The annual National Trust Conference is Canada’s largest heritage conservation learning and networking event. Held every year since 1974, the National Trust Conference brings together a wide-range of people working to keep Canada’s heritage alive: from architects and planners, to grassroots activists and elected officials, policy makers, and property owners. Conference themes have tackled pressing issues for Canada’s heritage movement, including adaptive reuse and retrofits, housing and intensification, sustainable development, and climate change.
Canada’s heritage conservation movement is transforming itself to meet new needs in society. Are you on board? Advancing decolonization and anti-racism, leading climate action, and supporting the efforts of grassroots organizations, governments, and the private sector and to address socio-economic challenges are front and centre in our communities. At this watershed moment, the heritage sector has the opportunity to accelerate our benefit to society through transformational changes to our mission and practice, based on a shared vision.
Architects will find rich opportunities for professional development with 3 tracks of concurrent sessions on the following themes:
• Economic Reset – Removing Systemic Barriers to Building Reuse & Empowering Conservation
• Environmental Reset – Championing Heritage Conservation as Climate Action
• Social and Cultural Reset– Activating the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), Confronting Exclusion, and Transforming Practice
The National Trust Conference has become the place where the full spectrum of Canada’s heritage conservation community gathers to get connected & be inspired by new perspectives. Connect with your colleagues, meet your next employer, or network with the leading heritage professionals, government decision-makers, heritage NGOs, & influencers at conference sessions & group events. Earn professional learning credits from an expanding roster of professional associations.
For more information, visit the Conference Website.