Memorable Manitobans: Historical Buildings Committee / Historical Buildings and Resources Committee

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This group of advisors to the Winnipeg city council, known originally as the Historical Buildings Committee, was renamed the Historical Buildings and Resources Committee in 2014.

Chairs

Period	Chair
1979	June Alwyn Westbury (1921-2004)
1979	A. M. Nixon - Acting
1980-1988	William Franklin Wymark “Bill” Neville (1940-2024)
1989	George E. Marshall
1990	Mike O'Shaughnessy
1991-1998	Glen Murray
1999	Mike O'Shaughnessy
1999-2018	Jenny Gerbasi
2018-2022	John Orlikow
2022-?	Jason Schreyer

Members

Member	Representing	Period
Susan Algie	Parks Canada (alternate)	1991-1995
	Parks Canada	1995-2000
A. Balsillie	City of Winnipeg	1981
Shannon Baxter	Manitoba Association of Landscape Architects	2014-2015
Jeff Browaty	City of Winnipeg	2010, 2015-2018
Bernard Brown (1931-2012)	Province of Manitoba (alternate)	1983-1984
Glen Brown	Manitoba Historical Society (alternate)	1994-1995
Ian Clarke	Parks Canada (alternate)	1979
Robert Coutts	Parks Canada	1995-2000
Peter De Smedt	City of Winnipeg	2001-2003
Peter Diamant	Province of Manitoba	1979-1983
	City of Winnipeg (alternate)	1991
Eric Lyle Dick	Parks Canada (alternate)	1980-1985
	Parks Canada	1986-1990
Shawn Dobson	City of Winnipeg	2022
Ashleigh Drewett-Laird	Manitoba Historical Society (alternate)	2001-2013
	Member-at-Large	2014-2016
Neil Einarson	Province of Manitoba (alternate)	1979-1984
	Province of Manitoba	1984-2018
James Arthur “Jim” Ernst	City of Winnipeg	1979-1980
Scott Fielding	City of Winnipeg	2007
David Firman	Province of Manitoba (alternate)	1987-2010
Jeff Gauley	Province of Manitoba (alternate)	2012-2013
	Province of Manitoba	2014-2022
Giovanni Geremia	Manitoba Association of Architects (alternate)	1990-1995
Randy Gilbart	Manitoba Association of Architects (alternate)	1985-1989
	Manitoba Association of Architects	1990-1995
Allan Richard “Al” Golden (1946-2022)	City of Winnipeg (alternate)	1993-2000
Gordon Goldsborough	Member-at-Large	2017-2019
Joyce Goodhand	Manitoba Historical Society (alternate)	1998-2000
Robert Gregoire	Manitoba Association of Architects (alternate)	1981-1982
	Manitoba Association of Architects	1983-1989
Glen Gross	Manitoba Association of Architects (alternate)	2007-2013
	Manitoba Association of Architects	2014-2022
Philip Neal “Phil” Haese (1932-2015)	Manitoba Historical Society (alternate)	1989-1993
	Manitoba Historical Society	1994-1998
Marshall Ernest Haid (1937-2012)	Manitoba Association of Architects	1980-1982
	Manitoba Association of Architects (alternate)	1983-1984
Gail Elizabeth Parvin Hammerquist (1937-1994)	Parks Canada (alternate)	1982-1990
	Parks Canada	1991-1994
Paula Havixbeck	City of Winnipeg	2010-2011
Gary Hawthorne	Manitoba Association of Architects	2019-2022
T. Heggie	Parks Canada	1979-1985
David Hems	Parks Canada (alternate)	2007-2009
	Parks Canada	2010-2012
David Henderson	Province of Manitoba	1990-1991
Sandra Hollender	Parks Canada (alternate)	2012
	Parks Canada	2013-2022
Sandy Hyman	City of Winnipeg (alternate)	1992
Joyce Irvine	Manitoba Historical Society (alternate)	1982-1984
	Manitoba Historical Society	1984-1988
Peter Kaufmann	City of Winnipeg	1992
Elisabeth Maria “Els” Kavanagh (?-2021)	Manitoba Historical Society (alternate)	1985-1988
	Manitoba Historical Society	1989
Andrea Kennedy	Manitoba Association of Landscape Architects	2015
David Kressock	Manitoba Association of Architects (alternate)	1996
	Manitoba Association of Architects	1997-2018
David Lettner	Province of Manitoba (alternate)	1987-1988
	Province of Manitoba	1989
Joe Leven	Member-at-Large	2019-2022
Mark Lubosch	City of Winnipeg	1997
George E. Marshall	City of Winnipeg (alternate)	1988
	City of Winnipeg	1990
Brian Mayes	City of Winnipeg	2019
John Douglas McFarland (?-2022)	Province of Manitoba	1979-1983
Gloria Mendelson	City of Winnipeg	1991
Tom Monteyne	Manitoba Association of Architects (alternate)	2004-2007
Marty Morantz	City of Winnipeg	2014-2015
Glen Murray	City of Winnipeg	1990
William Franklin Wymark “Bill” Neville (1940-2024)	City of Winnipeg	1989
Edwin Cleland “Ed” Nix (1907-2003)	Manitoba Historical Society	1979-1984
Mike O'Shaughnessy	City of Winnipeg (alternate)	1988
	City of Winnipeg	1993-1995
Mike Pagtakhan	City of Winnipeg	2003-2004
Peter Pratt	Manitoba Association of Architects (alternate)	1979
Fred Pritchard	Province of Manitoba (alternate)	1979-1981
Helen Mitchell Promislow (1924-1993)	City of Winnipeg	1986-1988
Eveline Marie Bisson “Evelyne” Reese (1932-2024)	City of Winnipeg (alternate)	1990
George Francis Worthy Reynolds (1904-1995)	Manitoba Historical Society (alternate)	1979
Vivian Santos	City of Winnipeg	2018-2019
Jason Schreyer	City of Winnipeg	2020-2022
Linda Seyers	Parks Canada	2000-2006
Devi Sharma	City of Winnipeg	2014-2018
Amaro Silva	City of Winnipeg	1996
Alf Skowron	City of Winnipeg	1983
Harvey Smith (1936-2017)	City of Winnipeg	1982
	City of Winnipeg (alternate)	2001-2014
Kent Smith	Province of Manitoba (alternate)	1985-1986
Lynn Soens	Member-at-Large	2021-2022
M. Soucy	Parks Canada (alternate)	1980-1982
Nicola Spasoff	Province of Manitoba	2017-2022
Thomas Steen	City of Winnipeg (alternate)	2011-2014
Garth Steek	City of Winnipeg	1999-2000
Gord Steeves	City of Winnipeg (alternate)	2010-2011
Harold Taylor	City of Winnipeg	1984-1985
Greg Thomas	Parks Canada (alternate)	2002-2006
	Parks Canada	2007-2011
Jeffrey Thorsteinson	Member-at-Large	2017-2020
	Parks Canada	2021-2022
W. A. Tolboom	Manitoba Historical Society (alternate)	1981
Claudette Toupin	Province of Manitoba (alternate)	1990-1991
Susan Turner	Manitoba Association of Architects (alternate)	1997-2003
Daniel “Dan” Vandal	City of Winnipeg	1998, 2008-2009
Jim Wagner	Parks Canada (alternate)	2011-2013
	Parks Canada	2014-2020
Peter Walton	Province of Manitoba (alternate)	1983-1984
	Province of Manitoba	1984-1988
John Wells	Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Manitoba	2014-2022
John White	Manitoba Historical Society (alternate)	1989
	Manitoba Historical Society	1990-1993
Christine Wilson-MacLeod	Manitoba Association of Landscape Architects	2015-2022
Tim Worth	Manitoba Historical Society (alternate)	1996-1997
	Manitoba Historical Society	1998-2013
	Member-at-Large	2014-2015
Russ Wyatt	City of Winnipeg (alternate)	2004-2005, 2009-2010

