Harold D. Kalman, Ph.D., is principal of the Vancouver office of Commonwealth. He is a specialist in the planning and history of heritage and cultural resources. Raised in Montreal, he received his education at Princeton University and had additional training in conservation at Cornell University and York University (England). He taught at the University of British Columbia for seven years before entering private practice in 1975. He is Chair of the Vancouver Heritage Commission, has served on the boards of the Association for Preservation Technology and ICOMOS-Canada, and was the founding president of the Canadian Association of Professional Heritage Consultants. Kalman is the author (or co-author) of many standard texts on conservation and architecture, including A History of Canadian Architecture, Exploring Vancouver, Exploring Ottawa, Reviving Main Street, Principles of Heritage Conservation, The Evaluation of Historic Buildings, The Sensible Rehabilitation of Older Houses, Encore: Recycling Public Buildings for the Arts, and Pioneer Churches.
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Meg Stanley, M.A., Commonwealth's senior historian, joined Commonwealth in 1990, after graduating from the Public History program at the University of Western Ontario, where she specialized in Canadian history. She participates in Commonwealth's work in resource assessment, heritage tourism, and museum planning, with general responsibility for historical contextual reports and heritage resource inventories. In 1999, she participated as a Fellow at the Institute for Public History Interpretation (New York Council for the Humanities/American History Workshop). She has served as the Chair of the Collections Management Committee of the Britannia Heritage Shipyard Society and was previously employed at the Woodstock Museum and Oxford Historical Society in Woodstock. Stanley's publications include Man's Efforts to Control Erosion at Point Pelee National Park for Parks Canada (co-author); two articles in Using Wilderness: Essays on the Establishment of Children's Camping in Ontario; and 'Stanley Park's Hollow Tree,' in The Beaver, August 1997.
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