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Appendix 4  Members of the Vancouver Heritage Commission Subcommittee on the Stanley Park Big Hollow Tree:


1
)  (Staff representative) Marco D’Agostini

Senior Heritage Planner, City of Vancouver

(604) 873-7056  Marco.D'Agostini@vancouver.ca


2)  Randolph A. Churchill,
Ph.D. (Engineering)

Project Manager, Macdonald & Lawrence Timber Framing Ltd.

1356 Ball Road, Cobble Hill, BC

(250 ) 743 - 8840      randy@macdonaldandlawrence.ca

Randy coordinates complicated heavy timber design, construction and installation projects.


3)  Julian Dunster
, B.Sc. (Forestry), M.Sc. (Forestry), Ph.D., (Regional Planning and Resource Development)
Registered Professional Forester in British Columbia (# 1708)

Professional Planner, with membership in the Canadian Institute of Planners and the Planning Institute of British Columbia

Certified Arborist with the International Society of Arboriculture (PNW 089)

Registered Consulting Arborist - American Society of Consulting Arborists (RCA # 378)

Certified Tree Risk Assessor # 1. PNW ISA and Lead Instructor in British Columbia
P.O. Box 109, Bowen Island, B.C. Canada. VON 1GO

(604) 947 - 0016  jadunster@gmail.com
Julian has delivered lectures on his work all over the world, with an emphasis on trees and environmental issues, conservation, and designs that will contribute to better environmental awareness. He has served on several Boards of Directors, audit committees, and panels, and has considerable expertise with non-profit groups in the environmental sector, helping them to develop strategies for promoting their goals, and deliver effective critiques and messages. He has published several books and numerous articles. 


4)  Ian Green

President, Greenheart Conservation

(778) 898-9694 ian@greenheart.ca

Greenheart is a world leader in developing, manufacturing and installing forest canopy walkways all around the world.  As such, his firm routinely finds practical methods for managing human safety in civil engineering projects based in, on, and around large trees.  He is currently installing a forest canopy walkway in the forest beside the UBC Botanical Garden.


5) 
(Chair) Karen Jarvis B.A.P. (Bachelor Landscape Architecture),  Dip.T. (Forest Resources Management),  RPF

Professional Forester, Campbell Jarvis Landscape Forestry

c/o  Vancouver Heritage Commission

City of Vancouver

City Clerks Department

453 West 12th Avenue

Vancouver BC V5Y 1V4

bodog@telus.net

Karen specializes in visual resource management / landscape assessment in both urban and forest settings.  She also serves in a volunteer capacity as a Commissioner with the Vancouver Heritage Commission, providing staff and Council with input regarding heritage applications, policy and practice.


6) Harold D. Kalman
, Ph.D., BCAHP
Principal, Commonwealth Historic Resource Management Limited
(604) 734-7505  kalman@chrml.com
Hal is a heritage planner and a principal of Canada's first and largest heritage consulting firm. He is President of the BC Association of Heritage Professionals, the BC member of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada, the former chair of the Vancouver Heritage Commission, and a former board member of the Association for Preservation Technology.


7) R. Bruce Macdonald,
B.A. Sc. (Civil Engineering), P.D.P (School Teaching)

Principal, Living History Historical Research & Consultation

Member, Vancouver Heritage Commission Sub-Committee (reviewing the heritage values of Vancouver's historic places)

1730 William Street, Vancouver, BC V5L 2R4

(604) 251-4222   bruce1m@shaw.ca

Bruce received a major Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council grant at SFU to produce an innovative history of Vancouver, "Vancouver: A Visual History," and works on Vancouver heritage issues. He has an abiding interest in the unique aspects of Vancouver, and first wrote about the Hollow Tree in 1990.


8) Gordon Macdonald

Building Conservator, Macdonald & Lawrence Timber Framing Ltd.

1356 Ball Road, Cobble Hill, BC

(250 ) 743 - 8840   gord@macdonaldandlawrence.ca

Gordon has 20 years of international experience in building conservation and complex timber structures. 


9) Neil A. McPhail
, B.A.Sc. (Mechanical Engineering), M.A.Sc. (Mechanical Engineering), P. Eng. (British Columbia and Ontario, Mechanical Engineering) Financial Engineering Manager, QuIC Financial Technologies Suite 1105, 1095 W. Pender St. Vancouver, BC Canada V6E 2M6

(604) 773-3486 nmcphail@telus.net

At QuIC Neil manages a group of software engineers and mathematicians in the development of software for valuation and risk analysis of complex financial instruments/portfolios. He is also actively consulting in the areas of advanced display technologies, hybrid solar/electric day-lighting and GPS-controlled watercraft. Prior to QuIC, he was Vice President of Engineering for BrightSide Technologies, a successful high-technology startup company purchased by Dolby Laboratories in April 2007.


10) Philip Robbins
B.Ed. (UBC), ECIAD Diploma in Fine Art (Honours), MA from the Royal  College of Art (London)

Instructor, Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design

1399 Johnston Street, Granville Island

Vancouver BC V6H 3R9

Canada

604-327-5011  probbins@eciad.ca

Philip’s work draws on his extensive experience in a range of materials and processes,

including metal, synthetics, and ceramics. His work has shown in Canada and the UK.  He is a former member of the Public Art Advisory Committee for the City of Vancouver, and the District of North Vancouver.


11) Jon Scott,
P.Eng. (Mech Eng - UBC)

Product development consultant - Self-employed

Unit #4, 7 East 6 Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5T 1J3

604-727-0992   jonscottindia@hotmail.com

Jon has worked in optical & mechanical product development for almost 30 yrs, and is inventor or co-inventor on approximately ten patents.


12) Meg Stanley
, BA (Honours History), MA (Public History/Canadian History).
Historian, Commonwealth Historic Resource Management Limited
Vice-Chair, Friends of the City of Vancouver Archives, Member, City of Vancouver Archives Advisory Committee
308-2233 Burrard Street, Vancouver, British Columbia
604 734 7505 meg@chrml.com
Meg Stanley's work in the field of heritage conservation focuses on the intersection of history and the environment, built and natural. Her publications include an article about the Hollow Tree for Canada's national history magazine, The Beaver.


13) Lorne A. Whitehead
, B.Sc. (Honours Physics), M.Sc. (Low Temperature Physics), Ph.D. (Applied Physics), P.Eng. (British Columbia, Electrical Engineering)

Professor and Leader of Education Innovation, University of British Columbia

6224 Agricultural Road, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1

(604) 822-3075  lorne.whitehead@ubc.ca

In his research capacity, Lorne specializes in finding innovative solutions to technical problems, and in his administrative responsibilities he employs the principles of innovation to help make organizational improvements.  Lorne holds over one hundred patents, has launched several successful companies and has served on numerous boards in both the private and non-profit sectors.  His administrative experience includes 10 years as a corporate CEO and 9 years of university administrative experience in positions including Associate Dean, Dean pro tem, and Vice President Academic.  At UBC he also runs a research program for which he holds the 3M Chair in Applied Physics and in this capacity he often collaborates with major companies such as 3M, Philips and Dolby, all of which employ technology that has come from his UBC lab.


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