Staff

Staff	Position	Period
Thalia Andreoglou	Historical Buildings Officer	2016-2018
Evelyn Bagel	Secretary / Clerk	1992-2005
Steve Barber	Advisor	1985-1987
Shelley Bruce	Historical Buildings Officer	2001, 2003-2007
Giles Bugailiskis	Planner Trainee	1984-1986
	Historical Buildings Officer	1987-1992
	Heritage Planner	1992-1998
	Senior Planner (Heritage)	1998-2011
Lee Caldwell	Historical Buildings Officer	2002-2003
Sarah Carter	Research Consultant	1989
Maria Fajardo	Recording Secretary	2007-2009
Sheila Grover	Research Consultant	1985-1987, 1989
Jennifer Hansell	Historical Buildings Officer	2007-2014
Dianne Himbeault	Urban Design Coordinator	2006
Deborah Lyon	Research Consultant	1988-2000
Gordon Menzies	Historical Buildings Officer	2019-2022
Mae Morgan	Secretary	1985-1991
Carol Pellan	Secretary	1992
Murray Peterson	Research Consultant	1988-2003
	Historical Buildings Officer	2005-2024
Rina Ricci	Heritage Planner	2014-2024
Randolph Richard “Randy” Rostecki	Research Consultant	1991-1993
Olia Skala	Research Consultant	1997-2003
Barry A. Yanchyshyn	Advisor	1987-1993
Kathryn Young	Research Consultant	1987-1988

Sources:

The Year Past, The Annual Report of the Historical Buildings and Resources Committee, City of Winnipeg.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 25 December 1984

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