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Mnjikaning Fish Weirs

...fish fence”, which is located at the narrows between Lake Simcoe and Lake Couchiching. Mnjinkaning Fish Weirs is a National Historic Site. Fish have been harvested here continuously for 5000 years. ERA worked with a team of consultants to develop an interpretive strategy for a prehistoric fish corralling site for the First Nation’s Mnjikaning Fish Fence Circle and Parks Canada....

Milton Heritage Properties Business Strategy

In May 2010, ERA Architects partnered with urbanMetrics to develop a business strategy for the Ruhl Farmstead and John Willmott Farmhouse, two mid-1800s properties located in Milton, Ontario, a town undergoing rapid change. The challenge in this project was to develop a conservation strategy of the site’s built and natural heritage while responding to Milton’s growing population and urban development....

Exploratory typo-morphological study of Île-d’Orléans

Protected since 1935, Île-d’Orléans is one of the 13 declared heritage sites, the highest heritage status given by the Quebec government in recognition of its importance as a cultural landscape, its insular character and 400 years of agricultural activity, and as a place of great symbolic value and identity. Under the revised Cultural Heritage Act, the Ministry of Culture and...

Whitehern Museum

A National Historic Site, Whitehern Historic House and Garden is the former estate of the prominent McQuesten family of Hamilton, Ontario. Built in 1848, this National Historic Site is a strong example of an urban estate. Home to three generations of the McQuesten family the estate embodies a unique mixture of Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian influences, with a significant garden...

Douglas Mental Health Institute Heritage Background Study

...continue to evolve, and the current facilities no longer adequately meet them. In view of a major redevelopment of the site in the future, the SQI mandated the team formed by Enclume and ERA to carry out a heritage, landscape and urban study of the complex, and to issue guidelines for the modernization of the institute. Through a synthesis of...

Lang Tannery

The Lang Tannery site is an industrial complex that occupies 5.5 acres on two city blocks in the designated warehouse district of the city of Kitchener. It contains approximately fifteen interconnected industrial buildings from one to five storeys in height built between c. 1896 and 1956. The Lang Tannery complex is a significant landmark. It reflects Kitchener’s industrial history of...

Child and Parent Resource Institute

The Child and Parent Resource Institute (CPRI) is a provincially operated regional resource centre in London, Ontario, that provides diagnostic assessment, consultation, education, research, and short-term treatment services for children and youth with emotional and behavioral disorders. The subject site occupies a 56-hectare parcel of land and is acknowledged for its cultural heritage significance. The majority of the buildings on...

100 Yorkville Avenue

Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital was founded on this site in 1923. In 1930, a new surgical wing was built by architects Kaminker & Richmond, and the hospital remained on this site until 1953. Subsequently it became a nurse’s residence and then a senior citizens’ home. The property was designated in 1985, but the 1930 wing was partially demolished in 1988....

Burano – Addison Motors

...Hutton and Souter Architects and constructed in 1925, the City of Toronto designated the property in December 1999. The building was methodically dismantled stone by stone, removed from the site and stored until the new super structure could be constructed. The original building was returned to the site and reconstructed exactly as it appeared previously, enveloping the new building behind....

Canada Malting Silo

The Canada Maltings Co. is a former industrial complex located at the foot of Bathurst Quay in Toronto. The site consists of two large silo structures, distribution rooms, a head house, link structures and other accessory buildings. The complex was continually developed throughout the 20th century with the earliest structures on the site dating back to 1928. The facility was...

house shielded by trees Randwood

...of the pioneering Canadian landscape architects Howard and Lorrie Dunnington-Grubb. ERA has played a key role in articulating the character of Randwood, which has faced an uncertain future since leaving the Rand family’s care. Under the leadership of a community group advocating for the site’s future, the Save Our Randwood Estate Association (SORE), ERA has contributed foundational research and planning...

Bishop’s Block

...reached an advanced state of decay. Bishop’s Block was the site of a significant archeological study that recovered over 60,000 artifacts, including ceramics, writing slates, and children’s toys. An exhibition of some of these artifacts can be viewed on site. ERA was retained by Westbank Developments Ltd. to document the building and oversee its conservation, including the dismantling and reconstruction...