We are pleased to have the following speakers present at this year’s symposium.
Raymond Frogner | National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, University of Manitoba
Raymond Frogner received a Master of Arts degree in Labour History from the University of Victoria and a Master of Archival Studies degree from the University of British Columbia. He was Private Records Archivist at the Provincial Archives of Alberta from 2000 to 2001. He was the Associate Archivist for Private Records at the University of Alberta Archives from 2001 – 2011, where he focused on Indigenous records. In 2011, he took a position as Private Records Archivist at the Royal BC Museum, focusing on colonial and Indigenous records. In July of 2016, he accepted the position of Head of Archives for the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.
Raymond’s graduate work focused on archives and Indigenous memory. He taught a course for the University of Alberta’s School of Library and Information Studies Program on Archives and Aboriginal records and has done a similar three-day workshop for the Yukon Territories Archives Association. His Archivaria article “Innocent Legal Fictions: Archival Convention and the North Saanich Treaty of 1852” won the Kaye Lamb Prize and Alan D. Ridge Award of Merit in 2011. In 2014, he published an Archivaria article on the appraisal of Aboriginal oral history in common law and archives titled, “’Lord, Save Us from the Et Cetera of the Notary’: Archival Appraisal, Local Custom, and Colonial Law”. This article won the Kaye Lamb Prize in 2016.
Theresa Rowat | The Archive of the Jesuits in Canada
Theresa Rowat has been Director of The Archive of the Jesuits in Canada since 2013 and is currently serving as President of the Réseau des Services d’archives du Québec. She has held positions with McGill University Archives, the Ontario Ministry of Culture, and (then) National Archives of Canada. She has worked extensively with iconographic and audio-visual records, as well as performing arts fonds.
Robert McIntosh | Library and Archives Canada
Robert McIntosh has been Director General of the Government Records Branch of Library and Archives Canada (LAC) since April 2016. He previously held a range of positions at LAC in government and private sector acquisition, preservation, stewardship, and public services. He started his career at LAC in 1992 as the archivist responsible for military records. These records included the 640,000 personnel files of the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War – now in the course of comprehensive digitization by LAC.
He has published widely in the fields of archival science and history. His article, “The Great War, Archives, and Modern Memory,” received the W. Kaye Lamb Award in 1999. His book, Boys in the Pits: Child Labour in Coal Mines, was published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in 2000. From 2004 to 2007, he was General Editor of Archivaria: The Journal of the Association of Canadian Archivists, during which time he oversaw the roll-out of e-Archivaria.
Prior to his arrival at Library and Archives Canada, McIntosh studied at the Universities of Alberta, Strasbourg, Carleton, and Ottawa.
Mary McIntosh | Government Records Service, BC Ministry of Finance
Mary McIntosh has held the position of Senior Archivist, Government Records Service, since 2011. In this role, she leads a team responsible for the development of records classification and retention schedules (ARCS and ORCS), archival appraisal, and advisory services. Mary has over 20 years’ experience in archives and records management in the British Columbia government.
George Blood | George Blood, L.P.
George Blood graduated from the University of Chicago (1983) with a Bachelor of Arts in Music Theory. Actively recording live concerts (from student recitals to opera and major symphony orchestras) since 1982, Mr. Blood has documented over 4,000 live events. From 1984 through 1989, he was a producer at WFMT-FM, and he has recorded and edited some 600 nationally syndicated radio programs, mostly of The Philadelphia Orchestra. Mr. Blood has also recorded or produced over 250 CDs, 5 of which have been nominated for Grammy Awards.=
Each month, George Blood Audio/Video/Film digitizes thousands of hours of audio and moving image collections in addition to migrating obsolete computer media formats. Staff are also engaged in actively researching workflow, best practices, metadata, authentication, and interchangeability of digital information. Mr. Blood is an active teacher and presenter at conferences, sharing his company’s findings with members of the trade and collections managers. He serves on the technical committees of IASA and ARSC and on standards committees for AES-57 and MXF AS-07. He is also a writer for IASA TC 06.
Mr. Blood and his wife, Martha, have five children and four grandchildren. An unapologetic preservationist, Mr. Blood lives with his family in Philadelphia, where they are renovating a 1768 house with an original interior.
Terry O’Riordan | Provincial Archives of Alberta
Terry O’Riordan is the audiovisual conservator at the Provincial Archives of Alberta, where he has worked to increase the digital preservation capabilities of the audiovisual labs.
Christina Kovac | The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
Criss Kovac is the supervisor of the Motion Picture Preservation Lab at the National Archives and Records Administration. Over the course of the last decade she has overseen many film preservation projects, including Nine From Little Rock, A Year Toward Tomorrow, With the Marines at Tarawa, Let There Be Light, The March, and The Negro Soldier–a US Army documentary intended to encourage African American men to enlist. She is currently working on the digital restoration of Eva Braun’s home movies. She is an active participant in the Association of Moving Image Archivists and the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative, and she is a member of the International Federation of Film Archives Technical Committee. She holds a degree from Oberlin College in History and from The Nottingham Trent University in Cinema Studies; she also received certification from The L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation in 2002.