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Study looks to residents to provide input on significant landscapes in Woolwich and Wellesley township ALI WILSON
The Boomer Creek Pony Club held their ‘mounted meeting’ Tuesday evening at Robinson’s farm in Linwood. Members of the club, Shania Robinson (top left), Siera Morrissey (bottom left) and Michaelah Robinson (right) practiced their Prince Philip Games, vaulting skills at the trot and their hockey skills on horseback. The club is a local branch of the Canadian Pony Club in the Western Ontario Region. [ALI WILSON / THE OBSERVER]
A grassroots study led by two University of Waterloo students’ hopes to identify cultural heritage landscapes within Woolwich and Wellesley townships. The project will be used to take inventory on landscapes within the townships that residents deem significant in some regard. Rebecca Koroll, an environmental studies planning master’s student, and Chris DeGeer, also a master’s student in the school of planning, are the lead student researchers on the project. They’re asking for the public’s input to help make the project successful. “We want to know what is important to people in the townships,” she said. “We ourselves are hoping to become experts through the interviews and people that we get to talk to, because it is supposed to be a groundup approach where we are talking to people to find out what is important to them, not us picking locations and saying, ‘is this important to
you?’” Being carried out through the Heritage Resource Centre at the University of Waterloo, the study is in coordination with North Waterloo Branch of the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario, the not-for-profit organization Mitacs, the Townships of Woolwich and Wellesley and the Regional Municipality of Waterloo. “We are hoping to engage the mayor and council of each township. The idea is to make sure that we are getting representation from each,” she said. Planning regulation in Ontario directs municipalities to conserve significant cultural heritage landscapes, requiring the identification and evaluation of their significance and then determining the extent to which the community values them, she explained. With the study they are hoping to identify an inventory of CHLs, in order to help the townships with that process. LANDSCAPES | 4