Ken Storie

I have prepared over 100 reports for the Historic Places Initiative, a National program documenting Canada's Municipal, Provincial and Federal Heritage Sites.

Special Places Projects were developed by the Historic Resources Branch as a method of creating Community Inventories of Heritage Resources and subjecting the sites to an analysis process that will help communties protect and use their heritage resources to best advantage. I piloted the first projects in 5 communities in 2008. As of 2011 I have produced Special Places Projects for 14 Urban and Rural Communities in Manitoba.

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Such projects will use the process developed for Special Places Projects with the focus being on People as opposed to Buildings. The result will be a comprehensive documentation of the forces and events that make each community unique. We have completewd Notable People Projects in Hartney, Melita, Wawanesa and the R.M's. of Argyle and Pipestone

Pivotal Events Projects aims to identify and explore the main themes in a community's history and produce an illustrated Time Line that will help communities recognize, explore, celebrate and promote the heritage assets that every community has. We have completed such projects in Rivers / Daly, and Hartney.

Here our aim is to identify resouces that will assist teachers in their efforts to incorporate local history into their prgrams. The result is a binder with a collection of maps, photos, documents along with suggestions for use. The project is a link between the school system, the local museum and the heritage projects a community has completed.

As consultant to the The Virden Heritage District Project I have completed the research and analysis of the buildings in Virden's proposed Heritage District and produced the Heritage Values Statements and related documents required for the first stage of the designation process. Virden will be the the second Manitoba town to designate a Local Heritage District. See news reports.

A Guide to: Heritage Projects in Manitoba: Heritage Management Resources : Local History Resources