Ontario Heritage Fairs Coordinators Wayne Hugli of Sudbury and Carol White of Kingston were presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award during the Lieutenant Governor’s Ontario Heritage Awards ceremony at Queens Park on Thursday Feb. 20.
They were recognized for more than 25 years of exceptional volunteer contribution to heritage conservation through their work with the Ontario Heritage Fairs program.
The Ontario Heritage Trust (OHT) is an agency of the Ontario Ministry of Heritage, Sport, Tourism and Culture Industries. The trust identifies, protects, promotes and conserves Ontario’s heritage.
The Lieutenant Governor’s Ontario Heritage Awards, administered by the Ontario Heritage Trust, are prestigious awards that recognize exceptional contributions to heritage conservation, environmental sustainability and biodiversity, and cultural and natural heritage. These awards are presented annually at a ceremony at Queen’s Park in Toronto
The trust conserves provincially significant cultural and natural heritage, interprets Ontario’s history, educates Ontarians of its importance in our society, and celebrates the province’s diversity. The trust envisions an Ontario where the places, landscapes, traditions and stories that embody our heritage are reflected, valued and conserved for future generations.
Carol White (executive rirector) and Wayne Hugli (treasurer) direct the Ontario Heritage Fairs program for the Ontario Heritage Fairs Association (OHFA).
As directors, White and Hugli track the fairs’ activities, organize the fairs’ community networks, gather data and report to OHFA’s executive, auditors and supporters.
The program coordinates over 20 communities representing more than 20,000 youth, annually.
This program is supported by 4,000 volunteers and thousands of work hours. White and Hugli’s leadership of the program has facilitated these opportunities for youth to make links between the past and the present, to have a voice through the sharing of heritage stories to uncover and to share and preserve local stories, histories and language.
