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Annual meetings provide the primary opportunity for Alliance members to gather and exchange information and views with professional colleagues and friends in a casual atmosphere. The annual meetings are informal, with a themed program that spotlights the host community's environment through tours and presentations by participants and invited speakers.

The Alliance holds its meetings in diverse historic places to explore and understand topical issues. The Alliance continues to seek out places that will offer a stimulating experience for participants.


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Competing Values?
 Balancing Heritage and Environment
The 30th Annual Conference of the Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation

Earlier this year, we promised that the Alliance would undertake one of the most compelling and engaging gatherings in its 30-year history.  In late May we think we delivered on that promise!  Thank you Montreal!  And thank you delegates!!  You contributed to the largest gathering of Alliance members ever on the occasion of its milestone anniversary!!!  Through the presentation of papers and field sessions, we looked at balancing and integrating heritage conservation practices and historic preservation treatments with environmentally-sustainable activities.

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2008 conference group photo

The conference began with the traditional ‘round table’ at the Chateau Versailles Hotel on the Wednesday evening.  It provided a suitable warm-up for the days to come.

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Round Table
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Round Table

Thursday morning found us at the Masonic Temple near to the hotel where the theme of the conference was introduced.  Ron Williams provided the appropriate introduction to Montreal, and to Canada, by providing examples where good landscape planning and design has resulted in long-term benefits to the respective communities and users. 

Click here for listing papers (pdf)

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Mount Royal Cemetery
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Wendy and Myriam

Following an enthusiastic overview of its unique natural and cultural designation by the Quebec Ministry of Culture (Chantal Grisé, André Chouinard), the group divided into two distinct tours of Mount Royal.  Daniel Chartier led one group up the mountain as only Mr. Olmsted himself would have appreciated.  Wendy Graham and Myriam Cloutier led a second group on a tour of the equally fascinating Mount Royal Cemetery.  When the tours had re-convened at the Smith House, in a valley near the top of the mountain for refreshments, Jean-Francois Hallé of the Friends of the Mountain provided further insight. 

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Holly Dressel
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Redpath Theatre

Once the group had made its way down from the mountain to the campus of McGill University, and the intimate confines of the Redpath Museum, we were inspired by the keynote address of noted cultural historian, journalist, and environmentalist, Holly Dressel. Among her many accomplishments, she co-authored the book, Good News for a Change, with David Suzuki.  Holly took us on an interesting journey across the globe to further our understanding of the importance of prudent environmental practices in all aspects of the work we do.

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Atwater Market
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Lachine Boat Tour
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Pascale Arsenault holding court
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Judith, Caroline et Chantal

Friday morning continued with more papers and was capped off by an overview of the afternoon’s excursion of the Lachine Canal presented by Paul-Emile Cadorette and Pascale Arsenault of Parks Canada.  Following another superb lunch, on our arrival at the canal, Paul-Emile and Pascale guided the terrestrial tours while Caroline Vézina entertained us on the boat explaining conservation challenges associated with the recent chapter in the canal’s long and storied history.

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Jeanne-Mance Park
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A Wet Start!

In spite of the turn in weather on Saturday morning, participants were treated to a tour of one of the liveliest sections of Saint-Laurent Boulevard, a multicultural urban vernacular landscape, led by Catherine Browne and Susan Bronson.  A wander through the streets and lanes of the adjacent Mile End neighbourhood was rewarded with a phenomenal meal at La Khaima, a restaurant serving Mauritanian fare, hosted by the inimitable Atigh!  We will not soon forget the warm hospitality and the delightfully refreshing hibiscus juice.

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La Khaima
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Atigh's Welcome
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Before the Feast!
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Izzy, Susan, Barry

Next, Susan Buggey and Hugh Miller led a retrospective of the Alliance’s accomplishments over the last 30 years at the Mile End Library.  The afternoon concluded with a lively group exchange about the challenges and priorities for the future of the Alliance.

