Re-viewing the Landscape of Mount Royal

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1 Re-viewing the Landscape of Mount Royal Workshop / Public Conference JOHN E. ZVONAR Conservation Landscape Architect November 2010

2 Cultural Landscape Types (UNESCO) Designed Organically evolved - relict - continuing Associative

3 Knowledge / Tools: Evaluation Process 1. Understand the site 2. Review all the heritage values assigned to the site 3. Identify heritage values and character-defining elements that will be impacted. 4. Consult cultural specialists if required

4 Knowledge / Tools: Evaluation Process 5. Determine Primary Treatment 6. Review Standards 7. Review Guidelines 8. Evaluate proposed intervention 9. Undertake the intervention

5 Understanding the Cultural Landscape Primary Source: Commemorative Integrity Statement for the NHSC Secondary Sources: HSMBC Agenda Paper for site FHBRO Papers (for designated buildings if applicable) Historic Landscape Conservation Study (if prepared for site)

6 Determining Primary Treatment Which of the three possible primary treatment types best describes the proposed intervention? Preservation Rehabilitation Restoration

7 Reviewing the Applicable Standards Preservation: Relevant Standards (of nine in total) 1. Conserve the heritage value of a historic place. 2. Conserve changes to a historic place which have become character-defining elements in their own right. 3. Conserve heritage value by adopting an approach calling for minimal intervention. Rehabilitation: Relevant Standards 11. Conserve the heritage value and character-defining elements when creating any new additions. 12. Create any new additions so that the essential form and integrity of a historic place will not be impaired if the new work is removed.

8 Evolving Cultural Landscapes Standard 11: Conserve the heritage value and character-defining elements when creating any new additions to a historic place or any related new construction. Make the new work physically and visually compatible with, subordinate to and distinguishable from the historic place.

9 Follow the Landscape Guidelines Land Patterns Viewscapes Landforms Circulation Spatial Organization Water Features Vegetation Built Features

10 Bowring Park, St. John s, Newfoundland

11 Point Pleasant Park, Halifax, Nova Scotia

12 Garden of the Provinces, Ottawa

13 Assiniboine Park, Winnipeg, Manitoba

14 Wascana Centre, Regina, Saskatchewan

15 Wascana Centre, Regina, Saskatchewan

16 Stanley Park, Vancouver, B.C.

17 Stanley Park, Vancouver, B.C.

18 Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa

19 Central Experimental Farm NHSC Designated as a cultural landscape reflecting the 19thcentury philosophy of agriculture - carefully integrates an administrative core with arboretum, ornamental gardens, display beds and experimental fields in a picturesque composition

20 Since its establishment in 1886, the farm has made significant scientific contributions to agriculture in Canada by uniting scientific experimentation with practical verification

21 A rare example of a farm within a city, the Farm has become a symbol of the central role agriculture has played in shaping the country.

22 CEF Management Plan: Vision Statement To sustain a cultural landscape of national historic significance through a reinvigorated, ongoing agricultural research program.

23 CEF Management Plan Research Option The subject matter of agricultural research will change in unpredictable ways over the next century, but the CEF framework will remain flexible and adaptable to varying research initiatives as it has since its inception.

24 Halifax Public Gardens in the Wake of Hurricane Juan Using Commemorative Integrity to Assess Surviving Values

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26 National Historic Site Designation The Halifax Public Gardens are commemorated as a rare surviving example of a Victorian public garden.

27 Hurricane Juan: 29 September 2003

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29 An Outpouring of Community Support

30 Impact of Hurricane Juan? The assessment focused on the identification of surviving physical elements in order to understand the scale of loss, damage and survival: intact, destroyed or remediable?

31 In situ Resources Plant Material Physical Resources and their Values at the time of Designation In Situ Resources Plant Material Value lies in: wide variety of domestic and exotic, semitropical, flowering, variegated foliage, curiosities, appeal to bird life Impact of Hurricane Approx. 54 large and another 20 smaller trees destroyed; another 12 may have to be removed Intact, Destroyed or Remediable Remediable by replacement with suitable species

32 In situ Resources Water Features & Associated Elements Physical Resources and their Values at the time of Designation In Situ Resources Water Features & their Assoc d Elements Value lies in: design and placement of water features such as Griffin s Pond, the watercourse with gates and walls, waterfowl house, and lighthouse Impact of Hurricane Some trees have fallen into the water; otherwise, no impact on resources Intact, Destroyed or Remediable Some cleanup required; otherwise intact

33 The Rehabilitation

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