Hal Kalman Receives Leger Award
Hal Kalman has been awarded the 2009 Gabrielle Leger Award for Lifetime Achievement by the Heritage Canada Foundation. The award was presented in Toronto on September 25.
Dr. Kalman’s reputation as a heritage conservation practitioner, theorist, writer and educator is internationally recognized. When he opened his practice in Ottawa in 1975 he became Canada’s first professional heritage consultant.
Hal has introduced many innovations to heritage conservation practice during his career, including Canada’s first objective process for determining the historic value of buildings in the widely-adopted Evaluation of Historic Buildings in 1979. He has been involved in more than 1,000 professional projects in Canada and abroad.
Hal introduced the subject of heritage conservation into the architectural history curriculum at the University of British Columbia, where he taught from 1968 to 1975. Presently he teaches at the Universities of Victoria and Hong Kong.
One of Hal’s personal missions has been to raise public awareness of heritage conservation. He has appeared regularly on CBC Radio and the Homes by Design TV series. His long-running column in Canadian Heritage magazine, his many articles in Canadian journals, and his conservation guidebooks have been immensely popular. His award-winning A History of Canadian Architecture remains a standard 15 years after its publication.
Hal has received a number of other awards including: 

• British Columbia Heritage Award (2006)
• Sir John A. Macdonald Prize for History, Canadian Historical Association
• City of Vancouver Heritage Awards
• Heritage BC Awards
Dr. Kalman has been active on the boards of Canada’s most influential non-governmental organizations, including the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada, the Association for Preservation Technology, ICOMOS Canada, the Heritage Canada Foundation and the Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals. He currently sits on the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.
