Helen Edwards B.A.
Historian, heritage research consultant, author: A History of Professional Hockey in Victoria, etc.
Charles T. Elliott (Temosen), RCAA, OBC.
T’sartlip Knowledge Keeper, artist
Dr. Marie-Claire Cordonier Gehring
Universities of Cambridge and Waterloo,
International Legal Counsel pro bono
Rick Goodacre
CEO Heritage BC (ret.)
Dr. James Hoffman
Emeritus Prof. Thompson Rivers University, B. C. Theatre History & Archives
Barrie Hewsten
President West Coast Capital Real Estate (ret.) & Union Club of British Columbia liason
Lucas Hung
UVic Student, Heritage Youth advocate
Jennifer Iredale M.Sc. Historic Preservation
Director, B.C. Heritage Branch (ret.)
Dr. Ben Isitt LLB
Historian, Victoria Council, author: Militant Minority: British Columbia Workers and the Rise of a New Left
Dr. Harold Kalman CM, PhD, LLD
Professor, consultant (Commonwealth Heritage) author, History of Canadian Architecture (Oxford), etc. and recently BC Rep, National Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.
*Bruce Kilpatrick E.D.
Communications U.Vic. (Ret.)
Prof. Alastair Kerr M.A.
Historic preservation consultant and visiting professor, Hong Kong University
Michael Layland
Historian, specialist in exploration and early cartography of Vancouver Island, author: The Land of Heart’s Delight, A Perfect Eden, In Nature’s Realm
Donald Luxton FRAIC, CAHP
Donald Luxton & Assoc. Cultural resource management, author: Building the West
Don Lovell CD, MArch
Archiitect (ret.) Historian, Chair, Friends of Hatley Park
*Maeve Lyddon
Director, Liv-Lab, UVic.
Dr. Richard Mackie
Editor, Ormsby Review
Historian, British Columbia history
John MacFarlaine
BC Nautical History Group
Pamela Madoff
Historian, City of Victoria council member (ret), BOD, Victoria Civic Heritage Trust
Keith McCallion
Principal Victoria High School (ret.)
Past President, VHS Alumni Assn.
Andrea Mitchell
Parks Canada, Victoria
Gary Mitchell M.A.S.
Provincial Archivist (ret.)
Honorary Club Archivist and Historian, Union Club of British Columbia
Fern Perkins
Historian, B.C. Metis Nation
Paul Sachachter
BC Black Awareness Society
Andrew Rushforth P. Eng.
BOD Victoria Heritage Foundation
Cara Segger
Cultural geographer/ I.T. Project Manager
*Mike Siska
Geotechnical engineer
Grace Wong Sneddon
Cultural Historian, UVic,
Victoria Chinatown Museum Board
Ian Sutherland
Board Member, Victoria Downtown Residents Assn. Old Town Heritage building owner and developer
John Taylor
Architectural photographer, artist
Robert D. Turner M.Sc.
History Curator, RBCM ret.
Author: Those Beautiful Coastal Liners, The Klondike Costal Steamers, etc.
Frederike Verspoor
Archivist, B.C. Archives (ret.)
May Q. Wong
Historian, author: Cowherd in Paradise: From China to Canada… & City in Colour
UNESCO VICTORIA WORLD HERITAGE PROJECT CORRESPONDING OBSERVERS
John Adams: Victoria Chinatown Museum group. Board Secretary, Chinatown Museum Society
Cathy Armstrong: ED, TLC The Land Conservancy of British Columbia
Marianne Alto: City of Victoria Council
Jeff Bray: ED, Downtown Business Association
Karma Brophy: Songhees Tourism Project
David Black: CEO Black Media
*Iain Bourhill: Dir. Community Planning, Colwood
Frank Bourree: Chair, South Island Prosperity Partnership Board
Judy Brownoff: Saanich Municipal Council
Natalie Bull: CEO, National Trust for Canada
Senator Patricia Bovey FRSA: Senate of Canada
Kathryn Bridge: Historian
Jerymy Brownridge: Private Secretary to the Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia
Dr. Christina Cameron: Director General National Historic Sites (ret.) & Chair, UNESCO World Heritage Committee member (ret.)