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Mile End Library
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30th Year Retrospective
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An Attentive Crowd
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Susan Buggey's Overview

On Saturday evening, we wrapped up the conference with a banquet at the Beaver Lake Pavilion overlooking the Mount Royal Park landscape.  The attentive staff of Le Pavillon served us a memorable five-course meal which boasted the best of Quebec’s fine cuisine.  With wishes of gratitude extended to all present and ice cider toasts hoisted in the name of the Alliance, we bid adieu to the stimulating City of Montreal and set our sights on St. Louis in 2009.

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Susan Buggey, original founding member
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John and Susan

Susan D. Bronson and John E. Zvonar

Co-chairs, AHLP2008

 


Sponsorship Opportunities

Interested in a Conference Sponsorship? 

Organizations, firms and individuals are invited to be part of the 30th Alliance Annual Meeting in Montréal. The conference brings together participants from across Canada and the United States and is a forum for discussions on all aspects of historic landscape preservation.  

You can sponsor a coffee break, lunch or a tour which will take place throughout the four day conference.  A range of funding opportunities exists for your support.  Each contributing sponsor will be recognized on the website, listed in the delegates’ packages and announced at the event itself.

Please choose your preferred event/activity:

Donation $100.00
Refreshment Breaks     $200.00
Lunch – Thursday, Friday or Saturday     $500.00
Opening Reception or Evening Reception          $1000.00
Closing Banquet $1500.00
Alliance Student Scholarship Endowment Campaign   $2,500.00 and up


For more information contact Wendy Shearer at wshearer@on.aibn.com.

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Student Scholarship Fund

Student Scholarships
In order to cover the cost of registration at its Annual Meetings, the Alliance's Scholarship Committee makes available at least one student scholarship. Students must be either upper level undergraduate students (4th or 5th year) or a graduate student in the fields of landscape or architectural preservation (technology, planning, history/theory, conservation and ecology), cultural geography, anthropology, horticulture, rural landscape protection or land use law. Scholarships will pay conference registration fees but will not cover transportation, lodging or meals other than those provided with the registration fee.

See Student Scholarship Application (pdf).

Alliance Annual Meetings are held in historic settings in the U.S. or Canada. Typical gatherings include presentations, collegial discussions and guided field tours of sites that demonstrate current practices, issues, and dilemmas in cultural landscape preservation. Since meetings are usually small (20-40 professionals), participants have ample opportunities for networking, discussion, and consideration of real problems in all aspects of landscape preservation practice.

Contributions?
The Alliance seeks contributions for the AHLP Student Scholarship Fund at these levels of support:

  • $500 Jens Jensen level
  • $250 Beatrix Farrand level
  • $100 John Charles Olmsted level
  • $50 J.B. Jackson level
Make checks out to the Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation and mail to:

Nancy Brown (American delegates)
AHLP Treasurer John Milner Associates, Inc.
300 West Main Street, Ste. 201
Charlottesville, VA 22903

Wendy Shearer (Canadian delegates)
173 Woolwich Street,  Guelph,  Ontario   N1H 3V4

Student Scholarships for Montreal 2008
The Alliance Scholarship Committee urges students and faculty mentors in disciplines related to landscape preservation to apply for a 2008 Scholarship to attend the upcoming joint professional meetings in Montreal. The Alliance will celebrate 30 years of service to its mission. 

Student scholarship recipients will be required to present their preservation-related studies as part of the 2008 Poster Session.  Students and faculty may also submit abstracts for paper presentations as part of the Call for Papers for the 2008 meeting.  For more information, contact:

Anne Hoover (American students)
anne_hoover@att.net

Achim Jankowski (Canadian students)
 a_jankowski@sympatico.ca
 

Past Scholarship Recipients

2008
The following abstracts were written by our student scholarships recipient for the 2008 annual meeting held in Montreal.


2007
The following abstract was written by our student scholarship recipient for the 2007 annual meeting held at the University of Georgia.


2006
The following abstract was written by our student scholarship recipient for the 2006 annual meeting held in Nova Scotia.


2005
The following abstracts were written by our student scholarship recipients for the 2005 annual meeting held in Boulder, Colorado.


2004
The following abstracts were written by our student scholarship recipients for the 2004 annual meeting held in Sonoma Valley, California.



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