The jury evaluates submissions based on how projects fit within established LACF objectives. They need to be achievable, supported and led by qualified proponents. - LACF Grants Committee
Meet the Jury for the 2023 Annual Grants Program
All annual grant proposals are adjudicated and awarded by a national jury composed of six individuals from public, and private practice with academic credentials representing the Atlantic, Quebec, Ontario, Prairie, British Columbia regions and Canada’s north.
Jury Foreman
Ed Versteeg is Instructor, Landscape Architecture, Dalhousie University and Principal, Ed Versteeg Landscape Architect. His practice spans the range from urban planning to large scale residential design projects, the common element being that much of his work culminates in built form. His work on park planning and trails has been recognized by the CSLA and ASLA with three national honour awards. Ed holds a Bachelor of Commerce (St. Mary’s), Bachelor of Design (NSCAD) and Master of Landscape Architecture (Guelph). Ed served seven years on the executive of APALA including two years as APALA representative to the board of the CSLA; he assisted with establishing the Peter Klynstra Memorial Scholarship (a joint effort of APALA and LACF). Ed joined the LACF jury in 2012 and the LACF Board in 2015. Ed has served on the Grants Committee for the past 5 years and is responsible for the evaluation system employed by the Jury.
Atlantic Provinces
Hope Parnham is a landscape architect and planner working in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Hope specializes in the field of climate change adaptation through planning and design, and is a Senior Climate Change Adaptation Policy Advisor with the Government of PEI. Hope holds a Bachelor of Science (St. Francis Xavier), Bachelor of Environmental Design (U of Manitoba) and Master of Landscape Architecture (U of Manitoba). Hope is a CSLA past-president and a founding member of the CSLA Task Force on Climate Change.
Quebec
Nicole Valois is a landscape architect and professor at the École d'urbanisme et d'architecture de paysage at the University of Montreal. She teaches landscape heritage, project methodology and workshops on urban spaces. As an Associate Researcher and the Canada Research Chair in Built Heritage, she has collaborated in several studies on landscape heritage, including the campus of the Université de Montréal and Expo ’67. She has publications by l'Université de Montréal and the University Press of Perpignan. Here recent research is partially funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), and is focused on the values of Canadian public spaces of the modern period. Nicole has been a member of numerous juries and committees, including the Canada Council for the Arts Lettres du Québec. She was recently appointed a member of the Montréal Heritage Council. Nicole has been a past recipient of LACF grants (individually and as part of collaboratives).
Ontario
John Zvonar is a graduate of the University of Manitoba (1988). Since 1992 he has focused his attention on protecting nationally-significant cultural landscapes for the federal government across Canada and abroad. These historic places are under the jurisdiction of Parks Canada, the Parliamentary Precinct in Ottawa and other federal departments such as Veterans Affairs Canada. John has long been associated with the Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation, an interdisciplinary forum for exploring and exchanging ideas about historic landscapes and their stewardship. He is also actively involved with the Cultural Landscapes committee of ICOMOS Canada and is now the voting member for Canada at the International Scientific Committee for Cultural Landscapes. John was honoured with his election to the CSLA College of Fellows in 2014 and joined the LACF jury in 2014.
Prairies
Mark Bauche is an Associate with HTFC Planning & Design in Winnipeg. An alumnus of the University of Manitoba’s Environmental Design program (2003) he has worked with HTFC for the majority of his professional career. As a landscape architect Mark has varied experience on large- and small-scale design projects in a variety of sectors across Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Northwestern Ontario, including several award winners. In 2007/08 Mark spent time abroad and gained experience in a multi-disciplinary firm in the UK before returning to Winnipeg to pick up where he left off at HTFC. Outside of his work, Mark has also been involved in volunteer design projects and is a member of the Manitoba Master Gardeners Association, where he has spent many of his volunteer hours lecturing on landscape design. Mark joined the LACF jury in 2021.
British Columbia
Cynthia Girling is a Professor in the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of British Columbia. She teaches in the architecture, landscape architecture and environmental design programs. She is a registered Landscape Architect in British Columbia and a Fellow of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects, and the American Society of Landscape Architects. Her research focuses on sustainable neighborhood scale urban design with a particular emphasis on: developing methods, metrics, tools and visualizations to inform community planning & urban design. She also conducts evaluations of new neighbourhood developments emphasizing urban form and landscape performance. She is Co-director, with Ronald Kellett, of the elementsLab, an applied urban design and environment research group located at the UBC Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability. Cynthia joined the LACF Board and jury in 2021.
Northern Territories
Karen LeGresley Hamre, principal of Avens Associates Ltd. She is a Fellow of the CSLA and professional member of Interpretation Canada. Karen has extensive project experience in the north, having worked in over 30 communities in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. She has also worked in three Canadian provinces and Germany, in various private and public sector positions. Karen has owned and operated Avens Associates Ltd., from Yellowknife since 1986, providing professional consulting services in landscape architecture, environmental and interpretive planning, and project management. Karen joined the LACF jury in 2012 and is the current LACF Secretary.
LACF thanks the Jury members for their work and their commitment.