Christina Clarke: CEO Songhees Development Corporation
Chris Coleman: City of Victoria Councillor (ret)
Mel Cooper: past-chair Telus Future Friendly Foundation
Laural Collins: M.P. for Victoria
Jennifer Cousineau: Acting Manager, Archaeological & History Branch, Parks Canada
Paul Crober: Honorary Colonel, Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary’s)
Katie Cummer: Heritage Consultant
Barb DeJardine, Mayor of Esquimalt
Lorne DeLarge: President, McPherson Foundation
Darren Delichte: Delichte Design.
Bradley Dick: artist, Songhees knowledge keeper
Michael Elcock: Cultural tourism consultant
Dr. Phillip SteenKamp: President, Royal Roads University
Rosemary Feenan: EVP Research, QuadReal Property Group
Dr. Cara Gibson: Exec. Dir. Swan Lake Christmas Hill Nature Sanctuary
Pauline Gobeil: Directrice générale / Executive Director, La Société francophone de Victoria
Paul Gravett: CEO Heritage B.C.
D’Arcy Green M.A.: Senior archaeologist. Golder and Associates
Christa Hanson: National Historic Sites and Monuments Parks Canada
Patrick Harriott: Minister of Culture & Language, Metis Nation B.C.
Matthew Holme: Corporate Communications & Destination Management, Tourism Victoria
Karen Hoese: Director, Sustainable Planning & Community Development, City of Victoria
Kate Humble: Western Region Director, Parks Canada
Ryan Hunt: E.D. BC Museums Assn.
Dr. Budd Hall: UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education
Robin Inglis: Historian, CEO North Shore Museum (ret.)
Robert Jawl: Jawl Industries.
John Juricic: Business Consultant
Grant Keddie: archaeology curator, Royal British Columbia Museum
Shannon King: Curator, Fort Rodd Hill
Judy Kitts: First Nations Engagement Manager, Harbour Authority
Dr. E. Brent Lane: Fellow Global Economics Inst., University of North Carolina
Chris Lefevre: CEO Le Fevre & Co.
Richard Linzey UKRA: Director, British Columbia Heritage Branch
Fank Leonard: Frank Leonard & Associates
Prof. Jack Lohman CBE: former CEO, Royal British Columbia Museum
Phil Lambert: Victoria Natural History Society
James Lee, C.A.: Heritage House owner
Grace Lore, MLA: Victoria-Beacon Hill
Alan Lowe: Archt. Chair, Chinatown Museum Association
Jeremy Loveday: City of Victoria Council
Dr. John Lutz: Chair: Dept. History, University of Victoria
John Mac Farlaine: B.C. Nautical History Group
*Colin Maclock: designer, model builder
Silvia Mangue: BC Black History Awareness Society
Rob Martin: Mayor of Colwood
Andrew Mason: Archaeologist, Pincipal, Golder Associates.
Joan Mason: Technical editor
Marcus Milright: Art History Professor, UVic.
Gene Miller: Centre for Urban Innovation; columnist, Focus Magazine
Andrea Mitchell: Fort Rodd Hill National Park, Colwood.
Sherry Mitchell: Coordinator, Metis Nation of Greater Victoria
Dr. Tim Moonen: The Business of Cities
Ry Moran: UVic Assoc. Librarian Reconciliation
Tania Muir: UVic Cultural Resources, Management Programme
Kevin Murdoch: Mayor of Oak Bay
Paul Nursey: CEO: Destination Greater Victoria
Stefan and Magda Opalski: Wentworth Villa Architectural Heritage Museum
John O’Reilly: Heritage Planner, City of Victoria
Adam Olsen: MLA Saanich North & Gulf Islands.
Bob Peart: biologist, Nature Canada, board chair
Dr. John Price: UVic historian (ret.)
Sherri Robinson: Esquimalt Archives.
Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross: UVic historian
Prof. Andrew Petter, C.M., Q.C.
President Emeritus, SFU
Aaron Parker: Principal, Victoria High School
Sara Potts: Victoria City Council
Murray Rankin: MLA Oak Bay-Gordon Head
Nichola Reddington: Arts, Culture and Events, City of Victoria
Ron Rice: Director, Victoria Native Friendship Centre
Ian Robertson: CEO Victoria Harbour Authority
Dr. Patrica Roy: Professor Emeritus, History, University of Victoria
Paul Sachachter: Black History Awareness Society
Laura Saretsky: Heritage Planner, City of Victoria
Jaques Sirois: Greater Victoria Naturehood
Graeme Sykes: B.C. Real Estate Management Manager, group
Robert Thomas, Chief, Esquimalt Nation Council.
Dr. Robina Thomas: UVic Associate V.P. Indigenous
Charlayne Thornton-Joe: Victoria City Council
Roger Tinney, Manager, Stewardship & Historic Places, B.C. Heritage Branch
Catherine Umland: Victoria Civic Heritage Trust
Nathalie Vallieres: Secretariate, Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.
Brittany Vis: ED British Columbia Maritime Museum
Donovan Waters Q.C. F.R.S.C., Prof. Emeritus, Law Faculty, UVic.
Jamie Webb: Chair, Board of the Maritime Museum of British Columbia
Roger Wheelock: International tourism consultant
Kathy Whitcher: Executive Director, Urban Development Institute – Capital Region
Gary Yabsley: Legal Counsel, Esquimalt First Nation
Geoff Young: City of Victoria Council
Yosef Wosk: Professor SFU, philanthropist
EXPERT ADVISORY GROUP MEMBERS
Adolf Sesca: volunteer, Victoria Natural History Society
Allan Collier: historian, author, curator
Allistair Kerr: architectural historian, professor HKU, UVic.
Dr. Barry Gough: historian, author
Bill Hook: historian, horticulturalist
Bjorn Simonsen: archaelogist
Bruce Davies: historian, author, curator
Carey Pallister: historian, archivist
Chris Gower: architect, historian
Chris Petter: historian, archivist
Collin Browne: historian, film maker, SFU professor
Jennifer Cousinea: historian, Parks Canada
Dave Mason: historian, tour guide
Denton Pendergast: historian, curator Harbour History Website
Don Lovell: historian, architect
Donald Luxton: architectural historian, author, consultant
Dorothy Mindenhall: architectural historian
Douglas Franklin: architectural historian
John Lutz: historian, UVic professor, author
Frank Leonard: historian
Patricia Roy: historian, UVic professor, author
Mary Doody Jones: historian
Grant Keddie: archaeologist, RBCM
Hans Roemer: naturalist, Elder: Friends of Ecological Reserves
Harold Kalman: architectural historian, author, UVic professor
Helen Cain: historian, planner
Helen Edwards: historian, author
Ian Baird: historian, author
Jaques Sirois: Greater Victoria Naturehood, Nature Canada
Jennifer Nell Barr: historian author
Jennifer Iredale: historian
Jim Boutilier: historian, professor RRU
John Adams: historian, author
Marie Elliott: historian, author
May Q. Wong: historian, author
Mike Heppell: military historian
Nancy Turner: ethno-botanist, UVic professor
Nick Russell: historian, author
Oluna Sesca: volunteer Victoria Natural History Society
Pamela Madoff: historian, writer
Patrick Dunae: historian, author, professor VIU
Paul Chamberlain: historian, author
Robert Turner: historian RBCM, author
May Q. Wong: historian & author: Cowherd in Paradise: From China to Canada… & City in Colour
UNESCO VICTORIA WORLD HERITAGE PROJECT SPONSORS
UNESCO VICTORIA WORLD HERITAGE PROJECT SPONSORS:
Media Sponsor: Black Press
Local National Historic Sites Coordination: Union Club of British Columbia
UNESCO VICTORIA WORLD HERITAGE PROJECT CULTURAL SPONSORS:
Wentworth Villa Architectural Heritage Museum
Craigdarroch Castle Society